the problem is that the author you quoted is using a framework of thought which characterises programmers as driven by patchwork methodologies for the sake of illustrating the same defect in society, and yet the author is guilty of using a patchwork methodology in the process.
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The units of reuse for sailships are certainly different than for software. Nontheless I would claim that - being a sailship engineer - you end up combining existing solutions. I actually enjoy rephrasing a software problem in order to solve it using existing libraries.
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They're hammered with the re-use mantra because management types love that too much. Ground-up rebuilds cost in the present, reusing garbage for a decade saves until everything fails spectacularly.
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Tell a shipwright to build a sailship and you'll get more of the same, just from a different epistemological frame originating out of memes predicated on obsession with floating trees and woven plant matter.pic.twitter.com/xuOG6pR4xv
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Ask a mechanical engineer to research how humans create ideas, and they might stumble into the nature of analogy and pattern matching. Then I find a boat that flies like a bat. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&lr&cites=5629275120014205275 …pic.twitter.com/jFF27tACn6
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