[HN Gopher] Turning the Crank: Design as a Mechanical Process
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       Turning the Crank: Design as a Mechanical Process
        
       Author : karmaniverous
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2024-10-19 06:31 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | bryanrasmussen wrote:
       | the first word is recently, with a very large space between the
       | capitalized R and ecently.
       | 
       | So R ecently.
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       | I thought it was going to be about the R programming language and
       | am still upset it wasn't.
        
       | kmerroll wrote:
       | Very interesting article and helpful to visualize the layers and
       | perspectives in and more comprehensive architecture diagram. I
       | would add that the layers of abstraction could also be
       | represented in a standard Semantic Web OWL ontology which would
       | capture a lot more context and sematic detail related to
       | hierarchies, concepts, classes, and object property
       | relationships. Picture are great, but it's always a struggle to
       | get them complete.
        
       | mikehollinger wrote:
       | https://c4model.com/ is very useful for this. :-)
       | 
       | I've told it before, but when we were doing some clean sheet work
       | a while ago I decided to use the C4 model and drew out the
       | obligatory "Context" diagram with "user" "phone" "laptop" "app"
       | sort of stuff.
       | 
       | I found them silly and (honestly) I still find that if I see one
       | "in the wild" with no further elaboration I become suspect.
       | 
       | However two hours later, because of that silly context diagram, I
       | realized that we had both an online and a semi-disconnected
       | mobile app that could be offline for hours, and that certain
       | things -had- to use a queue and expect an arbitrary amount of
       | time for a task to run, and it completely changed how we thought
       | about the core of how we implemented something pretty important.
       | 
       | Sold. :-)
        
       | Animats wrote:
       | > Frank Gehry is arguably one of the world's greatest living
       | architects.
       | 
       | Oh, please. Have you seen that mess at MIT?
       | 
       | Actually, I wonder what tools he and his people use for design. A
       | floor plan and an elevation are nowhere near enough for those
       | strange shapes. Something like an auto body design tool might be
       | needed.
        
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