<story><title>San Francisco Is Requiring Solar Panels on All New Buildings</title><url>https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/san-francisco-require-solar-panels-buildings</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quanticle</author><text>Yet somehow despite wrangling with it for hundreds of years, they manage to do a worse job than most entry-level programmers.</text></item><item><author>matt4077</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s also the reason why tech people shouldn&amp;#x27;t be so dismissive of politicians, lawyers or the social sciences: they&amp;#x27;ve been wrangling this shit for hundreds of years.</text></item><item><author>eldavido</author><text>Another thing: this is why we (tech) need to engage with politics.&lt;p&gt;If there&amp;#x27;s one thing we really understand, it&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;complexity&lt;/i&gt;: why it sucks, how to avoid it, and how piling on rule after rule can make the legal code &amp;quot;unmaintainable&amp;quot; (sound familiar?)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdmichal</author><text>Let&amp;#x27;s see how well &lt;i&gt;any&lt;/i&gt; programmer, much less an entry-level one, handles an indeterminate execution environment... It&amp;#x27;s like C++, except every line has potentially undefined behavior.</text></comment>
<story><title>San Francisco Is Requiring Solar Panels on All New Buildings</title><url>https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/san-francisco-require-solar-panels-buildings</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quanticle</author><text>Yet somehow despite wrangling with it for hundreds of years, they manage to do a worse job than most entry-level programmers.</text></item><item><author>matt4077</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s also the reason why tech people shouldn&amp;#x27;t be so dismissive of politicians, lawyers or the social sciences: they&amp;#x27;ve been wrangling this shit for hundreds of years.</text></item><item><author>eldavido</author><text>Another thing: this is why we (tech) need to engage with politics.&lt;p&gt;If there&amp;#x27;s one thing we really understand, it&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;complexity&lt;/i&gt;: why it sucks, how to avoid it, and how piling on rule after rule can make the legal code &amp;quot;unmaintainable&amp;quot; (sound familiar?)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ep103</author><text>I challenge you to interview more entry-level programmers : )</text></comment>