Re:How becoming a pilot made me a better programmer
by na85 on Thursday July 14, 2016 @07:00PM
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I sort-of agree re: spin training.
The reason you don't recover with the ailerons is that it actually increases the angle of attack and makes the stall worse. It makes sense if you understand the aerodynamics. But my experience has been that a great deal of pilots actually have only a fairly rudimentary understanding of it.
>Programmers want to store and retrieve data using the database interface and then leave it to the ops guys to get it running robustly.
Surely the author isn't arguing that Encapsulation is a bad thing? The whole point of an API is that you shouldn't have to sweat the details.
The reason you don't recover with the ailerons is that it actually increases the angle of attack and makes the stall worse. It makes sense if you understand the aerodynamics. But my experience has been that a great deal of pilots actually have only a fairly rudimentary understanding of it.
>Programmers want to store and retrieve data using the database interface and then leave it to the ops guys to get it running robustly.
Surely the author isn't arguing that Encapsulation is a bad thing? The whole point of an API is that you shouldn't have to sweat the details.