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offtopic: Such a great engineer and yet their blog says: Website Powered by WordPress.com. I find the pragmatism worthy of praise. I've been meaning to start b

• haolez 5y ago
  Making use of existing tools and being able to manage their shortcomings is an important engineering skill.
• sydthrowaway 5y ago
  • hatware 5y ago
    Did one person design the SR-71...?
    • sydthrowaway 5y ago
      yes
      • hatware 5y ago
        He was the head of the engineering team. He didn't go into a cave and come out with completed designs...
        • sydthrowaway 5y ago
          Who gets credit for a really good movie?
          • samhw 5y ago
            …the people who made it? I know none of us sit through the credits, but I can assure you they do typically carry on rolling for quite some time.
  • samhw 5y ago
    In case you genuinely missed the point: he was saying that the person is a great engineer for not wasting their time optimising irrelevant details like their blog. Time allocation is an optimisation problem like any other.
• papito 5y ago
  WP is a never-ending source of security vulnerabilities. 30% of the internet runs on it. I found Jekyll and never looked back.
  • nvarsj 5y ago
    That’s why you use managed Wordpress, aka wordpress.com.
• deleted 5y ago
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• gzer0 5y ago
  The paradox of choice. I suffer from this way too often. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice