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Re:Why Engineers Can't Be Rational About Programming Languages by tbrownaw on Monday November 03, 2025 @07:05PM (#45806024)
> and that leadership by arbitrary decree is stupid. Great! These are age-old lessons

To some extent! There are also cases where any decision is better than no decision, and all the options are good enough that it's not worth the delay to argue about them.

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Re:Why Engineers Can't Be Rational About Programming Languages by pdimitar on Thursday November 06, 2025 @11:22AM (#45836885)
> any decision is better than no decision

Where does that fit, in a company where there's only one techie? Not sure I get your comment here.

Also "good enough" is a very, very tempting and treacherous mistress...

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