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You are talking about core work. The article is about tangential work, which is just as, if not even more neglected in sw dev. In academia there is at least a t
by poisonborz 3y ago
You are talking about core work. The article is about tangential work, which is just as, if not even more neglected in sw dev. In academia there is at least a tradition of publishing, lecturing and review.
- zelphirkalt 3y agoWhat is core work and what is tangential work?
- poisonborz 3y agoWriting code vs documentation, support, marketing etc.
- graphviz 3y agoThis may be a fallacy. It is all connected. Some of the connections are not obvious at first. It's very tempting to create interesting features for your own edification or satisfaction, and leave them nearly undocumented. Years later, kind-hearted strangers discover these in the code and wonder why no one knows about them. Sometimes, it's like code that you just wrote for yourself might as well not even exist for the rest of the world. That's just one facet of this situation.