Comments on: The Hurricane Lantern Effect https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/07/the-hurricane-lantern-effect/ Wed, 02 May 2018 19:03:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: SQB https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/07/the-hurricane-lantern-effect/#comment-547878 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:02:05 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/07/the-hurricane-lantern-effect/#comment-547878 The other side of this coin, however, is ending up with an onion in the varnish.

]]> By: Hypatia's Daughter https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/07/the-hurricane-lantern-effect/#comment-547877 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:29:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/07/the-hurricane-lantern-effect/#comment-547877 “Hurricane Lamp Effect” Love it!
There is also the “Calendar Caper”. Our as astronomy club buys calendars from Astronomy magazine to re-sell to our members. Every year some genius suggests we make our own using our members images. So, I ask, do you know how much it would cost to print them? No (they never researched the cost). Do you know how many we sell every year? No(they never asked me). Who will collect, edit and put together the calendar for printing? (Um, someone, but not them).
Like Tomah, you get tired of explaining it over & over again to the “dumb asses”.

]]> By: Bodach https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/07/the-hurricane-lantern-effect/#comment-547876 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:25:09 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/07/the-hurricane-lantern-effect/#comment-547876 Of course, you don’t have to go all the way to Africa to act like a know it all. Whenever you think you know more than the people who have been “x”ing for a while, you’re wrong.

]]> By: Markk https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/07/the-hurricane-lantern-effect/#comment-547875 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:43:39 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/07/the-hurricane-lantern-effect/#comment-547875 Ha Ha, You know “junk DNA” was what popped into my mind as I was reading this, believe it or not. Here come fresh humans with their analysis of DNA and we see all this waste and all this junk, it seems. The more and more we understand the more and more things aren’t so wasteful. I think the Hurricane Lamp principle might be pretty widely applicable.

Anywhere elaborate procedures or, for example, algorithms in computer programs have had, call it, selection pressure on them, they get quirks that to someone without context look inefficient. That is part of why old highly used code always looks like junk to a new person coming in, and as programmers get real experience you see them leaving things alone. The reason is they don’t want to have to relearn all the context around a program unless they have to.

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