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Definitely appreciate that you put design in quotes - we aren't really designed in the way that most people think about the word. My understanding is more like
by gxs 8y ago
Definitely appreciate that you put design in quotes - we aren't really designed in the way that most people think about the word.
My understanding is more like things are tried until something sticks. Maybe internal testicles would have been optimal, but external ones were first and simply good enough to stick around.
- mbreese 8y agoIt’s also possible that there was a different adaptation that happened at the same time that was more important and that external testicles weren’t necessarily good enough to stick around, but rather not bad enough to ditch!
- hprotagonist 8y agoto make a bad CS analogy, imagine 4.5 billion years of grad student code. Each generation does juuust enough work to graduate, makes liberal use of chicken wire and duct tape, JB weld if you're lucky. Source control is for suckers. Mutation is a great design pattern. Globals are obviously the best. Goto is fine. Dependency management is for lesser beings. The code was hard to write, so it should be hard to read. There are no comments and if there were they would lie.
- jobigoud 8y agoAnd meta programming. Lots of meta programming.