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Husafan
19y ago
If my mother wants to know what I am doing, she will call me. People who do not spend most of their time in front of a computer will call their friends directly, rather than checking Twitter. Only the stereotypical geek sees an advantage in
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19y ago
Not to say that every project needs to be planned like NASA, but I would like to know how many start-ups have calculated their acceptable rate of failure (in their software) prior to launch.
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19y ago
This is one of the coolest things I have ever read. Thanks to OP.
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19y ago
Point taken. :) Let me ever so humbly posit, however, that this is the exact attitude that separates software developers from software engineers. If you want to develop software without strict practices, that's just dandy, and you don't hav
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19y ago
Would you agree that chip design, via a EE degree, is in fact an engineering discipline? It uses metrics, tolerances, correctness, etc, just like a civil engineer has when building a bridge. Software is simply a layer of abstraction on top