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Originally Posted by freebeard
So today the Scottster badgered his audience over the binary choice -- should system be tweaked or scrapped and replaced. As usual privileging responses from economists/engineers.
He needs to learn to code. From the programmers he could learn about 'technical debt'. I'm not a know-it-all, I just read about it the other day.
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I'll give it a listen. Wracked my ankle riding a friend's new dirtbike yesterday because I'm out of shape, and was too lazy to cram my feet into motorcycle boots which would have prevented injury, and spent today cleaning up from the new years party and tearing down Christmas. That's my way to say I'm not in a contemplative mood, but an exhausted one.
It is interesting how critical he is of artists, given the fact that he's an artist. I share his criticism because artists are fools. Objective criteria are by definition, measurable. Artists have an aversion to measurement, and their criteria for success is based on how they feel. They deserve every bit of ridicule a person can heave onto them. Although I can't prove that reason is reasonable, that's no excuse to dispense with it entirely.
My criticism of SA is along the lines of being uninterested in the hard part of owning an opinion, which is having done the work required to have sufficiently informed it. My admiration though is his shortcuts in intuiting correct takes along with his admission that the shortcut isn't a 100% guarantee.
I guess your comment about not investing the time to do something right in the first place reminded me of this. I'm hobbling around now because I didn't try harder to get my proper boots on.
Tore Christmas down today. Hoping to find a sale on a bigger wreath for next year.
We have an annual tradition to hunt a tree. They aren't full like tree farm trees, but we have fun.
