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It's pretty discouraging that most of the experts and people who spend a lot of time in a domain are so cynical about their products. Some examples: almost eve
by dschobel 17y ago
It's pretty discouraging that most of the experts and people who spend a lot of time in a domain are so cynical about their products.
Some examples: almost everyone I know who worked fast-food as a teenager refuses to eat there as an adult because of their first-hand experiences.
Friends who write code for one of the major airline manufacturers telling horror stories about the systems code which fly the plane.
And I could go on for days about the things I saw when I was writing code for an emergency services (e911) company.
Now we can add farmers who wouldn't even eat the food they bring to market to that list.
It's a terrifying world out there if you're paying attention...
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- nkurz 17y agoNow we can add farmers who wouldn't even eat the food they bring to market to that list. Where in the list do you find that example? The only comment by a farmer I saw was a (great) grass-fed beef producer lamenting the quality of mass-produced grain-fed beef. I'm quite certain he happily eats the products that he produces. I deal with a lot of conventional and organic growers. While I'm sure that they exist somewhere, I've yet to run across a farmer who wouldn't eat what he produces. OK, reading closer I guess you are right if you're willing to go on hearsay. A representative of the National Organics Standards Board is quoted as having talked to potato farmers who say they wouldn't eat what they sell. Or is there some greater evidence you see?
- dschobel 17y ago#4: "I've talked with potato growers who say point-blank they would never eat the potatoes they sell. They have separate plots where they grow potatoes for themselves without all the chemicals."
- aminuit 17y agoThe expert: Jeffrey Moyer, chair of the National Organic Standards Board He has an agenda, and his story sounds apocryphal.
- gcheong 17y ago"It's a terrifying world out there if you're paying attention..." More like it's a terrifying world out there if you buy into all the fear mongering.
- javert 17y agoWhich airline manufacturer?
- rms 17y agoNot systems code, but I worked for a legacy airline in engineering and now have a fear of flying. The plane I observed most closely during my job was the Boeing 757 with Rolls Royce engine.
- scott_s 17y agoIt's basically the old aphorism that you don't want to know how the sausage is made. Dig even mildly deep in most things that humans do and you'll find objectionable things.
- mnemonicsloth 17y agoAll jobs have horror stories. People like to share them. A pizza delivery driver's horror stories are forgettable, but an air traffic controller's are not.
- Alex3917 17y agoAlso, CS experts are the ones least likely to trust eVoting machines. And doctors are more likely than the general public to support naturopathic medicine. I suspect it's a corollary of the Fundamental Attribution Error.