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The whole reason SV exploded was that people were doing things instead of waiting for the theory to show it can work. That's how software has innovated for 30
by BiteCode_dev 4y ago
The whole reason SV exploded was that people were doing things instead of waiting for the theory to show it can work.
That's how software has innovated for 30 years: by practice.
Giving a price to an economist, the opposite of somebody practicing and producing, is a signal something is going wrong.
- _visgean 4y agodid you read the article? They showed that the economists are designing experiments that lead to new features.
- hoseja 4y agoImplicitly distrusting the beancounters is not a bad thing.
- formerkrogemp 4y agoHey, accountants aren't economists..
- BiteCode_dev 4y agoIndeed, accountant predictions usually end up being true.
- nerdponx 4y agoThere are plenty of economists who do experimental and applied work.
- chiyc 4y agoHiring economists into tech has also been going on for many years at this point. I roomed with a PhD candidate years ago who described fairly established hiring pipelines from Economics PhD programs into industry.