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Re:How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner... by dustingetz on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @08:40AM (#23769268)
167 tech that does the same thing is a failure of abstraction

Idea: what we're actually measuring is the speed of human reasoning vs the business value of time-to-market.

Re:How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner... by r34 on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @09:28AM (#23769663)
Personally I measure happiness and fullness of life :)
Re:How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner... by dustingetz on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @10:07AM (#23769975)
So that's kind of the root of the problem – "sufficiently strong optimization of a specific target destroys all external value"