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This is the response from a perfectionist who will never ship code on their own. It's a bad trait to have in a developer.
by sys_64738 3y ago
This is the response from a perfectionist who will never ship code on their own. It's a bad trait to have in a developer.
- tambourine_man 3y agoBill Atkinson shipped. Like, a lot, by any metric.
- sodapopcan 3y agoStrong disagree, we need more of this. The "move fast and break stuff" is exactly why we end up with companies full of dispensable employees who writer sloppy code they don't care about.
- ChristopherDrum 3y agoMaybe read a little bit about the man first. Atkinson invented double-clicking, the selection lasso, MacPaint, QuickDraw, and HyperCard. When Steve Jobs was asked how many man-years QuickDraw took to develop, he asked Atkinson how long it took him. Atkinson said, "four years" so Jobs responded to the reporter, "Twenty-four man-years." Yes, Jobs was a hype machine for the Mac team, but he (and everyone around him) also knew that one Atkinson year was the equivalent of six typical developer years. https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Mythical_Man_Year.txt https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...