Nikita Prokopov has written a blog post detailing disenchantment with current software development. He has been writing software for 15 years and now regards the industry’s growing lack of care for efficiency, simplicity, and excellence as a problem to be solved. He addresses the following points one by one:
(Score: 3, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday October 04 2018, @04:00AM
there is just too much source, and not enough eyeballs that actually lift a finger - or rather, an eyelid - to inspect that source.
Instead we have my experience with gedit on Slackware a while back, where all the text that was below the visible part of the window simply disappeared into the ether.
Yes really: you could type The Great American Novel into a very very tall window, but when you scrolled back up after typing "The End" you would find that the last page was all that remained.
"Release early and often" is in my opinion the problem and not the solution.
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