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Re:Strong typing, a hill I'm willing to die on by enraged_camel on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @01:55PM (#37769067)
>> 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.

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Re:Strong typing, a hill I'm willing to die on by JohnBooty on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @03:27PM (#37770334) 

    hardliners tend to not be great engineers
100% agree.

"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."

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