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Oh, see, I saw that book after watching dozens of dot-com companies re-implemting common patterns (poorly). Basically under-engineering heck. So, once we had t
by edoceo 6y ago
Oh, see, I saw that book after watching dozens of dot-com companies re-implemting common patterns (poorly). Basically under-engineering heck. So, once we had the book we could shift the conversation and use common terminology.
The discipline is, of course, knowing which spells to cast and when. And it's super useful to see the scroll of common spells.
- zerkten 6y agoA problem in a lot of cases is that for some people, the discipline is about casting spells as opposed to solving problems. It doesn't take a lot of these people to damage projects, but they exist independent of pattern books. If I was going to complain about engineering hell, it'd be about how shallow we investigate these areas. We stop at the immediate technical events, or inappropriate technology choices, instead of getting to the motivations behind it. This gets into a qualitative area that HN readers tend to want to avoid, but these flaws are with the humans and their circumstances.