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And that Worth worked primarily on systems that are many times smaller (maybe many orders of magnitude smaller) than today's biggest systems. It's no surprise,
by mjb 3y ago
And that Worth worked primarily on systems that are many times smaller (maybe many orders of magnitude smaller) than today's biggest systems. It's no surprise, then, that the successful techniques are different. The right techniques to build a house, a skyscraper, a city, and a garden are different.
- morelisp 3y ago> systems that are many times smaller (maybe many orders of magnitude smaller) than today's biggest systems. This is a dangerous and misleading metric. You're right that different scale needs different techniques, but comparing sizes of actually existing systems in this way it's very easy to conclude your strongest designers who successfully wrangled a large problem into a simple system are your weakest designers because what they designed is so small.
- kragen 3y agothe empire state building is a bit more than an order of magnitude smaller than the great pyramid of khufu, if you go by weight that's why it can be taller, was built much faster, and has much more room inside. also, it has served its intended purpose, while as far as we can tell, khufu's pyramid failed to make him immortal; this is because it was based on flawed theories wirth's work should be an inspiration to see if we can make systems that are many times smaller, maybe many orders of magnitude smaller, than the systems we are unfortunately currently forced to maintain; and yet are more powerful than those systems