+1. Thanks !
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> Début du message réexpédié :
> 
> De: Bob Sneidar <[email protected]>
> Objet: Rép : [OT] Good Read/View on The Uncertainty Of The Future
> Date: 17 septembre 2015 19:02:45 UTC+2
> À: How to use LiveCode <[email protected]>
> Répondre à: How to use LiveCode <[email protected]>
> 
> Excellent post. I think this mail list actually is one of the great examples 
> of collaboration I have yet seen. We have graphic guys, core developers, 
> database guys, interface guys all cooperating and communicating and helping 
> one another, but not for a specific company, but rather for the love of the 
> development environment itself.
> 
> I also think that Livecode is a fairly good example of what he is talking 
> about. It provides us with a series of objects that can be put together as we 
> see fit. Of course, dealing with the issue of being compatible with current 
> and future devices is, as the author concedes, an ongoing one, and while 
> improvements can and perhaps should be made to the geometry manager (as an 
> example) the problem of open scaling is really one that if you think about it 
> an extremely complex one.
> 
> I don't see how we can ever get away from special case development to be 
> compatible with all potential devices, even from a web based perspective, as 
> powerful as the tools presently available and soon to be available are. We 
> will never be able to design for a full sized monitor on a high end 
> workstation and expect to scale to a watch on someone's wrist, or vise versa 
> for that matter. The problem is not just one of scale, but of ability. There 
> are simply some things that cannot be done on a watch based browser.
> 
> But I really like the bit:
> 
> Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss 
> people. Henry Thomas 
> Buckle<http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/11/18/great-minds/>
> 
> I have expressed to up and coming IT people who are struggling with the vast 
> amount of information and learning that seems to be so oppressive, that the 
> trick is not learning everything about a particular system, but rather 
> understanding the system itself. What are the problems the system is 
> addressing? How do the components of the system interact with each other? 
> When I went through Naval training on the radar system I was to operate and 
> maintain many years ago, their approach to the training was top down, 
> starting with the major components, the operator console, the director, the 
> CW and pulse transmitters etc. Then they went into each major subsystem and 
> broke that down until we were looking at individual circuit boards. Because 
> we got that overview first, we were able to understand each subsystem and how 
> each component integrated with the whole, and why.
> 
> I read in a really good book once, "Get knowledge. And with it, get 
> understanding."
> 
> Bob S
> 
> 
> On Sep 16, 2015, at 15:42 , Scott Rossi 
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
> A video with transcript by web designer/consultant Brad Frost.  The talk
> is targeted at web developers, but the concepts are applicable to any
> coder or application developer.
> 
> I Have No Idea What The Hell I Am Doing
> http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/i-have-no-idea-what-the-hell-i-am-doing/
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design
> 
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