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This is a very heterogeneous text, pulling in the psychology of perception, economic theory, a description of how regressions work and static analysis of a whol

This is a very heterogeneous text, pulling in the psychology of perception, economic theory, a description of how regressions work and static analysis of a whole host of programing languages along with R snippets on how to perform the analysis. Strikes me more like a manic episode than a useful text.

pieterk 6y ago
It hasn't had enough fruits and vegetables yet, baxter007.
spekcular 6y ago
Yes. I read the entire thing once, about a year ago, when I was bored one night. I don't want to be overly critical of someone's book draft, so let me just say that: A) I don't understand why an entire elementary statistics pseudo-textbook is bolted on at the end, forming the entire back half of the text, and B) the title interested me because it promised concrete information that would improve my own software development, and while I found many things in the first half of the book, I didn't find this. (To be more precise re: point A, I do understand, because the author offers his reasons. I just disagree strongly.) Also, the margins are small to the point of being ridiculous, which made the work annoying to read.
7532yahoogmail 6y ago
Disagree. Somewhat strongly. The last thing we need are more nerds in the pejorative sense that can't see past their particular electrons in their favorite elements in the dirt. You gotta at some point lift your gaze. A major issue at offices for team and divisional level roi and competitiveness is silos and the wrong assumption that everything is technical or should be. Anything to pursuade the pendulum to the middle is a benefit. Anything that helps identify and compose parts into a better whole is good.Specialization and narrow focus are good but only when mediated and integrated. It takes both.
jointpdf 6y ago
You could make your point a lot more constructively if you omitted the denigration of the author’s substantial effort and people who suffer genuine manic episodes (which tend not to be this pretty).
- iratewizard 6y ago
  It might come off as an attack on the author, but to me it's a succinct description. To the author, maybe it will be constructive criticism (if they are even reading). In general, people who set out to create something grand or complex fall short. Successful complex projects I've seen have all started off simple and grown complex slowly out of necessity.

pieterk 6y ago

It hasn't had enough fruits and vegetables yet, baxter007.

spekcular 6y ago

Yes. I read the entire thing once, about a year ago, when I was bored one night. I don't want to be overly critical of someone's book draft, so let me just say that: A) I don't understand why an entire elementary statistics pseudo-textbook is bolted on at the end, forming the entire back half of the text, and B) the title interested me because it promised concrete information that would improve my own software development, and while I found many things in the first half of the book, I didn't find this. (To be more precise re: point A, I do understand, because the author offers his reasons. I just disagree strongly.) Also, the margins are small to the point of being ridiculous, which made the work annoying to read.

7532yahoogmail 6y ago

Disagree. Somewhat strongly. The last thing we need are more nerds in the pejorative sense that can't see past their particular electrons in their favorite elements in the dirt. You gotta at some point lift your gaze. A major issue at offices for team and divisional level roi and competitiveness is silos and the wrong assumption that everything is technical or should be. Anything to pursuade the pendulum to the middle is a benefit. Anything that helps identify and compose parts into a better whole is good.Specialization and narrow focus are good but only when mediated and integrated. It takes both.

jointpdf 6y ago

You could make your point a lot more constructively if you omitted the denigration of the author’s substantial effort and people who suffer genuine manic episodes (which tend not to be this pretty).

iratewizard 6y ago
It might come off as an attack on the author, but to me it's a succinct description. To the author, maybe it will be constructive criticism (if they are even reading). In general, people who set out to create something grand or complex fall short. Successful complex projects I've seen have all started off simple and grown complex slowly out of necessity.