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Where do you rate on the scale of Software Politics?

4 points by kator 14y ago

kator 14y ago
After reading Steve Yegge's post on Software Politics (he called it Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus) I wondered what my own place is on this supposed scale. So I slammed all his 18 questions into a form and built some Javascript to tally up and preset the results. It was an interesting observation for me. I'm curious how others score and if they think it's representative of their programming view or if not why etc. I submitted it yesterday but it was a dropbox link and I'm not sure people were comfortable with that so now it's on a github page. My result was: Liberal <---------------------|-----------------------+---------------------------------------------> Conservative Or as a totally unscientific number: -24 I wasn't entirely surprised by this as I'm more of a "get it done" programmer then a "engineer for the moon". That said if real money is at stake (Transaction systems etc.) then I tend to turn to a much more conservative stance etc. I always try to balance the investment of time versus the expected ROI on a project. I prefer to "fail fast" and get something running so the users can beat it to death and we can get to writing the real solution.. :-)
- to3m 14y ago
  I got zero. I'm not even sure why I bothered. Mr Yegge's post is bunk. His idea is interesting only insofar as it manages to so successfully get and keep people's attention. If he doesn't like writing software, he should perhaps switch to picking the articles for popular downmarket weekly magazines.
  - kator 14y ago
    Hmm did you get zero because of a Javascript error? I hacked this together pretty quickly didn't test on every possible browser etc. I think there is something true at the core and he sort of over thinks it all. In my 30 year career I have seen this dichotomy (think Mainframer's -vs- PC Devs) over and over. The part about which language was what is BS IMHO..

4 ms·

Where do you rate on the scale of Software Politics?

4 points by kator 14y ago

kator 14y ago
After reading Steve Yegge's post on Software Politics (he called it Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus) I wondered what my own place is on this supposed scale. So I slammed all his 18 questions into a form and built some Javascript to tally up and preset the results. It was an interesting observation for me. I'm curious how others score and if they think it's representative of their programming view or if not why etc. I submitted it yesterday but it was a dropbox link and I'm not sure people were comfortable with that so now it's on a github page. My result was: Liberal <---------------------|-----------------------+---------------------------------------------> Conservative Or as a totally unscientific number: -24 I wasn't entirely surprised by this as I'm more of a "get it done" programmer then a "engineer for the moon". That said if real money is at stake (Transaction systems etc.) then I tend to turn to a much more conservative stance etc. I always try to balance the investment of time versus the expected ROI on a project. I prefer to "fail fast" and get something running so the users can beat it to death and we can get to writing the real solution.. :-)
- to3m 14y ago
  I got zero. I'm not even sure why I bothered. Mr Yegge's post is bunk. His idea is interesting only insofar as it manages to so successfully get and keep people's attention. If he doesn't like writing software, he should perhaps switch to picking the articles for popular downmarket weekly magazines.
  - kator 14y ago
    Hmm did you get zero because of a Javascript error? I hacked this together pretty quickly didn't test on every possible browser etc. I think there is something true at the core and he sort of over thinks it all. In my 30 year career I have seen this dichotomy (think Mainframer's -vs- PC Devs) over and over. The part about which language was what is BS IMHO..