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What exactly is his point here? What the hell is measuring software? We don't have a biological software sense, so his analogy doesn't make sense to me from the
by alar44 5y ago
What exactly is his point here? What the hell is measuring software? We don't have a biological software sense, so his analogy doesn't make sense to me from the get go.
Software has many different uses and many things that can be measured. Is he suggesting we should only have one ruler to measure it with? Baking bread, as one of his examples, doesn't only use one ruler, it uses at least 4 (heat, time, weight, volume).
We've had tractors for 200 years, where's our tractor ruler?
Smells like bs to me.
- skybrian 5y agoNo, I think he's just saying that coming up with new ways to measure things that you wouldn't think are measurable might be important. Yes, it's a rather vague and inspirational, a Ted Talk-like speech. Maybe it'd be better to go deeper on the history of thermometers and let people draw their own conclusions.
- aidenn0 5y ago> We don't have a biological software sense, so his analogy doesn't make sense to me from the get go. The long list of people making subjective statements about software quality would seem to demonstrate that we do have a biological software sense.