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Re:The Wrong Abstraction (2016) by hinkley on Friday July 20, 2018 @08:45PM (#17580105)
Do you follow Jim Highsmith at all? His philosophy is that there are no answers. That we are minmaxing a bunch of competing criteria and trying to do the best we can.

In his words: we are a solving problems, we are resolving paradoxes.

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Re:The Wrong Abstraction (2016) by hinkley on Friday July 20, 2018 @11:15PM (#17580521)
Too late to fix typo: we are not solving problems, we are resolving paradoxes
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