From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) In-Reply-To: <699553fd641e4d70ce360ad04b2f8ff6@quanstro.net> References: <699553fd641e4d70ce360ad04b2f8ff6@quanstro.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <5A61E36C-CDCF-4198-BE95-22EF3F66B79C@telus.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Paul Lalonde Subject: Re: [9fans] gnupg or pgp for plan9? Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:56:37 -0800 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 24aec524-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEKgV1pJeHo/Fbu1wRApWpAJ4hjUmIA+eZAdnq9cg11N0whyAS7ACgilM4 zmNi36AKWK0PjX6Xp+t2TuI= =QSbC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----