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> I think most people who work in tech could use a bit of humility influenced by this line of thought: if a solution exists today, and it has yet to be replaced
by bjornsing 6y ago
> I think most people who work in tech could use a bit of humility influenced by this line of thought: if a solution exists today, and it has yet to be replaced, it's at least possible that it's over all the best solution, and the reason you're not seeing that is because of a lack of understanding.
It also doesn’t have to be the best, and probably isn’t – the space of all possible bit strings large enough to encode Kubernetes is quite big. Being “good enough” is sufficient, and often the discussion really comes down to differing opinions on what that means. These is no uniquely and clearly defined objective function here. People need to stop thinking that theirs is the one and only.
- KajMagnus 6y ago> doesn’t have to be the best, and probably isn’t Precisely. And, building the truly best solution, is often a mistake, in that it can take pointlessly long. Good enough is good enough, and others might find things to improve, and be correct that it'd been better in their way — the important thing is instead to realize that actually making any improvement one might have found, can be far down on the priority list. Maybe there'll always be other more important things to do, so it'll never happen. > > "at least possible that it's over all the best solution" can be rewritten as: > > "at least possible that it's a good enough solution" And maybe it can make sense to make improvement suggestions, and then, when the others say "yea but there's too much else to do", then, ok, maybe forget about it and be happy anyway.