Re:How the CCP Does Job Promotions
by robocat on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @03:26PM
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> This is simply a modification of a sewer system
Any civil engineers here that can explain why “simply” might not apply?
I have watched some sewer modifications[1] here in Christchurch (earthquake damage, Insituform product), and it looked incredibly complicated and I didn’t see how they reconnected each home’s connection to the main.
A typical metaphor for software engineering is rebuilding a plane while it is running. What is an appropriate metaphor when you are fixing old pipes that carry human excrement and the system mostly keeps working while it’s being done...
Any civil engineers here that can explain why “simply” might not apply?
I have watched some sewer modifications[1] here in Christchurch (earthquake damage, Insituform product), and it looked incredibly complicated and I didn’t see how they reconnected each home’s connection to the main.
A typical metaphor for software engineering is rebuilding a plane while it is running. What is an appropriate metaphor when you are fixing old pipes that carry human excrement and the system mostly keeps working while it’s being done...
[1] https://www3.epa.gov/npdes/pubs/rehabl.pdf