tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34203016.post4982510670261231948..comments2024-01-22T16:54:30.446-08:00Comments on Richard Kulisz: Engineers Are An Inferior Form of LifeRichard Kuliszhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05450367878517586463noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34203016.post-43767905959770431692019-11-24T14:12:15.096-08:002019-11-24T14:12:15.096-08:00Who DOES it cater to?Who DOES it cater to?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34203016.post-65891344979834867202013-02-24T11:26:42.220-08:002013-02-24T11:26:42.220-08:00This blog doesn't cater to insects. (indiffere...This blog doesn't cater to insects. (indifference)Richard Kuliszhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05450367878517586463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34203016.post-18832424225361250872013-02-24T09:57:01.112-08:002013-02-24T09:57:01.112-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34203016.post-75155905188215790482012-05-08T06:21:17.360-07:002012-05-08T06:21:17.360-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34203016.post-78921385228884118872012-05-06T15:03:54.633-07:002012-05-06T15:03:54.633-07:00It's funny how engineers think speeding up som...It's funny how engineers think speeding up some ridiculously unimportant niche applications in numerical computing by 1000x is "actually bloody useful" whereas speeding up the ENTIRE WORLD ECONOMY by a mere 2x is entirely unimportant.<br /><br />Why do they think that? Because they've got objective empirical metrics right in front of them. And because they are too fucking retarded to wonder (let alone judge!) whether or not those metrics are any good.<br /><br />As far as an engineer is concerned, if a metric measures things to 20 decimal places, then it's more important than one that measures things to 2 decimal places. Even if the former is the mean frequency of the sky, and the latter is the age of the universe.<br /><br />Engineers are the kinds of fucking retards who take "precision is good" to extremes. So in their atrophied minds, the measure of a speedup of a task is GOOD because it's precise. And the measure of something's contribution to the economy is BAD because it's imprecise.<br /><br />Of course, anyone sane and capable of common sense will merely conclude that since engineers are incapable of common sense then engineers must be retarded.<br /><br />Thank you Mr Anonymous Coward of an Engineer for your brave illustration of how fucking retarded you are.Richard Kuliszhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05450367878517586463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34203016.post-12940155807246242972012-05-06T14:39:27.704-07:002012-05-06T14:39:27.704-07:00I bet you that half the reason that the engineers ...I bet you that half the reason that the engineers got confused about the requests for graphical user interfaces was that they couldn't figure out what the fuck you'd want to do with them. They didn't massively speed up any task, which had been the *very fucking reason* that computers were invented (as far back as Babbage as well!). <br /><br />They weren't based on sound algorithmic advice, the likes of which dated a hell of a lot longer back than most of the designers' principles. They were a drain on resources, and no matter how much a word processing program or an image manipulator speeds things up now, it isn't by the orders of magnitude that computing speeded up the calculation of things *which were actually bloody useful*.<br /><br />Also, Smalltalk sucks. Get over it. It eats memory and clock cycles with little - if any - net benefit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34203016.post-88879675964030264402011-06-29T14:40:18.309-07:002011-06-29T14:40:18.309-07:00You haven't seen anything. On reddit, where th...You haven't seen anything. On reddit, where this post was submitted, there was a commenter who said he only read the first half of this post and then bitterly complained that I never explained blah blah ... which I did in the second half of this post.Richard Kuliszhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05450367878517586463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34203016.post-33951228828397765422011-06-29T12:21:01.385-07:002011-06-29T12:21:01.385-07:00Pathetic, ankle-biting commenters.Pathetic, ankle-biting commenters.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34203016.post-61439675216561990172011-05-30T10:46:16.810-07:002011-05-30T10:46:16.810-07:00Ah, the sugared feeling of you knowing THE ULTIMAT...Ah, the sugared feeling of you knowing THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION to general mankind problems. Can't beat it eh?jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08098618666398155514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34203016.post-49900211346016969842011-05-30T09:58:59.900-07:002011-05-30T09:58:59.900-07:00For those of you who read the comments first, don&...For those of you who read the comments first, don't bother reading this blog post. It is unfortunately a waste.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com