Be good-argument-driven, not data-driven

Re:Be good-argument-driven, not data-driven by butUhmErm on Thursday September 01, 2022 @10:08AM (#32676386)

Excel has a history of forced format updates, breaking incompatibility. I know people who banned it because they got tired of marching to MSs upgrade beat.

Python 2 to 3 upgrade aside, can’t really say the same about the language.

There are a number of good arguments out there that might violate an engineers perception, which one might call a cognitive data model built through training and experience.

There is no theory that makes any given engineering path “wiser” than others. Just engineers chasing incentives to be engineers.

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Re:Be good-argument-driven, not data-driven by oivey on Thursday September 01, 2022 @03:58PM (#32682233)

Libraries introduce breaking changes, too. I’ve been bit by silent default changes in Pandas, for example. To me that’s kind of striking because I also wouldn’t consider myself a major user of the library.

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