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"Wizard, Engineer" reminds me of Yegge's "Software Liberal/Conservative" approach to risk. https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/KaSKeg4vQtz https
by rgoulter 8y ago
"Wizard, Engineer" reminds me of Yegge's "Software Liberal/Conservative" approach to risk.
https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/KaSKeg4vQtz https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/KaSKeg4v...
Albeit, rather than "wizards like implicit/magic, engineers prefer explicit/boilerplate/maintainability", the difference Yegge suggests was management of risk.
- matfil 8y agoThanks, that's a pretty interesting take. (Also a reminder that we're probably going to lose some interesting stuff when Google+ goes kaboom...)