The bit about Amazon is worrying, Chuck: that company gets everywhere (and
doesn't pay taxes . . .)
But the bit below is what happened to the Web when IE was developed, coming
late to the party.
I don't agree with the "brilliant by naive" bit, though. I'd describe them
slightly differently ;-)
Chris
On 30 Jan 2013, at 22:27, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> As I was reading this I was thinking back to my early OS/2 development
> experience with Microsoft. We had a system test case that was not
> working for some reason. We were convinced our test code was correct so
> the problem had to be in a particular interface whose development
> belonged to Microsoft. When I tried to explain the problem to the
> 20-something developer he said: "Yeah, it doesn't work because I
> changed the interface." You did what? What about the design
> specification that says it's supposed to be such and so? "Oh, I didn't
> like that so I changed it." But this specification has been published
> to application developers. What are they going to do when their code
> doesn't work any more. "Well, let them change their code".
>
> Brilliant kids but so, so naive.
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