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by JED3 3413 days ago
Perhaps: "My neck beard hurts"??? The guy had an honest question, no point in shunning him.
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That doesn't have to be taken as derogatory or insulting. I can relate, I too find it somewhat sad. I don't think that's a problem with the people who don't know, but a systemic problem where cool and noteworthy things of the past are overshadowed by popular current things that share a similar name. Relevant or interesting history is all too quickly forgotten by the general populace.

As an aside, the most recent example of that I've come across, and much more relevant to current events (to US Americans, at least), was during the most recent Hardcore History podcast. It was pointed out that JFK won after he got a bunch of free press because of how photogenic his family was (which whether it was the reason he won or not probably helped quite a bit). Parallels weren't drawn to current events, but it's not like you need a political science degree to see them, which I found really interesting.

What's wrong with a neck beard?
It runs on a million-year-old (or more) technology which is not developed agile (evolution is the opposite of agile, I would cautiously say?) and most importantly doesn't have a react.js renderer.

Sorry, I know this type of comments are shunned but I couldn't help myself at this point.

Evolution is incredibly agile, while intelligent design follows the waterfall model.

Since intelligent design presupposes that a design was in place before implementation, you'd need a watertight specification to know what you'll need to design. This is pretty much the definition of the waterfall model.

Once you've started with the implementation, you'd not be able to deviate from the spec. If you're God you'd never make an incomplete or incorrect spec, right? By definition that'd be impossible.

With evolution change is introduced iteratively. Each generation contains tweaks and updates, is exposed to a barrage of tests and if it's less adapted to the requirements it's disposed of unceremoniously in favor of a version more suitable. Due to its iterative nature evolution is also able to adapt quickly to changing requirements and good/beneficial features are taken over into the next iteration.

That makes perfect sense! Thank you very much for your thoughtful response!
Maybe evolution is an emergent phenomenon of the spec.