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    Comment #43357221

    Couldn't agree more. I read a book (okay, I half read a book...I couldn't finish it, it was so bad) where the author (a marketer!) argued that software engineers are the most skept…

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    "A truly great engineering organization is one where perfectly normal, workaday software engineers, with decent skills and an ordinary amount of expertise, can consistently move fa…

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    Comment #43357098

    This book legit changed the things I notice as I move about the natural world. Couldn't recommend it more.

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    Comment #43357087

    more of this kinda stuff, please! :)

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    Comment #43188442

    Anybody have something like this at their company?

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    Comment #43188395

    Who are you and what are you trying to sell me? :)

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    Comment #43188368

    I don't know that they're becoming "extinct", but the value some of them once provided, in my experience, has been greatly diminished by saas-enabled marketing infiltration. I mean…

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    Comment #43159169

    Computer science "invents" logic? What do you mean by that? Are you familiar with the philosophy of logic and philosophical logic? Or formal semantics, which utilizes tools from th…

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    Comment #43118952

    R.I.P Mr Graeber. What a gem of a thinker.

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    Comment #43118921

    We can apply logic to anything and everything. What makes computer science singularly deserving of this label?

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    Comment #43114759

    "At a high level, our informants described great software engineers as people who are passionate about their jobs." Curious to know this group's thoughts: Do you believe that passi…

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    Love reading these sorts of "technical problem + solution" pieces. The world does not need more content, in general, but it does need more of this kind of quality information shari…

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    Comment #42924834

    Love this. Would love to see some type of grounded-theory qualitative analysis of Developer Philosophies of many senior software practitioners - can imagine what common themes woul…

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