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"long-haired weirdos who hung around university labs after hours" How is someone's appearance relevat to the management technique? I've never seen it as a crite
by luciusdomitius 4y ago
"long-haired weirdos who hung around university labs after hours"
How is someone's appearance relevat to the management technique? I've never seen it as a criteria.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/miriamposner/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/miriamposner/ - OK, now it is clear - the author has "immense" experience in both management and software engineering and that's why she tries to describe the situation using the knowledge she has available to herself. What a miserable failure though.
The real question is why people with actual experience in both would read such an article...
- msh 4y agoThe whole quote makes your clip sound different: Some of the most advanced programming, as Clive Thompson notes in his 2019 book Coders, was pushed forward by long-haired weirdos who hung around university labs after hours, hackers who considered themselves as much artisans as logicians. And it was not said in relation to agile.
- luciusdomitius 4y agoWhat does Clive Thompson have to do with software engineering excellence? Could you send me his github. Judging people by their appearance is extremely superficial and guaranteed to bring you tons of problems in any more complex context.
- msh 4y agoDid you actually read the article? What was the judgement in the quote?
- kcplate 4y ago> Could you send me his github. Oh is this is the new measure of success? I better get one then. Used to be we just pointed to the successful products and companies we created, but I guess we are measuring folks now on mostly pointless pet projects that no one is using?