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Re:Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks? by thwllms on Monday September 12, 2016 @11:09AM (#12480325)
Agreed. I was a civil engineer (specializing in water resources) before I became a full-time software developer. The science of hydrology/hydraulics is largely a messy pile of educated guesses, statistical relationships based on embarrassingly small datasets, and highly generalized models.
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Re:Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks? by Kalium on Monday September 12, 2016 @11:39AM (#12480630)
The more of engineering I see in general, the more surprised and impressed I am that anything works at all.
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Re:Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks? by cbHXBY1D on Monday September 12, 2016 @03:54PM (#12483105)
One of my friends, who is a new developer, and I took out a new Tesla for a spin and the whole time he was saying his time as a programmer makes him trust Tesla's self-driving software. My reaction was closer to "I've worked for some of the Big 4 software companies and my time there makes me not trust any software."
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