I can't be everything to everyone. Send me your specs.
If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
I've learned about the inflation range situation. Obviously with our footballs being inflated to the 12.5-pound range, any deflation would then take us under that specification limit. Knowing that now, in the future we will certainly inflate the footballs above that low level to account for any possible change during the game.
I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind he is.
The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.
In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.
If I know what to spec, and I can measure it, and there are no unpredictable interdependencies between what you do and what I must do in response, then an economist would say that is sufficient information for a market to emerge between you and me.
All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.
