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As an engineer i tire of engineer worship. Any engineer not too full off themselves should finish the video with too conclusions perhaps unintuitive to much of
by cyphunk 13y ago
As an engineer i tire of engineer worship. Any engineer not too full off themselves should finish the video with too conclusions perhaps unintuitive to much of the HN mass:
1. I could actually fulfil the letter of the request provided I can use 2 red lines, 2 green lines and 2 transparent lines. Or I could modify the request slightly in various ways to also provide much of the requirements.
2. damn if it was not for the stupid sales people I probably would not have even thought of these solutions.
Non-techs are there to force you to think outside of your own damn box. Too many engineers assume that people talking to them should understand why something wont work, before they take the time to see how it could work differently then even they would have initially thought. Even fewer have the wits to give credit to the collaborative process that brings these less that intuitive solutions to light.
Go find and read the circa 1700 essay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_von_Kleist#On_the_Gradual_Production_of_Thoughts_Whilst_Speaking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_von_Kleist#On_the_Gra...