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On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Costello, Roger L. <costello@m...> wrote: GMail doesn't have rotating .sigs, but you can see mine at http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/signatures
Software is king! But as in most absolute monarchies, the taxes are high and the benefits doubtful.
Data design is only needed to the extent that you document and define what it contains; other than that, do whatever you want. Software design is important, data design is not. Data designs like the hierarchical file system are so powerful and useful that nobody would even think of scrapping them and going back to purely flat disk directories (or for that matter, a system in which all programs have their own individual tracks on the disk which they use exactly as they like). We pay the cost of design, ideally, just when the costs of non-coordination outweigh the advantages of non-coordination.
Arguing that one data design is better than another is a waste of time and, in fact, it's meaningless. Spend minimal time on data design and create great software designs. It's shortsighted. It assumes that data is ephemeral, but in general data outlives software. The arrogance of kings arises out of their belief that their people were made for them, and not they for their people.
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