From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2009-10-04T03:18:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Exceptional Rails Developer

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 8:18 PM, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:
> On Friday 02 October 2009 07:15:36 am Aldric Giacomoni wrote:
>> > As an obsessive problem solver myself this baffles me, but it seems to
>> > be the normal human condition. The moral of the story being, there's
>> > no place for normal human beings in software development ;)
>>
>> I've come to accept that "How does this work?" is not the first question
>> that most people ask. Usually, the first thing people say is "I want to
>> do this". The difference in mindset is astounding :)
>
> I wish I had people like that.
>
> Usually, the "I want to do this" already assumes a particular way that it
> should work. No one ever asks "I want to send mail to a list of people on a
> regular basis. What's the best way to do that?"
>
> No, they ask "I want to do mail merge using Outlook and Excel. What's the best
> way to do that?"
>
> That immediately cuts off what is truly the best way, which starts with,
> "Don't use Outlook or Excel."

So the answer to the first question is "Mu!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(negative)

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