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it's just the classic: >person in tech spends 5 minutes looking into a subject and thinks they know more than the collective knowledge of every person in the i
by ren_engineer 3y ago
it's just the classic:
>person in tech spends 5 minutes looking into a subject and thinks they know more than the collective knowledge of every person in the industry
- throwitaway222 3y agoThis is so common in our industry. If I had a dollar every time I heard "they should have software engineer run company X" or be president.
- astrobe_ 3y agoThis is basically an argument from authority (or popularity, maybe a bit of both), doubled with an ad hominem attack.
- NoPicklez 3y agoEspecially this > We need to stop planning project primarily by spreadsheets, where the dominating inputs are costs you can measure easily. There are factors that are not reflected in those calculations that not only affect the quality of the place you're creating, but also the financial burden that the community will have to bear for decades down the line. Did they just completely assume that this is the case? There are very talented people who develop modelling for urban planning and infrastructure that do look into these costs and their impacts. But there is no perfect solution, only tradeoffs.