Opportunity Cost

posted by  mneon (8)  15 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

Back when I started blogging, I had a go-around with Pierre Igot. I'm not going to rehash it, but I think the best summary of the entire affair can be found here.

During that discussion, I made the mistake of bringing up the concept of "opportunity cost." The mistake wasn't so much that the concept didn't apply to the discussion. Rather, my mistake was in believing that Pierre and some of the other folks in his echo chamber would understand what I was talking about.

So, from time to time, one of t