> I have no idea if this guy is taking advantage of the Baltimore PD or not. Neither do you. Never mentioned this. Never said boo one way or another. Read wha

> I have no idea if this guy is taking advantage of the Baltimore PD or not. Neither do you. Never mentioned this. Never said boo one way or another. Read what I actually wrote and not what you wanted me to write. I said nothing about whether the cost is justified or not. I said the cost comes from getting someone who can program in Lotus Notes. That's all I said about it. It is an unreasonable assumption to think that who you're building for makes the actual task more difficult. > I agree. Then what's up? You're agreeing with the only thing I'm actually saying. You had one guy saying it was trivial and another saying it was very difficult because it was for the police. I was saying it was neither. That it was equivalent in difficulty to another data management task. If anything people are downplaying the logistics involved in modern retail. Data management is a serious business. > My position is you're pretending like you know this guy's business. You don't. And his business isn't dealing with the police department. Because the guy I responded to isn't the guy in the article. So he doesn't know the business either. You are trying to chastise me for making an assumption when you assume I don't have experience, but no one else has claimed any experience in this matter either so their claims are just as invalid as mine according to your standard. They are also pretending to know the business. And so are you. And by the way accidental and necessary difficulties are covered by Fred Brooks's essay, "No Silver Bullet". Accidental difficulties are difficulties we created. By choice of platform, technology, methodology, etc. So the system being a labyrinthine mess of Lotus Notes code is definitely an accidental difficulty. A necessary difficulty is something about the task itself that's inherently wicked.