Re: [9fans] gnupg or pgp for plan9?

[Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net>]

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I should have said "time-pressured" not lazy; but yes, bang on.

Paul

On 28-Mar-06, at 7:17 PM, quanstro@quanstro.net wrote:

> i don't personally know any lazy engineers, but i do know quite a
> few that are scared of
> being the scapegoat.
>
> i worked on a big full-text search project that never wrote its own
> search engine.  we used OpenText pat, pls/cpl (later bought by
> aol), excalibur,
> inktomi hosted search and probablly a few that have been
> forgotten.  these interfaces
> were very difficult to write because what we needed from a full-
> text search engine
> was never what was provided, they all had major bugs and performace
> was generally very
> poor.
>
> yet -- though i'm convinced it would have been easier, and the
> results better --
> nobody had the guts to write an engine.
>
> - erik
>
> On Tue Mar 28 20:08:59 CST 2006, plalonde@telus.net wrote:
>>
>> It happens because engineers are too lazy or scared to try to
>> understand the code they are modifying, and a layer seems safer.  My
>> case was 3 years of 2 code teams.  Imagine 10 years of open-source-
>> like distributed development :-(
>>
>> Paul
>>

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