Lost in Math - Hackdot

Re:Lost in Math by booleandilemma on Sunday July 01, 2018 @01:13PM (#17436436)

I once watched the software architect at a company I worked for get called out on why he was choosing a certain design decision that was going to impact a critical component of the product, and he justified himself by saying he had a good feeling about it. When pressed further he could only vaguely and emphatically respond “I don’t know, I just think this is the best way”.

So this important decision was based on this dude (excuse me, software architect) shrugging and saying it feels good.

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Re:Lost in Math by platz on Sunday July 01, 2018 @01:28PM (#17436521)

it could mean he's developed a sense in the "right side" of his brain which isn't logic-based. Unfortunately, it's impossible to tell whether someone's taste is bullshit or finely tuned. The best-in-class typically do not follow axiomatic rules either. In this case it's probably the former.

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Re:Lost in Math by sgt101 on Sunday July 01, 2018 @01:57PM (#17436647)

And it's great when someone like Johanna Weber has a brilliant insight about a delta formed wing and it turns into a beautiful outcome like Concorde - if all the calculations are around to un-bullshit it to bits !

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Re:Lost in Math by mathattack on Sunday July 01, 2018 @09:41PM (#17438788)

Sometimes that’s the best someone with better intuition than communication can produce. (I prefer to err on the side of clear testable communications, but there are weak communicators who are still usually correct)

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Re:Lost in Math by xamuel on Sunday July 01, 2018 @05:06PM (#17437587)

At least the architect in question was honest. It would have been so easy to spout some generic BS about "industry standard", "principle of parsimony", etc. etc.

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