http://mndoci.disqus.com/At the interface of science and computingenMon, 17 Mar 2008 21:32:15 -0000http://mndoci.com/blog/2008/03/16/we-need-more-leap/#comment-1308979<p>Absolutely agree that developers should educate consumers. Part of the problem is that consumers are used to behemoth application suites (think MS Office), which try to do everything and as a result, do no one thing well. At the other extreme is the UNIX/Linux philosophy: many small tools/libraries, each of which are very good at one task, which you chain together (the original pipeline) to achieve larger tasks. The problem is that consumers don't care about computing philosophy - they want stuff that resembles what they know.</p><p>I've developed a few web apps for biologists and I often hear "it's great - but could it do this too?" And this...oh, and maybe this. It's good to learn how to say "it could, but it's not going to and here's why" :)</p>NeilMon, 17 Mar 2008 21:32:15 -0000