Re:Ask HN: What are some problems solved in unrelated domains?
by fakedang on Monday October 19, 2020 @09:03AM
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I don't think this is valid. Which other field is there where you can revert changes to a previous version? Certainly not hardware manufacturing.
Re:Ask HN: What are some problems solved in unrelated domains?
by jskdvsksnb on Monday October 19, 2020 @09:28AM
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Versioning schematics and manuals is actually a great place for version control in manufacturing.
One of my first projects out of school was a web app where our engineers could document the assembly steps for a given sub-assenbly, then string those sub-assemblies together into a manual for a specific product. The sub-assembly instructions would be revision controlled, and products would be revision controlled. The model was conceptually similar to git submodules.
Re:Ask HN: What are some problems solved in unrelated domains?
by kroltan on Monday October 19, 2020 @09:51AM
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I don't recall exactly, but there was some legal authority (I think it was a U.S. state?) That uses Git for versioning laws, using pull requests as a way of usefully visualizing changes.
Re:Ask HN: What are some problems solved in unrelated domains?
by antoinealb on Monday October 19, 2020 @09:25AM
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Most domains where you produce knowledge as your main output would work. Version control is integrated in Office for example.
Also, not an industry, but I think that some mathematicians use category theory to translate insights from one domain to other.
(Trying the recipe itself here to find a meta-recipe) I think an insight itself from category theory to a more general recipe could be: don't try to move "laterally" to other industry, but go first "up" from a specific solution to a more general interpretation, and see what more you can solve "down" from there.