Nick, The Fairily Squared (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} spb_nick) wrote,@ 2008-02-08 22:33:00 |
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Slapping my forehead
I found it in my "literature" directory. I can't remember where I originally have found it. May be it was some of you, my friends, who gave me the link. Yet I haven't managed to read it until today's evening.
This evening I was hiding from my mother's-in-law guests in her room, and being without an Internet connection, I was looking for something interesting to read on my laptop. There it was:
The Silver Bullet:
Why Software Is Bad and What We Can Do to Fix It
To some of you it may seem obvious, but to me (given my lack of CS and/or electronics engineering degree) it was an eye opener (this implies I agree with the author). Although, something tells me that not every university teaches such ideas.
As a plus it is written very well, with attention appetizers placed just at the right places, and it comes down smoothly.
And as for the subject, the idea is so simple, I'm almost slapping my forehead, but I'm not, because I don't think I would come to such conclusions all by myself :)
UPDATE: Well, having finally read it through, I'd admit that mentioning implementation details and throwing in some (fair) marketing at the end, did spoil the impression a bit. But only a tiny bit :)
UPDATE 2: It is unfortunate, but after some researching I've come to a conclusion that the author is simply a science troll :(. Although the ideas behind his writing are mostly right, it seems he has done nothing to make them a reality.
I found it in my "literature" directory. I can't remember where I originally have found it. May be it was some of you, my friends, who gave me the link. Yet I haven't managed to read it until today's evening.
This evening I was hiding from my mother's-in-law guests in her room, and being without an Internet connection, I was looking for something interesting to read on my laptop. There it was:
The Silver Bullet:
Why Software Is Bad and What We Can Do to Fix It
To some of you it may seem obvious, but to me (given my lack of CS and/or electronics engineering degree) it was an eye opener (this implies I agree with the author). Although, something tells me that not every university teaches such ideas.
As a plus it is written very well, with attention appetizers placed just at the right places, and it comes down smoothly.
And as for the subject, the idea is so simple, I'm almost slapping my forehead, but I'm not, because I don't think I would come to such conclusions all by myself :)
UPDATE: Well, having finally read it through, I'd admit that mentioning implementation details and throwing in some (fair) marketing at the end, did spoil the impression a bit. But only a tiny bit :)
UPDATE 2: It is unfortunate, but after some researching I've come to a conclusion that the author is simply a science troll :(. Although the ideas behind his writing are mostly right, it seems he has done nothing to make them a reality.
