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Meeting Notes 071213 Telecon SDS Windows Application Design Record M

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0803 -    ..
0804 - Summary/Objective
0805 -
080501 - Follow up ref SDS 21 0000.
080502 -
080503 -
080504 -
080505 -
080506 -
080507 -
080509 -  ..
0806 -
0807 -
0808 - Progress
0809 -
080901 - Transformation SDS Steady Exposure Relentless Pressure Good Practice
080902 -
080903 - Received a letter from Gary with copies to Morris and to Jack Park,
080904 - and which incorporated his SDS record reporting the telecon with
080905 - Morris on 071212. ref SDS 21 WD8J
080907 -  ..
080908 - For some reason the "Subject:" of Gary's letter refers to "Open
080909 - standards and open source," which is not mentioned in the letter.
080910 - This is part of entropy that degrades order in the record cited by
080911 - Jack Park on 010908. ref SDS 11 UV4H  Entropy degrading management
080912 - productivity toward confusion and failure was reported in the USAFIT
080913 - study, reviewed on 970707. ref SDS 5 0611
080915 -  ..
080916 - On 001126 Eugene Kim proposed using diligence to apply existing
080917 - Microsoft technology, ref SDS 9 4E3X, rather than learning Knowledge
080918 - Management by using SDS. ref SDS 9 QW8I  Eugene's point 6 proposed
080919 - conforming subject fields to document content. ref SDS 9 M36R
080920 -
080921 -     [On 071222 Morris used the same subject to ask about SDS essential
080922 -     features. ref SDS 22 PX5H
080924 -      ..
080925 -     [On 080108 post script recommends conforming "subject" of
080926 -     documents to the content. ref SDS 23 WX7Q
080928 -  ..
080929 - Gary's effort today incorporating SDS records into email demonstrates
080930 - deliverables of Communication Metrics to an engineer attempting to
080931 - develop a new version of SDS.  On 071212 Morris asked for an
080932 - explanation of "SDS records," rather than examine records to correlate
080933 - explanation with experience. ref SDS 21 KO4F  Gary has noted
080934 - previously the need for persistant exposure that helps transform
080935 - "funny" ideas in the proposal to NSF on SDS tools for good management,
080936 - noted by Morris' colleague at Intel on 990713, ref SDS 8 1767, and
080937 - further converts support to "work intelligently" that seems "alien"
080938 - and "foreign," noted by another Intel colleague at that time,
080939 - ref SDS 8 2150, into useful, productive, and enlightened capabilities.
080940 - Transforming perceptions of "crummy" into "good" ideas has been a
080941 - longstanding issue in high tech, reported on 960612. ref SDS 3 1368
080942 - It took a long time for Intel management to recognize that
080943 - microprocessors Intel developed were useful, reported on 960304.
080944 - ref SDS 2 245H
080946 -  ..
080947 - Putting SDS records in email supports Morris' recent objection to
080948 - links, renewing complaints on 990712, ref SDS 7 5837, about uniform
080949 - distribution of precision access to everything in the right place at
080950 - the right time.  Links in SDS records on 980405, ref SDS 6 3990,
080951 - solved Morris earlier objection on 960721 that there was no access to
080952 - links in printed SDS records. ref SDS 4 3230
080954 -  ..
080955 - On 010425 Morris described self-evident benefits of timely access as a
080956 - "utopia" compared to other methods. ref SDS 10 EP7F  This was echoed a
080957 - few months ago on 071006 by Paula at Kaiser, who described instant
080958 - access in SDS as "amazing" compared to Knowledge Management tools at
080959 - Kaiser. ref SDS 18 Q969  On 071126 Paula reported continuing failure to
080960 - obtain information for her work from Kaiser and from UCSF, and got
080961 - what was needed from clicking linsk in SDS. ref SDS 20 TH8L
080963 -  ..
080964 - Despite advantages of speed and precision, in the past year Morris has
080965 - given up on links, at least for SDS.  He recently tried clicking links
080966 - Gary provided on tools to document SDS development, and was
080967 - discouraged that links in that case failed.
080969 -  ..
080970 - Maintaining exposure to SDS records empowers people to discover in
080971 - their own time benefits of connecting cause and effect that yields the
080972 - power of knowledge, reported on 040312 citing the "locality principle"
080973 - presenting a scientific explanation of "knowledge." ref SDS 16 YH4G
080974 - Strategy helping people transform work practices to implement the
080975 - power of knowledge was related on 040102 reviewing Gary's work with
080976 - SDS during 2003. ref SDS 15 WI3H  Gary cited this strategy on 030504.
