Perhaps. But it can be brilliant too.
A (cheap) stool with 4 legs will always wobble.
A stool with 3 legs is stable.
Frank
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From: "jb-electronics" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 11:55 PM
Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Re: OT: Muntzing
Oh, so my first impression was correct, Muntzing has a bad connotation.
Maybe this should be added to the Wikipedia article?
This Muntzing reminds me of a friend of mine who - when he had to program
something, which he was really bad at - copied a fully functional routine
from some resource and then started removing code passage after code
passage until the program either crashed or worked as he wanted ;-)
Regards,
Jens
Am 08.08.2011 23:49, schrieb Jeff Thomas:
There is a vast difference between reducing your manufacturing costs
and "Muntzing".
I've not used the term "muntzing" in many years. The last time I did
was when a marketing fleeb sat in on an engineering meeting with the
belief our EE/ME staff were taking too long on a complex project that
was running over budget. I stated that we needed his muntzing skills
to whittle down the cost and still have it work...;) He understood it
as a warm compliment.
As Nick described, it was a hack method to eliminate components to the
minimum and still maintain some level of function.
It may have cut fabrication costs by a small degree, but was also
synonymous with being cheap and poorly engineered.
Nothing a self respecting engineer would want to hang his hat on.
And like Terry says;
A Professional Engineer may spend as much time designing the product
to minimize cost, as they do in designing it's function.
Regards, Jeff
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