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A lot of engineering (as opposed to computer science) is about eliminating strangeness and minimizing risk.
by cwzwarich 13y ago
A lot of engineering (as opposed to computer science) is about eliminating strangeness and minimizing risk.
- roguecoder 13y agoProbably because those areas of engineering are about making things that work.
- calibraxis 13y agoBosses understandably want to commoditize programmers. Speaking of "strange tools", Rich Hickey mentioned the phenomenon of helping commoditize yourself by shying away from the unfamiliar (in Simple Made Easy).
- smsm42 13y agoEverybody wants to commoditize programmers. Commoditizing is how you build mass production, mass production is how you get cheap accessible goods, cheap accessible good is how you keep 7 bln people fed and reasonable comfortable. I get it that for a professional programmer the threat to his priesthood status is unpleasant, but it's where it is going, and it is inevitable.