080977 - ref SDS 13 9X62  He followed up on 031211 with research on a theory of
080978 - continuous exposure to changes attitudes toward good management like
080979 - relentless pressure changes the landscape of geology. ref SDS 14 PE5Y
080980 - This supplemented Gary's powerful letter on 011210 explaining
080981 - persistence is essential to help people improve. ref SDS 12 R66K
080983 -  ..
080984 - Curiously, links in the SDS record Summary are not active.  This gives
080985 - the appearance of SDS but stripped of power and speed.  Clicking on
080986 - links goes nowhere, and so is misleading.  This presents an oddity of
080987 - working on a project which has a primary aim of making links fast and
080988 - easy to apply the power of knowledge, yet delivering links that don't
080989 - work to a person who objects to linking,
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080994 -  ..
080995 - Moving from DOS to Windows Tricky Maintain Response Usability
080996 -
080997 - Gary explains challenge migrating efficient DOS technologies into
080998 - Windows applications without degrading usability essential for
080999 - productivity, discussed with Morris on 071212. ref SDS 21 IF4I  He
081000 - reports that Wordperfect took several iterations, and Maxthink
081001 - efficient usability was difficult to deliver in a Windows application.
081002 - Gary says today in part...
081003 -
081004 -       The MaxThink outliner in DOS is a very nice tool.  In Windows it
081005 -       is a dog, even though, nominally, the interface is identical (it
081006 -       isn't quite).  Also, the new files are no longer plain text, so
081007 -       no processing of them is really feasible, which is not good.
081009 -  ..
081010 - This aligns with Gary's letter on 041111. ref SDS 17 OL9F
081012 -  ..
081013 - Goals for integrated, ergonomic design to increase productivity was
081014 - considered during the meeting on 071113 citing Mike Poremba's report
081015 - on SDS responsiveness and efficient usability that he found is not
081016 - available in Windows applications. ref SDS 19 V45N
081018 -  ..
081019 - Would be easier to complete this record with access to construct
081020 - connections into Gary's actual record.
081022 -  ..
081023 - Gary discusses Morris' planning to design records with flexible fields
081024 - and without using line numbers to identify field types from the
081025 - discussion on 071212. ref SDS 21 GI9I  Gary says in part at line
081026 - 060752...
081027 -
081028 -        Morris envisions a single data structure that is a hierarchy of
081029 -        elements with each element having an arbitrary set of tags.
081030 -
081031 -            Essentially each element has a set of tags as a template
081032 -            and an instance has tag - value pairs.
081034 -  ..
081035 - Gary explains at line 060761 Morris' proposal on 071212 to combine
081036 - work product with program code loaded into memory, similar to email
081037 - parograms. ref SDS 21 058J  Gary says in part beginning at line
081038 - 060761....
081039 -
081040 -        Morris wants to keep the entire data structure in memory
081041 -        rather than managing disk access.  This approach will certainly
081042 -        simplify the initial implementation.
081043 -
081044 -           [On 071222 Morris commented that putting everything in
081045 -           memory may be a problem. ref SDS 22 TM6U
081047 -  ..
081048 - Gary addresses Morris' request on 071212 for an explanation of an SDS
081049 - "record." ref SDS 21 KO4F  At that time on 071212, ref SDS 21 863H,
081050 - cited prior work on 890523 explaining flexible structure. ref SDS 1
081051 - P13O  Complementarity between SDS structures and functions was also
081052 - cited from work on 890523. ref SDS 1 LV59
081054 -  ..
081055 - Gary says in part at line 060803...
081056 -
081057 -        An SDS Record is a user-defined unit of information that
081058 -        represents an event, idea, thought process, or other focused
081059 -        activity.
081060 -
081061 -             [On 071222 Morris requests essential SDS features.
081062 -             ref SDS 22 3V35
081064 -              ..
081065 -             [On 071222 functions for SDS features are explained.
081066 -             ref SDS 22 6P9J
081068 -              ..
081069 -             [On 071222 Gary describes SDS record identification and
081070 -             explains 7 essential features. ref SDS 22 PA6P
081072 -         ..
081073 -        An SDS record is identified to the system by a user id and a
081074 -        creation timestamp to the second.  The Schedule and Diary are
081075 -        presented sorted by the timestamp.
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081078 -        An SDS Record has a user-supplied title that allows human
081079 -        recognition of a specific record within the time-ordered index.
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