Articles tagged “thoughts”

• Freedom of choice Scott Adams re­cent­ly wrote an ar­ti­cle called [Would You Take Or­ders From Ma­chines?][1]. Al­though the idea is in­ter­est­ing, my hum­ble opin­ion is that Scott is miss­ing the point. The first prob­lem with his ar­ti­cle is the use of the term “or­ders”. We…
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• Teaching patterns Col­lege de­grees in IT-re­lat­ed dis­ci­plines are known for not teach­ing some cru­cial things that every de­vel­op­er should know. Many stu­dents may be proud of con­tribut­ing to dozens of pro­jects, but don't…
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• Control Hu­man be­ings want to con­trol every­thing. Their lives, oth­er peo­ple, things around them, events which can af­fect them in any way. The il­lu­sion of con­trol gives them cer­tain­ty, the feel­ing of or­der, the…
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• Official version control, competing systems and free market The way ver­sion con­trol ser­vice is or­ga­nized with­in many cor­po­ra­tions is that there is an op­er­a­tions de­part­ment which is in charge of the of­fi­cial sys­tem, and, de­pend­ing on the com­pa­ny, de­vel­op­ers are ei­ther forced to use this sys­tem, or are sim­ply…
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• XY-problem and project estimates A year ago, I was work­ing as an ar­chi­tect and IT con­sul­tant with a com­pa­ny on a large soft­ware pro­ject. The pro­ject was es­ti­mat­ed by their in-house lead de­vel­op­er, and I was asked to re­view the es­ti­mate to check if it's cor­rect. The only prob­lem was…
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• “T-shaped” people model misuse In Hand­book for new em­ploy­ees (PDF, 4 MB), Valve in­tro­duced on page 47 a con­cept of “T-shaped” peo­ple. What it means that peo­ple who want to work at Valve are ex­pect­ed to be both gen­er­al­ists—“high­ly skilled at a broad set of valu­able things” and…
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