Re:Evidence that ancient farms had different origins than pr...
by xapata on Sunday August 06, 2017 @01:18AM
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At some level one can think of anything as unique, but it's often more useful to consider in what way two (or many) things are similar.
We've got a bit of a dialectic:
Thesis -- The map is not the territory.
Antithesis -- There's nothing so practical as a good theory.
Synthesis -- Use a subway map when catching the train, use a topographical map when doing flood planning, etc.
Taking it back to programming, all abstractions are leaky in some way. A good software engineer uses the right abstraction for the task, knowing that it might be wrong for a different task.
We've got a bit of a dialectic:
Thesis -- The map is not the territory.
Antithesis -- There's nothing so practical as a good theory.
Synthesis -- Use a subway map when catching the train, use a topographical map when doing flood planning, etc.
Taking it back to programming, all abstractions are leaky in some way. A good software engineer uses the right abstraction for the task, knowing that it might be wrong for a different task.