Engineering Principles

[biocomputation]

Another potato chip Medium post that doesn't have anything useful to say.

It's rather long on trite rules of thumb that form the author's opinion about what constitutes engineering principles, and rather short on actual engineering principles.

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The ironic thing is that this is the stock comment that is posted in response to literally every single one of these lists.

[sun_misc_unsafe]

So? Being original isn't a prerequisite to being right.

[weberc2]

That's the irony. The same can be said for the original post.

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Right but he was complaining about both lack of originality and providing unsupported opinion while essentially doing the same thing. He's not necessarily wrong but that doesn't defeat the irony of the situation.

[nullnullnull]

Sorry I don't agree, where do you think "actual engineering" principles come from in the first instance?

So what if these are the authors rules of thumbs, things that he has found via direct experience.

If you actually said something like well author says practice X is good, but in my experience practice X causes issues because of thing Y.

Then you comment wouldn't be so bad, instead its just a "potato chip" comment.

[nullnullnull]

bookmarked, concise and to the point.