Re: [OT] engineering

From	Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.perl.misc, comp.programming, alt.food
Subject	Re: [OT] engineering
Followup-To	comp.programming
Date	2013-07-26 10:09 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<kste06$r64$2@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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Ivan Shmakov wrote:

> [...]
> 
> ... 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...
> 
> [Cross-posting to news:alt.food and news:comp.programming.
> Just in case.]

All engineering relies on off-the-shelf products.  The shelf, though, does 
depend on the circumstances and requirements.  Nevertheless, it's off-the-
shelf all the way down to the turtles, if you will.[1]


Rui Maciel

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down

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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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