[Sigia-l] "Who Really Turns Off JavaScript?"

[Listera]

Stewart Dean:
 
> That's all technical detail.

As a consultant who has lost tens of of thousands of dollars and a number of
projects by insisting not ever to work with IT depts or get technology
involved until a prototype was done over the years, it's purely ironic that
we're having this discussion. But I'm trying not to open a can of worms
about this that has been the subject of so many threads on this list.

I'll reiterate the narrow point which you have glossed over: Knowing about
technology and implementing it are two *different* things. In the examples I
gave, a lot of time and money could have *easily* been saved by
understanding the technological barriers that rendered them impossible.

Your approach is to let some programmer tell you much later down the process
that it is, so that you can go back and forth to compromise and redo it. My
advice is that if you already had an understanding that a concept is a
non-starter because it's not implementable given a project's resources or
technical barriers, there's no reason to waste time on it and wait for a
compromise. After all, bad choices and going down blind alleys, does take
time and resources away from pursuing more optimal choices. There's no free
lunch. Not knowing it can give you agita.

---- 
Ziya

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For when you've run out of your own ideas and context.