When There’s an Audience, People’s Performance Improves
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When There’s an Audience, People’s Performance Improves
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Re: When There’s an Audience, People’s Performance Improves
#2I wonder, could this apply to open source? Do we build better code if it's open source because it has more of an audience?
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#3With people working remotely and companies abandoning open floor plans, I think a lot of people might disagree. Privacy seems to increase productivity through lower distractions and stress, at least for me.
Re: When There’s an Audience, People’s Performance Improves
#4I wonder, could this apply to open source? Do we build better code if it's open source because it has more of an audience?
I write better open source code because I take as much time as I like to feel satisfied with the result, which isn't an option in a proprietary corporate setting.
Although having an audience also motivates me to keep my standards high for what I'm satisfied with.
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#5With people working remotely and companies abandoning open floor plans, I think a lot of people might disagree. Privacy seems to increase productivity through lower distractions and stress, at least for me.
I think the more important audience for programmers isn't those who see your face but those who see your code.
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#6I wonder, could this apply to open source? Do we build better code if it's open source because it has more of an audience?
I saw it happen to me. At work I wrote some libraries, which would be seen by just a couple of coworkers, and I thought I worked hard on them. Years later I wrote a small JavaScript function to put on Github, and I just couldn't leave it alone, cleaning it up, tweaking it here and there, knowing that smart people from all around the world might see it and judge me by it.
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#7I wonder, could this apply to open source? Do we build better code if it's open source because it has more of an audience?
I think the answer to that would be no since we've seen that Open Source projects contain the same amount and type of errors as most proprietary code.
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#8I wonder, could this apply to open source? Do we build better code if it's open source because it has more of an audience?
Yes, but for different reasons. If I write a small tool for myself, I'm willing to live with some idiosyncrasies. But if I'm Going to release it to the siteId, then I need to fix those issues. It is the 80-20 rule. I'm willing to do the 80% for myself, but a release takes the other 20%.
I don't think this has anything to do with open source. Just whether you will release the product to the world.
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#9The research on this is not new, and it’s not as simple as this. If you give people a task that’s well-rehearsed for them, that they’re good at, they’ll tend to do better. But if you give them something less well-rehearsed, something that’s “hard,” they do worse. I wish I had my psychology textbooks on hand for the references, but a lot of this stuff isn’t obvious until after-the-fact.
Re: When There’s an Audience, People’s Performance Improves
#10Basically about 75% of being a manager. To be an audience.