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What Apple needs is to invest in reviewers that are also good developers who can then spend half their time reviewing apps and the other half developing tools a

What Apple needs is to invest in reviewers that are also good developers who can then spend half their time reviewing apps and the other half developing tools and processes for improving the review process.

_qulr 6y ago
I'm no longer engaging with you, because you completely rewrote your comment after I replied to it. That's highly misleading to readers. The reply below should be flagged and moderated for completely unacceptable behavior.
- sjwright 6y ago
  When it comes to development as a creative skill, good developers know that being deeply involved in the problem helps them to build the best possible solutions. Bad developers are the brilliant ones who already have so much expertise and intelligence that they don't need to get their hands dirty. Their solutions will tend to be engineered to perfection—and inferior. ——— Edited amendment ——— Note: the following was my response to these paragraphs by lapcatsoftware which he subsequently deleted. I've kept it here because I think it helps explain my point for other people. > What does this even mean... > Would you suggest that Craig Federighi spend > half his time on app review? If not, then who? > It's all too easy to say that someone (not me) > should do the unpleasant thing. The best way to understand an undefined problem is to live it. When you don't have a bounded problem space, e.g. "we need software solutions that will help improve the efficiency, consistency and quality of our app review process" then half the job of a developer is creative and explorative, not performative. Internal tools don't need to be finely crafted pieces of excellence, they need to make the lives of the people using it better. If I was building a team to improve Apple's processes, I'd task a dozen developers to live the problem for a while and then have a dozen solo missions to build tools which make their lives easier. Suggesting that when I said "good developers" I meant Craig Federighi—let alone anyone with the skill to make significant positive contributions to an operating system core—is absurd and disingenuous. I'm talking about the B+ developers here, not superstars or executives. You might say that App Store reviewing is beneath you, but I think that's short-sighted. I think it would be fascinating.
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_qulr 6y ago

I'm no longer engaging with you, because you completely rewrote your comment after I replied to it. That's highly misleading to readers. The reply below should be flagged and moderated for completely unacceptable behavior.

sjwright 6y ago
When it comes to development as a creative skill, good developers know that being deeply involved in the problem helps them to build the best possible solutions. Bad developers are the brilliant ones who already have so much expertise and intelligence that they don't need to get their hands dirty. Their solutions will tend to be engineered to perfection—and inferior. ——— Edited amendment ——— Note: the following was my response to these paragraphs by lapcatsoftware which he subsequently deleted. I've kept it here because I think it helps explain my point for other people. > What does this even mean... > Would you suggest that Craig Federighi spend > half his time on app review? If not, then who? > It's all too easy to say that someone (not me) > should do the unpleasant thing. The best way to understand an undefined problem is to live it. When you don't have a bounded problem space, e.g. "we need software solutions that will help improve the efficiency, consistency and quality of our app review process" then half the job of a developer is creative and explorative, not performative. Internal tools don't need to be finely crafted pieces of excellence, they need to make the lives of the people using it better. If I was building a team to improve Apple's processes, I'd task a dozen developers to live the problem for a while and then have a dozen solo missions to build tools which make their lives easier. Suggesting that when I said "good developers" I meant Craig Federighi—let alone anyone with the skill to make significant positive contributions to an operating system core—is absurd and disingenuous. I'm talking about the B+ developers here, not superstars or executives. You might say that App Store reviewing is beneath you, but I think that's short-sighted. I think it would be fascinating.
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