Re:Strong typing, a hill I'm willing to die on
by purplerabbit on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @01:54PM
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Your bio says “most people are stupid” — how’d you arrive at that conclusion without judging people?
Re:Strong typing, a hill I'm willing to die on
by busterarm on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @04:22PM
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There's a chasm of difference between blatantly self-destructive life choices and forgetting that your profession is about making decisions based on multiple options.
Also you only half-quoted me.
It's "... and/or on drugs".
Also people being stupid doesn't mean that I don't consider anything they say. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Re:Strong typing, a hill I'm willing to die on
by enraged_camel on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @01:55PM
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>> Also, the domain we're in is engineering. There are no single correct decisions and everything is about trade-offs.
Yep. In my experience, hardliners tend to not be great engineers, even if they have decades of experience.
Re:Strong typing, a hill I'm willing to die on
by JohnBooty on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @03:27PM
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hardliners tend to not be great engineers
"Strong opinions, weakly held" is okay with me though. I don't call that "hardlining."
Although, sometimes it's hard to differentiate "strong opinions, weakly held" from "strong opinions, strongly held, not open to new ideas."
Also, the domain we're in is engineering. There are no single correct decisions and everything is about trade-offs. And that's good because otherwise our jobs would be the first to be automated out of existence. All of the discussion in this thread about people "thinking less of" other engineers for their opinions/experiences is fucking gross.