I’ve lived in both places and if you think not having power during a week of sub 20 degree temps compares to not having power when it is 40-60 degress outside then I guess we have different ideas of what is better.
We were able to find a few cyclists who misbehaved so we are going to justify killing them with 1 ton metal machines because we feel threatened by them?
Was the legacy team free from daily responsibilities of maintaining the system or were you at an unfair advantage because you only had to work on new development?
This is probably the only way that anything gets done though. Someone has to keep the legacy system running, warts and all, while someone else has the free space to work on something better. The only thing that's misguided is comparing the two as if they were tasked with the same goal (they were not).
But, one can speculate that if the situation was reversed, and the interns and newbies were forced to maintain the old system and the old hands were given carte blanche to write a new system, that maybe they wouldn't have been as creative or open-minded about it. Or maybe they'd have deeper insights based on their experience? Who knows?
Richard Hamming talks of the development of FORTRAN and Algol in his History of Computers talk. He recalls FORTRAN being received as something between an abomination and a stupid trick.
Algol, in contrast, was backed by many international groups and is described as "an attempt by the theoreticians to greatly improve FORTRAN" (by way of all their great, formalized knowledge and 'wisdom').
The seasoned experts always think they have some secret that the upstarts are missing, a special sauce that no "true solution" built by "true engineers" would be without. And then their overengineered designed by committee and compromise solutions stumble out of the garage and collapse in a heap. Meanwhile, those things built by people more motivated by a desire and a passion than by signaling their expertise soar past and into fields and uses their designers never imagined.
People who have been in the trenches for years tend to have difficulty ignoring the current system and its limitations when building a replacement. So they end up rebuilding the same product over again.
I've seen it a lot and have been on both sides. Newly created teams have a massive advantage when it comes to replacing existing systems because they avoid getting bogged down in the details. However, they do invariably miss implementing key features in the new system, leading to a situation where the new system is better than the old one only 80-90% of the time.
> Richard Hamming talks of the development of FORTRAN and Algol in his History of Computers talk. He recalls FORTRAN being received as something between an abomination and a stupid trick.
Interesting. I recently designed an executable format that runs on seven operating systems and I've definitely been getting that vibe from a lot of my colleagues. I try not to take it personally since I feel like some ideas can only be discovered and the will of technology often isn't our own.
We were the maintenance team for the old system. We were allowed to only work on the parts of the etl pipeline that required updates due to changes in the data we were extracting. The more experienced team members were dealing with mostly database issues caused by trying to load 8 million documents every night.
Bull. I've had cartilage worn out in my knee for years. I remain active and take it very seriously. You don't get "regrowth" and recover. And frankly I don't believe MRIs have shown regrowth...this is a constant rumor I hear all the time and yet no one shows any consistent formula for this regrowth which means it is either false or just rare and not reproducible.
My personal experience has been it's a grueling exercise in trial and error to find what works. To have the opinion that its all bull is certainly justified, we for sure don't know the formula, but I propose that it's there, beckoning to be figured out. Just to stretch and keep active is not detailed enough. It's identifying problem areas, working on them every day, but also working them especially hard and taking time off when you have flare ups. Staying active, but not blindly... Finding the right amount of movement that causes no issue, and increasing ever so slowly, and backpedaling when you mess up, and reducing the number of times you backpedal because every time you have to it works against you. Doing this every day, being patient, being at terms with some things take years. 4 years ago my back dr told me I should stop doing all physical things - the pain would never go away. I said screw that. Its been 7 years now. I rock climb, I lift weights, I hike, I surf... No pain. It's possible.
Your description of self treatment is very similar to what I did for a herniated disc. I found that if I got myself into some silence and worked with breathing I could hear my body intuitively telling me what to do.
Count me in with the old folks. I can't tell what this is. I read not only the home page, but the features and faq pages also. I can guess a bit, but it's still fuzzy.
Confusing. Are you wanting to make a legal claim against Toyota, Ford, Chevy, etc. if someone drives an automobile in a way that makes you have to file a legal claim?
This comes across as just "get off my lawn" sort of reaction.
The scooter sharing company isn't (necessarily) the manufacturer in your analogy.
This is like Ford rented someone a car for off-roading with FWD, no seatbelts and racing slicks, didn't ask for proof of a license or any experience driving at all, and they ended up driving off a cliff.
I ride stock and everyone is always surprised. They always comment on how my Harley isn't loud. So a group has spoiled the perception for the rest of us. They may be the majority but they are not "all"
I never ride with a large group. I don't care what kind of motorcycles you are talking about when you put 10 of them together they annoy everyone. A group of crotch rockets sounds just as awful as a group of cruisers.
I used to ride in groups but we usually spread out so everybody could find their own rhythm. I never understood the appeal of riding in a staggered formation close to each other.
