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Unless you can decide what elegant, efficient, and effective mean for your project that statement is empty.
by okl 6y ago
Unless you can decide what elegant, efficient, and effective mean for your project that statement is empty.
- _Microft 6y agoElegant might be open for debate, but efficient means good use of needed resources and effective that the desired outcome is actually achieved.
- marcosdumay 6y agoElegant engineering work is work that has good properties as evaluated by other engineers and that don't directly impact the properties non-engineers care about (what doesn't mean that aren't impacts, just not direct ones). I don't think you will find this in any dictionary, but the meaning is incredibly consistent, even on different engineering areas and different languages.
- odonnellryan 6y agoI would say, if engineers can even identify what the desired outcome is, they are already on the path to being excellent (or maybe, if they even attempt to identify what the desire outcome is!)
- TheOtherHobbes 6y agoCheap, fast, good. Mediocre: pick one. Adequate: pick two. Outstanding: pick three. And customers are happy too.
- simonh 6y agoThat’s why good teaching is hard.