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And communism would work if only people would do it properly. It seems to me that kind of argument could be made about anything. "It only didn't work because yo
by facepalm 11y ago
And communism would work if only people would do it properly. It seems to me that kind of argument could be made about anything. "It only didn't work because you didn't do it properly".
Doesn't it work for Homeopathy, too? "It would have worked if you hadn't passed it through the x-ray scanner at the airport" or "it would have worked if you had taken the medicine while doing a handstand".
In the end doing it right becomes so complicated that you need to hire an expert to do it for you. Wonder if that was the point all along - basically marketing.
- Ace17 11y agoSome disciplines are hard to do properly, and easy to do wrong. It's a mistake to dismiss them just because the return on investment isn't immediate. We're mostly programmers here, we're not supposed to be afraid of steep learning curves!
- facepalm 11y agoSure, although my heuristic for trying new Software methodology tends to be "does it make things simpler?". That article made my head hurt...
- jacques_chester 11y agoThe communism analogy is better than the homeopathy analogy. The former makes problematic assumptions about human nature, the latter impossible assumptions about physical reality. That said, I work in a company where TDD is the default. So far everything still works and there are no tanks rolling into any public squares to squash the bourgeois scourge.