When a client asks me for a useless feature...
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http://thecodinglove.com/post/44230865210/when-a-client-asks-me-for-a-useless-feature[^] What is YOUR reaction to such requests? :laugh:
Per ardua ad astra, per ignem vincimus! Kakos Bros Solutions > How to Develop a Chess Program for Dummies > Programming from Commodore to Intel
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http://thecodinglove.com/post/44230865210/when-a-client-asks-me-for-a-useless-feature[^] What is YOUR reaction to such requests? :laugh:
Per ardua ad astra, per ignem vincimus! Kakos Bros Solutions > How to Develop a Chess Program for Dummies > Programming from Commodore to Intel
Palavos wrote:
What is YOUR reaction to such requests?
To immediately shake my head, while appearing traumatized, and to mutter things like:
"oh my god, that means we'll have add another level of abstraction to the interface's indirection of message-passing in the MVVM framework,"
but, then, to sit-up straight, and look the client straight in the eye, and say, confidently: of course we can do this, but I will need you to sign-off, now, on an increase of ... fill in the blank here with how much extra you think you can get away with ... $, in order to do it within our agreed-upon time-table." yours, Bill
"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough."
Niels Bohr's comment to Wolfgang Pauli, after Pauli presented Heisenberg's and Pauli's nonlinear field theory of elementary particles, at Columbia University, 1958.