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Not OP, but sometimes 'lovely' designs also nearly work and all that is needed to bridge the final gap is knowledge earned through practical experience.
by mring33621 7y ago
Not OP, but sometimes 'lovely' designs also nearly work and all that is needed to bridge the final gap is knowledge earned through practical experience.
- Consultant32452 7y agoThis happens in construction too. Architect/engineer sign off on a design, the "no education" guy swinging the hammer has to make adjustments in the field to get it to actually work.
- brewtide 7y ago"i'll draw it in later after you have built it".
- geomark 7y agoI worked for my dad a couple summers when I was a teenager. He was a contractor doing wood frame construction in southern California. I never heard him swear so much as when the plans called for something that was next to impossible to build. Later on I did some framing work on my own. Ran into several cases where the designer completely ignored the dimensional instability of wood due to changes in humidity. Often that was really hard for the "no education" guys to fix.
- geomark 7y agoYes, it was mostly this. The sharp credentialed engineers could design, model and simulate complex systems like nobody's business. But, of course, models are never quite exact representations of the real world, especially when it comes to hardware. So the engineers with pracitical knowledge would look at the hardware and (usually rather quickly) spot missing decoupling, debouncing, metastability, sneak paths, etc issues.