OrphanWilde comments on Open Thread, January 1-15, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: OrphanWilde 25 January 2013 02:10:19PM 0 points [-]

In practice the two are, in my line of work, very difficult to separate. The what is almost always the how. But both, out of practical necessity. When the client insists on a particular implementation, that's the implementation you go with.

Comment author: whowhowho 25 January 2013 02:16:10PM 0 points [-]

I would assume that's high-level -- "use Oracle, not MySQL"

Comment author: OrphanWilde 25 January 2013 04:40:35PM 0 points [-]

That's part of it, but no, that's not what I'm referring to. Client necessities are client necessities.

"Encryption and file delivery need to be in separate process flows" would be closer. (This sounds high-level, but in the scripting language I do most of my work in, both of these are atomic operations.)