The Problem with Job Titles • Hacker News Board

Re: The Problem with Job Titles

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Post by aaronem » Tue, Feb 17, 2015, 9:40 PM UTC

logfromblammo wrote: post #51

lmm wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When you start dividing responsibilities horizontally like this, IME you end up producing worse software. Being responsible for testing drives you to good design. Being responsible for deployment raises considerations you might otherwise miss. When development and QA are separate it's all too common for only one to have an understanding of the actual customer requirements. Better to slice vertically. Everyone takes r…

If you have ever read about Carrot in Pratchett's Discworld series, you may have a new understanding of laziness. Carrot, you see, is so lazy that he exercises every day, because it is easier to accomplish things in a fit body than in one that is fat and weak. Testing your own code is that sort of laziness. You write automated unit tests so that you will never have to look at or touch that particular bit of code ever…

That's not Carrot, that's Victor whatsisname from Moving Pictures.

Re: The Problem with Job Titles

#102

Post by logfromblammo » Tue, Feb 17, 2015, 9:54 PM UTC

aaronem wrote: post #101

logfromblammo wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you have ever read about Carrot in Pratchett's Discworld series, you may have a new understanding of laziness. Carrot, you see, is so lazy that he exercises every day, because it is easier to accomplish things in a fit body than in one that is fat and weak. Testing your own code is that sort of laziness. You write automated unit tests so that you will never have to look at or touch that particular bit of code ever…

That's not Carrot, that's Victor whatsisname from Moving Pictures .

So it was. Victor Tugelbend. My memory is not what it once was. Or I assume it isn't.

Re: The Problem with Job Titles

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Post by hunglee2 » Wed, Feb 18, 2015, 12:41 AM UTC

Coogle wrote: post #10

Seems like some pretty cool concept. Love the visualisation - quite a different way to think about job descriptions.

thanks Coogle! Our entire thing is that job descriptions actually don't do a great job of the describing. Text is not the best way to describe human work - its too ambiguous, too hard to make / read and entirely reliant on subtext / context. We think the radar plot is a better way. Glad you like the product - stay with us, a lot more to come from us