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Randall E. Stross • eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work
Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition, The: Essays On Software Engineering
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Most of the big last gains in software productivity have come from removing artificial barriers that have made the accidental tasks inordinately hard, such as severe hardware constraints, awkward programming languages, lack of machine time. How much of what software engineers now do is still devoted to the accidental, as opposed to the essential? U
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Hacker News
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Apple didn’t invent direct manipulation—a computer scientist named Ben Shneiderman
Ken Kocienda • Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
Teams that work this way are more productive as long as productivity is measured by their ability to create customer value and not just stay busy.
Eric Ries • The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
There's a more extreme variant where you don't just use your software, but are your software. When you only have a small number of users, you can sometimes get away with doing by hand things that you plan to automate later. This lets you launch faster, and when you do finally automate yourself out of the loop, you'll know exactly what to build beca... See more