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Don't you find it strange that YOU live in a world where everyone else but YOU thinks that everyone else around them is over engineering or under engineering th
by fckgnad 4y ago
Don't you find it strange that YOU live in a world where everyone else but YOU thinks that everyone else around them is over engineering or under engineering things?
You're not the guy who thinks everyone else is a maniac and is driving too fast or too slow. You're the guy who thinks everyone but you is under this delusion of thinking that everyone else is a maniac and you think you are an exception to the delusion because you can see it in other people.
I am here to tell you that there is a higher plane of understanding. This higher plane of understanding is this:
Even when you are aware that others are prone to biased and fallacies, this awareness does not make you immune to those same biases and fallacies. Because what you understand is also cliche. You are voted up because your awareness is also shared by others. Others observe the biased and fallacies of other people and think that they themselves are above it when in actuality everyone is just looking at each other. We are all mirrors.
There is an even higher plane of understanding. I am not on this level and neither are you. This plane of understanding is the realization that one of us is NOT delusional. Someone is actually right. Someone sees the reality of how something should work and he is right and he is ACTUALLY surrounded by straw men.
The tragedy of the design of computer programs is that we have no theory of efficiency, no theory of what is most optimal. So if someone is right, we have no way of knowing. We are doomed to forever live in a world of blog posts where one of those blog posts is right but we can't know for sure.
You obviously wrote this because you think that the author of the blog post is NOT that man. But because we have no theory to prove otherwise, you simply state common tropes of human fallacies and biases and you use that analogy to discredit his post. It's pointless. Analogies aren't proof, they are themselves delusions but weaponized and used to seemingly prove a point or discredit one. They are convincing but manipulative. Your post can actually discredit every blogpost in the universe and that is why it is useless, pointless and manipulative.
Rather then write sweeping analogies of human biases which can actually "disprove" every single blog post on the face of the earth... offer evidence and example scenarios about why you disagree. Because personally I think the blog poster is right. His thoughts on microservices is correct. Convince me about why he isn't that one guy who is actually right, but know that the argument is endless because none of us can actually verify anything.
- bradhe 4y agoIf you ask a room full of 100 engineers if they are better engineers than their peers, 80 of the 100 will say yes.
- fckgnad 4y agoExactly. My post is the realization of two things: 1. All of us reading this post are more likely to be part of the 80. We are all likely delusional and we are all likely to be wrong. 2. The second thing to realize is that one person out of those 100, is Actually better then everyone else. Who is he and how do we find him? I'm curious about whether this person said yes or no.
- pwndByDeath 4y agoWhat are your basis for better? How many dimensional degrees of freedom are there in better?
- koolba 4y agoIt’s probably true too! The peers are likely the less astute engineers who are stuck at the office rather than traveling to a cushy engineer conference.
- Gud 4y agoOr they’re too busy working, filling in for the engineers networking at a conference…
- ycombobreaker 4y ago"better" is a projection of various personal features onto a single axis. If you ask those 100 engineers to predict their strengths and weaknesses relative to the room, they'd probably do an OK job of it. Asking who is "better" is asking for that, plus their subjective weights of those skills. You should expect that to be a pointless exercise.
- nwah1 4y agoLove your metacognitive awareness. Excellent comment.