Driving engineers to an arbitrary date is a value destroying mistake (2020)

Re:Driving engineers to an arbitrary date is a value destroy... by moonchrome on Friday August 06, 2021 @09:48AM (#28087117)

One reason I like this kind of work is that it implies when someone spent that much effort on an irrelevant detail they probably paid attention to important parts as well. Not always the case but yeah.

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Re:Driving engineers to an arbitrary date is a value destroy... by ChrisMarshallNY on Friday August 06, 2021 @10:18AM (#28087448)

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

- [Probably erroneously] ascribed to Aristotle

But naysayers will say we are "bikeshedding."

Meh. Whatevs. I do things the way I do.

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Re:Driving engineers to an arbitrary date is a value destroy... by cpach on Sunday August 15, 2021 @11:24AM (#28189497)

It’s a paraphrase, but the origin is indeed Aristotle.

http://www.universalethics.org/Ideas/Virtue_as_a_habit.htm

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