From: Doug Sutherland (wearable_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 2002-03-08 05:09:46
Hi Jim,
> Is that a picture of you?
Yeah, those pics and videos are me.
> It looks like you are left eye dominant? Is that true?
> That would explain the artistic creative temperament.
I have no idea if I am left eye dominant. I am one of the
rare right brain poets who also is bent on engineering,
although as you can see, I like to 'paint' with the tech.
I still remember you commenting (as I smiled inside) when
you noted the difference between Maxwell Cade left-brained
logic, reason, and pure science vs Anna Wise on the right
side with more talk of intuition and such. The left brain
definitely has its purpose, but there is a lot of power in
the right too if you give up the 'need' to know all of the
answers. That is also where a lot of innovation is born.
> Did you ever get Jim Peters code to compile on windows?
Sorry Jim, I got completely lost in other projects but I do
plan to proceed on windows very soon, hopefully I will try
a bit tomorrow. BTW Jim I see a lot of value in doing what
you say, as in just getting something working. I spent
about 18 hours a day for a full year to do all of this ...
http://java.sun.com/features/2000/06/jeniuses.html
All of it was done in Meissner style, plug in that soldering
iron, fire up the compiler, put the coffee on and go wild.
We did a LOT, earthquake monitor and weather and pollution
monitoring, appliance control over the net, mobile robotics,
remote monitoring and control, alarms sent over the net, etc.
BUT the code was a MESS, it was NOT a solid foundation like
Rob Sacks described. It was not all a waste of effort, as
much was learned, but most of the code was simply not usable
for a real system to spend a lot more time working on. Since
then I have gone back to square one and started over. Yes I
agree that something is better than just talk re software,
but I've been in the software biz for about 13 years, and
the MOST important part is analysis and design, this
includes not one bit of programming. In fact, truth is, the
programming is the easy part. Getting a good design, a model
of the objects and functions and data etc is the ONLY way to
make it flexible enough to change later on.
-- Doug
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