A recent Slashdot post on the topic of “being effective when promoted from engineer to architect” really made me sit up and take notice.
A recent Slashdot post on the topic of “being effective when promoted from engineer to architect” really made me sit up and take notice. I mean, how often does that happen? On Slashdot?
Reading through the rest of the comments (at +3, for my own sanity), it’s quite startling how many good tidbits have appeared. There really is a lurking Slashdot community of wise people, all evidence to the contrary.
It’s threads like this that make me wonder about the temporal nature of discussion-oriented sites like Slashdot (and newgroups in general). Information, knowledge, cleverness, wisdom appears out of thin air — and then disappears again like Brigadoon. Like antiparticles in a collider, having lost their way and stumbled into our universe by chance. How do we capture these subatomic gems? How can we save them for later, when we need them?