Comments on: Unforseeable Consequences: Why We Have Principles http://www.codesimplicity.com/archives/32 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:50:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Bookmarks about Patterns http://www.codesimplicity.com/archives/32#comment-601 Bookmarks about Patterns Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:00:15 +0000 http://www.codesimplicity.com/?p=32#comment-601 [...] - bookmarked by 2 members originally found by leesz on 2008-08-21 Code Simplicity: Unforseeable Consequences: Why We Have Principles http://www.codesimplicity.com/archives/32 - bookmarked by 4 members originally found by [...] [...] - bookmarked by 2 members originally found by leesz on 2008-08-21 Code Simplicity: Unforseeable Consequences: Why We Have Principles http://www.codesimplicity.com/archives/32 - bookmarked by 4 members originally found by [...]

]]> By: Max Kanat-Alexander http://www.codesimplicity.com/archives/32#comment-342 Max Kanat-Alexander Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:14:23 +0000 http://www.codesimplicity.com/?p=32#comment-342 Wow, yeah, that's a really interesting thing to think about! -Max Wow, yeah, that’s a really interesting thing to think about!

-Max

]]> By: Eric Howe http://www.codesimplicity.com/archives/32#comment-341 Eric Howe Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:12:08 +0000 http://www.codesimplicity.com/?p=32#comment-341 Methinks that all of this would apply equally well to finance. A little off-topic perhaps but I think it is high time for finance to become more of an engineering discipline (complete with silly things like fail safes, redundancies, personal liability, ...) than the current gambling free-for-all that we have now. Engineers learned their lessons through years of death and destruction; programmers are starting to learn their lessons through years of destruction (and maybe a little death); finance has been around longer than both and has caused more death and destruction than both combined but it is still based on little more than hope and delusion. Methinks that all of this would apply equally well to finance. A little off-topic perhaps but I think it is high time for finance to become more of an engineering discipline (complete with silly things like fail safes, redundancies, personal liability, …) than the current gambling free-for-all that we have now. Engineers learned their lessons through years of death and destruction; programmers are starting to learn their lessons through years of destruction (and maybe a little death); finance has been around longer than both and has caused more death and destruction than both combined but it is still based on little more than hope and delusion.

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