{"id":2183,"date":"2008-06-24T13:43:27","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T17:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/?p=2183"},"modified":"2017-08-18T18:02:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T18:02:31","slug":"when-engineers-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2008\/06\/24\/when-engineers-design\/","title":{"rendered":"When Engineers Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/julianbleecker\/2608285794\/\" title=\"When Engineers Design by JulianBleecker, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3062\/2608285794_2e494369d3.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"182\" alt=\"When Engineers Design\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>..respectfully. I&#8217;m an engineer, too, who is learning Design. But these sorts of things \u2014 not done on purpose of course \u2014 reveal the seams between purely functional and designed-with-love. This isn&#8217;t fun. It works. It gets the job done. But it&#8217;s robotron to the point of disrespectfully, especially nowadays. I could understand this if we were in the good old Univac or VAX days. But, &#8216;cmon.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. Off to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reboot.dk\/\">reboot 10<\/a> for a day or two of decompiling..<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>..respectfully. I&#8217;m an engineer, too, who is learning Design. But these sorts of things \u2014 not done on purpose of course \u2014 reveal the seams between purely functional and designed-with-love. This isn&#8217;t fun. It works. It gets the job done. But it&#8217;s robotron to the point of disrespectfully, especially nowadays. 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