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What is “good taste” in software engineering?
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Re: What is “good taste” in software engineering?
#242Earlier quoted context omitted.
Holy sh... I didn't expect that Godwin's law would apply that quickly. IMHO, I'm also part of the problem and I think I am a horrible person, but at least I don't consider myself superior to anyone in any way no matter their race, gender, software philosophy or their political views as far as they don't fall in the tolerance paradox.
It's pretty well documented that they called their mailserver "Wolfsschanze" (which was one of Hitler's military bunkers). Whether or not that's just edgy behavior or not, I don't know, but my guess it's a bit of both considering suckless people have complained about "cultural marxism", which is a term with pretty straight lineage to the Nazi's "cultural bolshevism". So... is that not a nazi reference? Why else would…
By the way, just wanted to be sure about this: Tiki Torch parades have been documented since the XI century on the Pyrenees, I just wanted to be sure how old was the tradition. That's the first place that came to my mind and the place where I myself have gone down a hill with some other hundreds of people carrying a torch... When we finished, in the town in the valley, there was a reggae concert and most of the guys down the hill went there, no problems at all.
Actually my country had a fascist dictatorship until the end of the 70s. I'm old enough to have been hit by nazis in the early 90s. I have seen fascists in a parade and policemen doing nothing.
IMHO, software philosophy does not have anything to do with some developer philosophy. IMHO again, that is like comparing journaling filesystems and B+ trees as apology of gender-based violence because ReiserFS was one of the first mainstream filesystems that implemented it.
Re: What is “good taste” in software engineering?
#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's pretty well documented that they called their mailserver "Wolfsschanze" (which was one of Hitler's military bunkers). Whether or not that's just edgy behavior or not, I don't know, but my guess it's a bit of both considering suckless people have complained about "cultural marxism", which is a term with pretty straight lineage to the Nazi's "cultural bolshevism". So... is that not a nazi reference? Why else would…
By the way, just wanted to be sure about this: Tiki Torch parades have been documented since the XI century on the Pyrenees, I just wanted to be sure how old was the tradition. That's the first place that came to my mind and the place where I myself have gone down a hill with some other hundreds of people carrying a torch... When we finished, in the town in the valley, there was a reggae concert and most of the guys…
I think we mostly agree here. I just found the preemption curious.
Re: What is “good taste” in software engineering?
#244Good taste is writing code that looks so simple, everyone else says "pshaw, anyone could have written that!"
Another one: People will watch a ballet and remark "they make it look so easy and effortless!" The reality is, it is easy and effortless to them, because they practiced it 10,000 times.
That's the best kind of work to get into. Something where you've got a rare skill, do something that looks amazing, but it's easy. Like ballet, the hard part is getting yourself to that skill level and finding opportunities to use it.
Re: What is “good taste” in software engineering?
#245> good taste is the ability to select the right set of engineering values for the particular technical problem you’re facing I don't think this makes sense. Firstly because engineering values aren't the same thing as engineering requirements; I don't want someone's "values" to end up making a product unsafe or unreliable (these aren't "taste", they're non-negotiable requirements). But secondly because, in engineering…
> Tough luck, buddy. Engineering is about precision, science, math
Which is why software development, even if the field has decided to grace itself with the title of "Engineering", just isn't that. Say what you will, Software development is NOT about science and math the same way that civil engineering is. Otherwise, we'd have loads more data handbooks and ISO norms that we have a legal requirement to fulfill.