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I actually messed up a global accounting question...blasted!
I HATE WHEN THAT HAPPENS!
But let's have it now and not test day, right?
Dave I used the Variable Grouping template because each element can belong to more than one of the groups. why did you use the static grouping?
Hey! Two things:
1. It doesn't matter what template you use. There's not a right or wrong; only maybe a more- or less-efficient. Use the template you love!
2. The VG template is a variant of MRO, right? The idea with the VG template is to impose some order on those most chaotic of games. In this game, the fact that there are always two people per item makes the imposition for me. Since the game is already more structured, I can allow that structure to dicate my diagram.
Make sense?
d
Oh good grief. That's frustrating, but it's fixed now!
What has happened (in case you're interested) is that we've used a video converter to make the clips viewable from multiple browsers. Unfortunately, that converter sometimes aborts the conversion for unknown reasons (spite?), which wouldn't be that big a deal, except when it screws up, IT DOESN'T GIVE AN ERROR MESSAGE.
It just spits out the incomplete video and then tries to pretend that everything is normal. So, we don't even know anything is wrong.
Perhaps needless to say, we have now switched to a different conversion scheme.
I'm very sorry for the inconvenience! Thanks for your patience; please let me know when you run into any kind of trouble.
Godspeed,
d
Hi djbaronj,
This has been fixed for all browsers.
Hey Dave,
I think I saw an explaination in one of your earlier videos but I can't find it now. Is there a reason you don't like to use a double sided arrow for [if and only if] statements? I know it's a matter of preference, but your justifications of the little things are usually meaningful/helpful in some way.
Hey, Joe,
I find that a having and using a standard convention makes me faster: I don't use any processing power thinking about the operational aspect of whatever job I'm doing; instead, if I do the work the same way every time, I can implement a process quickly and thoughtlessly.
If I were to use double-sided arrows, that would break down my process. Sometimes, I'd read conditional symbols from right-to-left. I just know there would be times when I would forget to read the right-to-left, or possibly there'd be times when I'd incorrectly read right-to-left where I shouldn't be doing so at all.
So I feel more confident, thoughtless, and automatic if I always read from left-to-right, every single time without exception.
But that's just, like, my opinion.
d
Hello Dave!
Happy New Year!
I draw this as multi-row ordering form. As you said in video I understood why you drew this as static grouping for saving time. Suddenly I'm curious about what is criterion to decide it like this because I saw you drew static grouping question as static grouping form in video.
By the way I l like your T-shirt printed lovely phrase :)
The game has asked us to assign groups of movers to furniture, so the grouping template seemed appropriate to me!
I like the sentiment of that shirt, but have come to be troubled by the (unintended, but nevertheless present) misogynist undertones implied by calling something you control your "bitch."
We live longer, and sometimes hopefully we learn.