Tools are not the Answer
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I just finished reading an extremely depressing article in The Atlantic entitled: The Coming Software Apocalypse.
Unless the question is, "what will you use to build that house?"
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I just finished reading an extremely depressing article in The Atlantic entitled: The Coming Software Apocalypse.
Unless the question is, "what will you use to build that house?"
Thanks for the link Kent! Hadn't heard of Light Table, downloading and going to kick the tires...looks freakin awesome!
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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I just finished reading an extremely depressing article in The Atlantic entitled: The Coming Software Apocalypse.
Unless the question is, "what will you use to build that house?"
Only tools use tools. Real developers use their brains. Do more with less!
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I just finished reading an extremely depressing article in The Atlantic entitled: The Coming Software Apocalypse.
Unless the question is, "what will you use to build that house?"
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the reason that we are facing a software apocalypse, is that too many programmers think that schedule pressure makes it OK to do a half-assed job.
Good point. But even worse are the facts: most programmers think that taking such shortcuts is generally OK - write code "just good enough", "it runs on my machine". And that's what most managers expect software developers to do: because it's both cheap and fast. Only when the consequences of bad bugs are discovered, some guys will stupidly ask how that could happen and be prevented in future, but of course leaving the fast and cheap path is not acceptable... Welcome, oh software apocalypse!
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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I just finished reading an extremely depressing article in The Atlantic entitled: The Coming Software Apocalypse.
Unless the question is, "what will you use to build that house?"
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I just finished reading an extremely depressing article in The Atlantic entitled: The Coming Software Apocalypse.
Unless the question is, "what will you use to build that house?"
I thought the article was terrible. For example, the engineers I've worked with have been very expert in their vertical markets. (In one company, the lead engineer and CEO knew the market as well, if not better, than the customer. The sales manager, on the other hand, was a moron.) A bigger problem with the article is that the author lumps all software and tools to improve that software together. The solution for software which drives actuators based on sensor input is different than software managing a warehouse which is different from software managing a bank and so on. Then I cracked up when he just accepted the claims that such-and-such system worked. But, he got paid by the word so....
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I just finished reading an extremely depressing article in The Atlantic entitled: The Coming Software Apocalypse.
Unless the question is, "what will you use to build that house?"
Most scientists equate tool use with intelligence. Hmmm.
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