Scaling out of trades - by TaylorTree
Rants:
I’ve been a programmer for 10+ years now. This has involved working with many other programmers both old and new. Know what the most common fault I have witnessed over these 10 years? The failure to test ideas. The failure to test programs. We think it should work, so it must. Ha!
Just what do we have against testing? Why do we feel the need to pontificate on things that can easily be tested? It’s a really strange phenomenon that even I’m guilty of from time to time. And I know better!
I think the key is this: Avoid trying to prove an idea with logic and speculation. Use logic and speculation to create ideas and use testing to prove whether those ideas are indeed valid. Maybe logic is not the correct term here. But, I hope you get my meaning.
http://taylortree.com/2005/07/part-ii-scale-fish-not-tra_112262102882143573.html
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