With the tips she recommended, you can save more than 2 hours of your developer time, which you can, of course, use for another activities, such as Freecel, or Sudoku.Wouldn't that be theft? ;-)
IMHO this whole episode is a great shame. The actual technical content to which you refer seems quite clever: if only their dispute with NN had been allowed to rest when they said it would, the Ks would be riding high. As it is, the episode has all the elements of a classical tragedy.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
