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0 pointsmatt_kantor11y ago0 comments

> While there has always been some degree of disagreement regarding technological matters, I think we're really seeing a lot more of it these days

I don't have any way to dispute this, but I don't think it's easy to provide evidence for it either. I feel that there may simply be more individuals involved in these kinds of discussions these days.

Obviously at some point you have to stop discussing something and start building it. That's not to say that discussion isn't important or shouldn't be encouraged (quite the contrary), but I find it very difficult to make generalizations about where the line should be drawn.

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angersock11y ago

Obviously at some point you have to stop discussing something and start building it.

No, see, that's where we are having problems: there is a perfectly valid answer of "It's good enough, or simple enough, that we will leave it as-is barring a really big leap".

Assuming that you've got to build something to replace the status quo is still itself an assumption. Saying, in effect, "Hey, we've got to build something" naturally disallows a reasonable engineering conservatism.

Software gets better not as you add things, but as you remove them--people keep forgetting this.

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