alt Hacker NewsNow we do computing like we play Sim City: sketching fuzzy plans and hoping those little creatures behave the way we thought they might. All the beauty and guarantees offered by a system obeying strict and predictable rules goes down the drain, because life's so boring, apparently.
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SV_BubbleTime • yesterday at 9:20 PM
We spent a ton of time removing subjectivity from this field… only to forcefully shove it in and punish it for giving repeatable objective responses. Wild.
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The difference is that it's not a toy. I'd rather compare it to the early days of offshore development, when remote teams were sooo attractive because they cost 20% of an onshore team for a comparable declared capability, but the predictability and mutual understanding proved to be... not as easy.