Re:Many "software engineering" books are trash.
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As long as there are boxes, lines and a legend that give me a good visual representation of a software systems's architecture, I'm happy. I'd rather be spending my time eating cheerios than learning about different shapes, arrows and little stick people. Alas, I find that I'm forced to learn it because our company loves complying with standards.
Re:Becuase People don't know what they want!
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Isn't that precisely why we have a discipline called software engineering? Prioritizing then freezing requirements isn't all that difficult.
Reminds me of a phone interview I had a few months ago with a company in SF. Everything goes great and the questions were nice and relevant, then we get to the very end and the guy asks if I have any questions for him. So I say "I'm interested in knowing what kind of stuff you tend to work on". "My job is boring" somehow slips out of his mouth after which he tries hard to cover it up. Right there and then I knew I wasn't going to get the job because a VP had just effectively dissed his own company.
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As long as there are boxes, lines and a legend that give me a good visual representation of a software systems's architecture, I'm happy. I'd rather be spending my time eating cheerios than learning about different shapes, arrows and little stick people. Alas, I find that I'm forced to learn it because our company loves complying with standards.
Isn't that precisely why we have a discipline called software engineering? Prioritizing then freezing requirements isn't all that difficult.
Reminds me of a phone interview I had a few months ago with a company in SF. Everything goes great and the questions were nice and relevant, then we get to the very end and the guy asks if I have any questions for him. So I say "I'm interested in knowing what kind of stuff you tend to work on". "My job is boring" somehow slips out of his mouth after which he tries hard to cover it up. Right there and then I knew I wasn't going to get the job because a VP had just effectively dissed his own company.