Effective Engineer – Notes

Post by yanilkr » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 5:36 PM UTC

brucephillips wrote: post #96

yanilkr wrote: post #4

This is effective nonsense. Based on my personal experience, effective engineers I know do not follow a formula like this. This looks like a list of how to be teacher’s pet. A superficial need to be praised by others as effective only takes to “mediocre”.

Perhaps rather than spew vacuous insults, you could describe specifically how effective engineers differ from the descriptions in this post.

Post by yanilkr » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 5:38 PM UTC

plandis wrote: post #98

yanilkr wrote: post #4

This is effective nonsense. Based on my personal experience, effective engineers I know do not follow a formula like this. This looks like a list of how to be teacher’s pet. A superficial need to be praised by others as effective only takes to “mediocre”.

What do effective engineers do then?

Post by kridsdale » Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 10:06 PM UTC

narag wrote: post #204

jyriand wrote: post #159

It's strange how obsessed software engineers are about methods of working. At a surface level it's just: sit down and write the code. But actually there are thousands of programming languages you can choose from; there are build tools, code standards, testing(to TDD or not to TDD) and mental models you have to wrap your head around before you even can start to consider yourself a decent programmer. It's fascinating,…

It's strange how obsessed software engineers are about methods of working. So you are surprised that a bunch of people whose work is to create mental models and automate them are obsessed with creating mental models of their own work and automate it? It's fascinating, but at the same time I wish it was all simpler. Actually it is, IMHO. A lot of the parafernalia around the job is useless obsession indeed. We're just…