(December 7, 2018 at 11:15 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Good engineering == the art of compromise.
Yup. It's called trading off requirements for the optimum result. I've worked on tools where there were conflicting requirements. One has to decide which requirements are more important, and design accordingly. This trade space can extend from a pair of pliers all the way to spacecraft, quite a range.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.