Comments on: If I could have *anything* http://eternallyoptimistic.com/2008/02/28/if-i-could-have-anything/ Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:34:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: John http://eternallyoptimistic.com/2008/02/28/if-i-could-have-anything/comment-page-1/#comment-341 John Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:18:15 +0000 http://eternaloptimist.wordpress.com/?p=248#comment-341 The key is not to have a sunset date, but to make each version of software so wildly incompatible with all other versions that its documentation cannot be mistaken for that of another version. "Hmm, config files written in Klingon... that's version 3.2." The key is not to have a sunset date, but to make each version of software so wildly incompatible with all other versions that its documentation cannot be mistaken for that of another version. “Hmm, config files written in Klingon… that’s version 3.2.”

]]> By: Robert Richardson http://eternallyoptimistic.com/2008/02/28/if-i-could-have-anything/comment-page-1/#comment-342 Robert Richardson Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:29:08 +0000 http://eternaloptimist.wordpress.com/?p=248#comment-342 Ain't it the truth. Especially when you're just digging in to some area of inquiry that's new to you. The trick to having a sunset capability lies in the prior document knowing when the latter document has superceded it, right? I guess for tech stuff you have release numbers, but then how do you know what's happened when LID combines forces with OpenID and the numbers switch to a different sequence? Time for a 2.0 Yahoo that distributes the task of organizing the sequencing of the latest memes? Count me in. Robert/CSI Ain’t it the truth. Especially when you’re just digging in to some area of inquiry that’s new to you.

The trick to having a sunset capability lies in the prior document knowing when the latter document has superceded it, right? I guess for tech stuff you have release numbers, but then how do you know what’s happened when LID combines forces with OpenID and the numbers switch to a different sequence? Time for a 2.0 Yahoo that distributes the task of organizing the sequencing of the latest memes? Count me in.

Robert/CSI

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