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I'd say engineering quality is tangential to success -- not strictly orthogonal. Still, it's close enough to orthogonal that it takes a heck of a lot of attent
by apotheon 17y ago
I'd say engineering quality is tangential to success -- not strictly orthogonal. Still, it's close enough to orthogonal that it takes a heck of a lot of attention to notice the difference.
- panic 17y agoWhat's the difference between tangential and orthogonal?
- dtby 17y ago- v |
- akirk 17y ago|( vs -| :)
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- DougBTX 17y agoI have no idea what these guys are talking about, but this is a tangent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tangent_to_a_curve.svg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tangent_to_a_curve.svg And AB is orthogonal to CD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Perpendicular-coloured.svg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Perpendicular-coloured.svg
- edu 17y agoIn the context, I'd say that two orthogonal features are completely independent from each other (i.e. good engineering is independent from success and the other way around). But tangential features do affect each other (i.e. you cannot succeed without good engineering). His point was that a better engineering will give you a slight better chance to succeed (tangential), but that it's so small that's almost imperceptible and can seem to not affect (orthogonal).
- apotheon 17y agoPrecisely.