Unfortunately, sometimes you inherit a system and have to try and work it whether you agree with it or not....
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----- Original Message -----
From: Ralph Tingle
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 8:16 PM
Subject: RE: [sailwave] KISS
The trouble is that I quite often need to remind myself of this principle & get some very odd looks
from my wife when she sees draft SIs on my desk with KISS written all over them ;-)))
I find Keep It Simple & Short is a good alternative
(but judging by my emails sometimes, fail miserably!!)
Regards
Ralph
-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Bolgen [mailto:martin@seilforening.no]
Sent: 08 July 2005 19:37
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [sailwave] KISS
Thanks Mark!
>From now on I will KISS as often as I can!
(I've learned it another way: Keep It Simple, as Simple as possible)
/Martin
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Townsend
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 8:16 PM
Subject: RE: [sailwave] KISS
One philosophy that we have had at my club for several years was where
possible to stick to the ISAF rules. At one point we believed ourselves to
be smarter than ISAF and as such would modify the scoring system, starting
systems, etc. to meet our special needs and provide a better solution. In
retrospect it probably wasn't better and was simply different.
In looking at some of the issues we are asking Colin to include I am
concerned that we are including scoring options that are different, but not
necessarily better than that which can be achieved "out of the rule book".
Always think Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS), when you discover that the
scoring system that you dreamt up one winters evening doesn't score
correctly in Sailwave, ask yourseleves
is it better or different! End of soap box....
Colin, thanks for all the hard work and a great scoring program. Hope your
sailing season is going well.
Mark Townsend
s_mark_townsend@hotmail.com
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