@jacques I've worked with a team that has no local dev environment and a 40-minute CI pipeline, so single-character changes take 40 minutes to test
I brought it up once, detected inexplicable resistance, and have never mentioned it again because I just knew they really, really want to build the pyramids the old way
I actually feel a bit better because I thought Pivots would have some magic that allowed them to broach the topic
@ludicity I try not to make a fuss at work because that would be the express train to Burnout City. But I have had many Mugatu moments. It feels like most of the world has embraced Pharaohnic engineering: push giant blocks around with thousands of people and pile them up so they don’t tip over.
Meanwhile, I’ve been to Alpha Centauri in a ship made of mithril and rainbow dust. I know for a fact that aliens didn’t build the pyramids, because I’ve watched them being built.
@jacques I've worked with a team that has no local dev environment and a 40-minute CI pipeline, so single-character changes take 40 minutes to test
I brought it up once, detected inexplicable resistance, and have never mentioned it again because I just knew they really, really want to build the pyramids the old way
I actually feel a bit better because I thought Pivots would have some magic that allowed them to broach the topic
@ludicity tests? CI pipeline? Ha. I’ve worked in Perth mate.
Pivotal’s trick was to take people to space and do a few laps of the solar system. Tell someone something they think is impossible and they’ll ignore it. Show them a few times and it starts to sink in.
The Algamest was mostly unquestioned for centuries. I’ve read some excerpts and I see why people found it compelling and the alternatives absurd. But if they’d been able to fly past the moon…
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