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A comment on Ask HN: Why do such strong opinions exist in our industry?.

Re:Ask HN: Why do such strong opinions exist in our industry? by buboard on Sunday August 11, 2019 @08:14PM (#20671407)
I don't know if it has to do with the CS background of people, but i find it baffling too (physics background). A TON of decisions are given very little thought or justification even though it should not be hard to measure stuff. It borders or being similar to management.
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Re:Ask HN: Why do such strong opinions exist in our industry? by skybrian on Sunday August 11, 2019 @09:21PM (#20671698)
Although it's sometimes not hard to measure things, often the measurements don't generalize. Today's measurements may be invalidated by future software upgrades, or just variety in the platforms where the software runs.
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