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Developers believe research with users is a waste of time. They perceive their product as a coding exercise. To validate their idea, they ask their sister if she likes it. She says yes.
Tomer Sharon • Validating Product Ideas: Through Lean User Research
All of the effort spent deliberating on edge cases and long tails stems from the fact that many junior devs are not actually thinking hard enough about what the experiment should be, and what the metrics should look like.
The goal of building out these probabilistic software systems is not a milestone or a feature. Instead, what we're looking for a... See more
The goal of building out these probabilistic software systems is not a milestone or a feature. Instead, what we're looking for a... See more
Jason Liu • Tips for probabilistic software - jxnl.co
programmers have arrived at a situation where they can be paid large sums of money to pursue an activity that many of them would do in their spare time anyway, in an environment that entails no undue physical exertion or risk.
Adam Barr • The Problem With Software: Why Smart Engineers Write Bad Code (The MIT Press)
Their core developers were brilliant, but they also had a second level of junior developers and offsite or second-site teams that were allowed to slip into an attitude of “code monkey-ness”—micro-focused on building “just this feature,” not thinking about how that single feature would integrate into the whole and unaware that some of the things the
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