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I feel it in my waters
A few days ago I was listening to a recording of a design discussion, and I was at two minds about what was going on in my mind when I said some of the things that I said. I found myself in the odd position of both remembering my reasoning and listening to them as an outsider. It gave me some insight to the way I think. It is not really an analytical process.
There is a lot based on the taste of the idea. I am sorry, I am not sure how to express it in any other way. I decide on the idea/design based on how it feel. There was a lot of that in the discussion, for instance. I can usually explain my initial response when I give it some thought, luckily.
At one point there were about two minutes of failed design attempts, we can do X and then... hm, not that is too complex, so we will do Y which would... no, that doesn't handle the Foo requirement, etc.
It is partly preference, partly experience and partly the appliance of good habits learned from painful experiments.
Interesting experience...
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That's the gut feeling.
Some design decisions are too complex to be calculated through logically. So we give them up to the subconsciousness. It does some analysis in the "black box" and then gives us the result.
And as any "black box" solution - it just works, but it is really hard to explain why and how it does work.
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