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Whiplash. The first two sections are about generic software development truisms; from there, for the last section, the author pivots to arguing for his specific
by quotemstr 8y ago
Whiplash. The first two sections are about generic software development truisms; from there, for the last section, the author pivots to arguing for his specific political positions, as if universal truths of software development justify these ideas. Is the author expect to convince anyone who doesn't already agree with him?
- rntz 8y ago> Is the author expect to convince anyone who doesn't already agree with him? Not really. If I wanted to convince skeptics, I would have to make it much longer and more precise, and then it be a very different kind of thing. Maybe I'll do that some other day. The connections between the sections are fairly obscure, I admit. But I think many "universal truths of software development" are instances of more general problems to do with collective decision-making and local optimisation processes, which also produce the problems the last section mentions. I don't have a solution, but in the meantime I'd like to avoid making things worse.