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by demian 14y ago
"Right Brain" people stil believe in the dichotomy of "creative" people and "non-creative" people (they still use the outdate terms "Right Brain" and "Left Brain"), probably because they associate technical work with mental computations and
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by demian 14y ago
Why not embrace it? It's not all negative. God knows that, as well as other STEM careers, we need less social stigma.
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by demian 14y ago
They are aesthetically obtrusive, so I doubt they'll have any kind of mass adoption.
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by demian 14y ago
Everybody should learn to code, in the same way everybody should learn physics. It's basic cultural and scientific knowledge. But that doesn't mean everybody should be a Mechanical Engineer.
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by demian 14y ago
It's interesting to see how the word "Design" is getting a more and more specific definition related to people and cognition. As an engineer, I'm starting to be forced to call my designs "engineering designs", because people already associa
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by demian 14y ago
I hope only the best frameworks and tools, written by the best programmers, get stadarized, so the application developers can focus on business logic, data science/engineering and interaction design with a robust abstraction below.
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by demian 14y ago
This saved me when I had to write a P2P file distribution system for a project in college.
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by demian 14y ago
Next time a lawyer, a doctor or an architect tells me his/her professional opinion, I'm going to answer them "sorry GEEK, that's the way it is!"
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by demian 14y ago
Version Control is a concepts that every dicipline, that needs to manage documents, should try to implement.
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by demian 14y ago
Thanks for sharing! Of course this is mainly semantics, but I don't agree with the way the post uses the terms "scientist" and "engineer". In my opinion, the difference between "scientist" and "engineer" lies in the nature of the work they
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by demian 14y ago
Abut the programmer/engineer dichotomy: He uses the word "programmer" only for people that write code, and the word "engineer" for people that design technical solutions. Somebody can be both, a "programmer" and an "engineer", but a "progra
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by demian 14y ago
Because, from a business perspective, programmers are workers.
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by demian 14y ago
The most important point here is the proposition that design should be finished before any coding starts. Thanks to the rise of user experience and interaction design the Waterfall backlash is starting to wear off, and the Agile hype gettin
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by demian 14y ago
What if there isn't causality, but something more systemic, a vicious circle, a negative feedback loop?
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by demian 14y ago
To be fair, he is clearly talking only in the context of web design and development(engineering). I don't think he is shortsighted per se, only overreaching with his post title.
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by demian 14y ago
For quite some time now, the development of software engineering has been making economically viable for some programming tasks to be preformed by Technicians, this is not new. But it is nice to see people starting to accept this. And this
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by demian 14y ago
Yes, design (not engineering design but "artsy" design where human perception is a big factor) is fluffy. But that doesn't imply it's bullshit.
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by demian 14y ago
You seem to be describing, basically, overengineering applied to visual design. For a developer, an example of equivalent behaviour is being overzealous about a specific programming paradigm. Things that can't be directly quantified in busi
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by demian 14y ago
Programming is like Drawing. Drawing the blueprint of an engine is not the same as understanding the fundamentals of physics and engine design. And it's not the same as drawing a portrait, a building or a landscape.
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by demian 14y ago
Yeah, most of them ex-programmers turned either "Data Scientists" or "Business Analyst/Consultants". From a career perspective, most of my friends had to prove that their time as programmers didn't "hurt" their potential to think in terms o
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by demian 14y ago
There seems two be 2 main fields that you must domain at a fundamental level: Statistics and Business. Stats, because it is the science of fiding information in data. Get a knack for the basic models, and work your way to the harder and mor
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by demian 14y ago
> Exactly where the government was on the spectrum is open to debate, but I don't think you can say that they "weren't Communist" as though that's a boolean flag that's either true or false. Of course I can't. My comment was a reply. My
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by demian 14y ago
Where did you got that data? According to the IMF Brazil is 6th world-wide, while Chile is 39, even lower than the other key player of the region: Argentina (27).
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by demian 14y ago
But then, again: 1) Almost every other country in Latin America suffered from a military coup based on the same ideological grounds, that applied almost the same policies. They all suffered an "intervention", and not all ended up like Chile
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by demian 14y ago
But Chile was not a communist country. The dream of a "mechanical centralized control" was shared by a lot of people in the XX century. It's strongly featured in positivistic SciFi literature of the time, for example I, Robot from Asimov.
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by demian 14y ago
What they "said" they were was not what they became (by current definitions). There are a lot of European countries ruled by socialist parties, and they are not communist by any stretch of the imagination.
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by demian 14y ago
Probably nothing. But companies that either choose or are "forced" into this will probably start to differentiate "software engineers" from "programmers" (treating the latters as just a "technical labour").
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by demian 14y ago
That's because in "high brow software engineering", coding is for "workers" (as in "construction workers").
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by demian 14y ago
But "activities" are not "phases". You are always trying to get the requirements right, the difference is that some people get them while coding, and others before even start designing.
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by demian 14y ago
We need to drop the idea that there is THE methodology to organize software development. I like the approach of this post, but I would had prefered a little more context on the type of projects he manages. A professional software manager sh

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