Re:What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT?
by dragonwriter on Monday July 23, 2018 @04:31PM
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> You can know whether the aesthetics of something does or does not work without being able to determine why.
You can no whether or not they work for you without knowing why. But the nature of subjectivity is you can't know whether they work in a more general sense without analyzing the elements of the thing in question against an accurate-enough picture of the distribution of tastes in the population.
You can no whether or not they work for you without knowing why. But the nature of subjectivity is you can't know whether they work in a more general sense without analyzing the elements of the thing in question against an accurate-enough picture of the distribution of tastes in the population.