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Lying, deceit and self-deception makes crap code.
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Do programmers make crap liars?
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Lying, deceit and self-deception makes crap code.
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Be true to the cod
Carp code?
Most of us have a personal life quite distinct from our ptofessional life, (the occasional glimpses on here are often fascinating), so I don't see why not.
But in our professional life it is true that, unlike many people's professional lives, there is such a thing as objective truth and it cannot be BS'ed away.
I think that's why accountants can sometimes make good users: they live in the same professional world, where if it's wrong it's wrong, no two ways about it.
That scientific nature of it is one of the things I like about computers. Sometimes it is possible to win an argument just by being right.
But in our professional life it is true that, unlike many people's professional lives, there is such a thing as objective truth and it cannot be BS'ed away.
I think that's why accountants can sometimes make good users: they live in the same professional world, where if it's wrong it's wrong, no two ways about it.
That scientific nature of it is one of the things I like about computers. Sometimes it is possible to win an argument just by being right.
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When I was a PM in a previous life before getting back to what I love, the developing, many a time I heard programmers tell me that everything was working and UAT/regression tests passed etc....
Lying bar stewards!!
So I think programmers must have a natural propencity for throwing some large untruths around.
Lying bar stewards!!
So I think programmers must have a natural propencity for throwing some large untruths around.
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When I was a PM in a previous life before getting back to what I love, the developing, many a time I heard programmers tell me that everything was working and UAT/regression tests passed etc....
Lying bar stewards!!
So I think programmers must have a natural propencity for throwing some large untruths around.
The better they are, the less fibs they (need to) tell though.
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When I was a PM in a previous life before getting back to what I love, the developing, many a time I heard programmers tell me that everything was working and UAT/regression tests passed etc....
Lying bar stewards!!
So I think programmers must have a natural propencity for throwing some large untruths around.
Learn to ask the right questions - some developers can be devious bastards!
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For example:
RelMan: You are not trying to pass this pile of steaming tulip as being "Tested" are you?
DBD: <visible wince and slight twitch> It. has. undergone. a. full. regression. test. and. no. defects. are. outstanding.
RelMan: Bollox
DBD: <visible wince and slight twitch> It. has. undergone. a. full. regression. test. and. no. defects. are. outstanding.
Programmers tend to be black and white with no nuance or shades of grey.
That makes them crap at human relationships and therefore very few rise to positions of power in the industry whereby they may improve it.
The resultant vacuum at the top is filled by people with better "human" skills but little technical knowledge who then cock up big projects.
And so the cycle continues.
That makes them crap at human relationships and therefore very few rise to positions of power in the industry whereby they may improve it.
The resultant vacuum at the top is filled by people with better "human" skills but little technical knowledge who then cock up big projects.
And so the cycle continues.
