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that’s the danger. you built a system for cogs. someone hired a thinker.
by catchnear4321 3y ago
that’s the danger.
you built a system for cogs.
someone hired a thinker.
- BowBun 3y agoFirst time I've heard this, I love it. Definitely resonates both as the one who is there first, and then future ambitious folks would rather rebuild than understand and extend. Also, relatable when I come in somewhere and immediately start thinking about how I would re-build something instead of improving it. We sure have a lot of hubris in software, don't we?
- shrimp_emoji 3y agoIf you're looking at a giraffe's laryngeal nerve[0], you see it making a circuit from the jaw, down the loooong neck, to the chest, back up the loooong neck, and to the jaw again. It's like this because it used to be an small, innocent "u" shape back before giraffes evolved long necks. As their necks elongated, there was never any effort to rewire the nerve, so it elongated too. When encountering that situation, the correct urge is to rebuild against current circumstances. 0: https://forum.donanimhaber.com/store/c9/ef/2d/c9ef2d955e3f99cfdf2fb99e4ef3591d.jpg https://forum.donanimhaber.com/store/c9/ef/2d/c9ef2d955e3f99...
- citrusynapse 3y ago"What I'm hearing is, there's a vacuum in the market for giraffe re-cabling services."
- lijok 3y agoI hope you regularly give talks. You would be an amazing speaker.
- lijok 3y agoVery good point, eloquently worded
- sfn42 3y agoEh, in this case your "thinker" sounds kinda dumb to me.
- catchnear4321 3y agowe aren’t disagreeing. thinking isn’t always smart. being a cog isn’t always dumb. sometimes the smartest thing to do is understand how a system is built and accept that until you understand it, you should learn about it. as a cog.