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Re: [OT] engineering

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>>>>> Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> writes:
>>>>> Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>> Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> writes:

[...]

 >>> To quote my boss: Make it work now quickly and clean it up later

[...]

 >> ... Once, I will find the patience to wait for the food engineers
 >> out there to design a sound nutritional solution.

 >> Meanwhile, I'm forced to rely on the off-the-shelf products, which
 >> are known to be full of undocumented features, deviate from the
 >> specifications every now and then, and (while I'm yet to see one
 >> myself) are reported to contain actual bugs...

 > Minus some obvious misconceptions (eg, the 'off the shelf' food is
 > designed by 'food engineers' to be 'soundly nutrirional', ie, contain
 > everything fashion currently demands that it should and not contain
 > anything fashion demands that it currently mustn't,

	The nutritional requirements of an average healthy adult are
	more or less well-known (check, e. g., [1]), and do not depend
	much on "fashion," whatever one's misconceptions may be.

[1] http://www.iom.edu/Global/News%20Announcements/~/media/Files/Activity%20Files/Nutrition/DRIs/DRI_Summary_Listing.pdf

 > while less sophisticated people like me get by somehow with
 > vegetables, meat, spices

	(... Except that all of the above were "engineered," one way or
	the other.)

 > and tools to prepare these in some completely 'unscientific' way),

	The "food engineers" of today have learned that they have to
	make food "tasty", not "healthy," in order to succeed.  Which
	more or less corresponds to what I may otherwise call an
	"unscientific" way.

	(Not that there's much difference to "software engineers" in
	this respect.)

 > I have no idea what this was supposed to mean.

	My point is simple: if the deadline is today, one has to forget
	about "science" (be it Wirth's, Borlaug's, or someone's else),
	and use whatever "ingredients" available to solve the task at
	hand.  Be it a program, or a dinner.

	And using nested scopes is as beneficial to writing software,
	as washing one's hands is to preparing food.

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[OT] engineering Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2013-07-15 11:37 +0000
  Re: [OT] engineering Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2013-07-16 21:49 +0100
    Re: [OT] engineering Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2013-07-17 09:27 +0000
      Re: [OT] engineering Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2013-07-17 15:53 +0100
      Re: [OT] engineering Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2013-07-22 10:36 +0000
        Re: [OT] engineering Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid> - 2013-07-23 06:43 -0400
      Re: [OT] engineering Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2013-07-22 10:38 +0000
  Re: [OT] engineering Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-07-26 10:09 +0100

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