Xaprb » Consulting http://www.xaprb.com/blog Stay curious! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:58:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Life as a consultant: my crooked arm for a pillow http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/09/03/life-as-a-consultant-my-crooked-arm-for-a-pillow/ http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/09/03/life-as-a-consultant-my-crooked-arm-for-a-pillow/#comments Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:52:59 +0000 Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/09/03/life-as-a-consultant-my-crooked-arm-for-a-pillow/ Further Reading:]]> Sometimes there are funny communication styles between people who are geographically distributed and working together all the time. Recently one of our team members echoed back to me some answers I gave over a chat session:

Q: Is it OK for me to buy quad-core servers?
A: The old man walks slow but carries much, whilst the young boy runs without a care.

Okay, okay maybe I wasn’t very clear in my message, and maybe it was just a little bit Confucian. Here’s what I actually said:

Xaprb: 8 cores may be OK for some workloads
Xaprb: high-concurrency, not so good
Xaprb: discounts, yes

But I assure you, I would never write to a client this way. Only my colleagues.

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