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what's the accepted norm these days?
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#263The fact that I agree with all of this just makes me sadder at how it was presented. Thanks for building a handy straw man for the methodology developers to attack. I flagged this --- it's virtually content free --- but that's a futile gesture given how susceptible HN is to this particular form of social engineering.
You could always write your own, more politely worded, manifesto.
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Love the irony: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2303854
I wish there was a flag like flagging, but instead of "flag" it would say "Does Not Understand The Word Irony". Actually, I'd settle for just a "Wrong" badge. I'd probably Wrong your post, then UnWrong it so I could Wrong it again.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irony
5. an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected.
6. the incongruity of this.
Seems fine to me.
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#268I'm currently tasked with cleaning up a project which no one can explain how it all worked because none of the Programming Motherfuckers bothered to write any Documentation, Motherfucker.
Is software good at amplifying or replacing people? The idea that a system (software or whatever) of any complexity could lose every person involved in it, exist without problems by itself, and then new people could easily pick it up solely with the help of documentation is laughable.
Software tends to be good at amplifying people, where the people involved don't need ... skills.
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#269I've always felt project management should just be 1 person going to each programmer/designer on the team and saying "Hi, are you on schedule? Do you need me to clear any roadblocks or clarify any requirements for you? No? Good day to you, sir." That is effective project management. Anything else is just spinning your wheels.
Second time today I am quoting this from "Peopleware" by DeMarco and Lister: Sharon knew what all good instinctive managers know: The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work. That actually comes after this anecdote: One snowy day, I dragged myself out of a sickbed to pull together our shaky sys- tem for a user demo. Sharon came in and found me propped up at the consol…
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What single project requires more than 5-10 programmers? Places with 1,000 developers spread throughout are working on hundreds of interacting projects. But, the communication and coordination isn't between all 1,000 developers.
www.linux.org/
They don't all work on the same part of the kernel.