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Date:	Fri, 1 Aug 2003 10:03:36 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Re: Warpstock 2003 Presentation

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Steven Levine wrote:
>
> >the "disappearing data" was cause for apoplexy.
>
> In hindsight, it was just hiding. What I do find
> interesting is that it took you so long to find a
> way to make the data reappear. . . . It sort of
> implies that you must have been doing the same
> thing over and over rather than trying variations
> to see what the application could do.

I was "looking in the wrong spot" (thanks Indiana Jones). I was
thinking in terms of databases, keys, date ranges and programmers
throwing away incomplete data records (a problem I'd already encountered
with a different software product by the same company). It just never
occurred to me that the problem was due to the stupid display system.

- Peter

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