Re: On contexts, rules, flexibility and purity

While I also wishful-thinking-wise agree with everything said on dragonchild's side, I have to cite the Bigger Picture, agreeing with jZed, and say that giving the Users their data takes precedence, whatever kludge it takes. We must always remember that our job is to serve the larger community. Our programming/database admin/chipbuilding/whatever does not exist within a vaccuum, and the world will remember Al Gore's movie long after the database server his website comes from is returned to silica dust.

Don Wilde
"There's more than one level to any answer."

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Re^2: On contexts, rules, flexibility and purity by gloryhack (Deacon) on Apr 14, 2007 at 04:17 UTC
++E3 I don't know the full situation that prompted the short flurry of nodes, but if the organization in question is a charitable one with real lives at stake, screw the business needs and help the people one way or another. I, personally, could not look a child in the face and say, "Well, kid, ya know, I think it'd be nice if you could sleep in a bed under a roof tonight, but the database server is down right now and our internet service provider is unresponsive. Here's a newspaper you can cover up in when it gets cold". I will now spare the reader my rant about short sighted executives moving on to equally green pastures after their blunders have cost a great number of working men and women their homes.	[reply]

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by gloryhack (Deacon) on Apr 14, 2007 at 04:17 UTC

I don't know the full situation that prompted the short flurry of nodes, but if the organization in question is a charitable one with real lives at stake, screw the business needs and help the people one way or another. I, personally, could not look a child in the face and say, "Well, kid, ya know, I think it'd be nice if you could sleep in a bed under a roof tonight, but the database server is down right now and our internet service provider is unresponsive. Here's a newspaper you can cover up in when it gets cold".

I will now spare the reader my rant about short sighted executives moving on to equally green pastures after their blunders have cost a great number of working men and women their homes.

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