Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Alchemy

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Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense by Rory Sutherland My rating: 5 of 5 stars With exception of the obviou...
Monday, December 23, 2019

A Few Good People Are Better Than Many Less Skilled People

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This follows immediately from the idea that People Are The Key To Success , which says that you should always hire the best engineers. This ...
Wednesday, December 18, 2019

People Are The Key To Success

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Highly skilled people with appropriate experience, talent, and training are key to producing software that satisfies user needs ...
Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Understand The Customers' Priorities

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It is quite possible that the customers would rather have 90 percent of the system's functionality late if they could just have 10...
Monday, December 16, 2019

Don't Believe Everything You Read

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As a general rule, people who believe in a particular philosophy search for data that supports that philosophy and discard data that does...
Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Good Management Is More Important Than Good Technology

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Good management motivates people to do their best. Poor management demotivates people. All the great technology in the world will not compen...
Monday, December 09, 2019

Don't Take Errors Personally

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Writing software requires a level of detail and perfection that no human can reach. We should dedicate ourselves to constant improvement, no...
Saturday, December 07, 2019

Analyze Causes For Errors

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Errors are common in software. We spend enormous amounts of resources detecting and fixing them. It is far more cost-effective to reduce ...
Friday, December 06, 2019

Instrument Your Software

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When testing software, it is often difficult to determine why the software failed. One way of uncovering the reasons is to instrument you...
Monday, December 02, 2019

Rust by Jonathan Waldman

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Rust: The Longest War by Jonathan Waldman My rating: 5 of 5 stars Rust (corrosion) is a constant companion to all life on Earth. It seem...