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No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering [pdf]

https://www.cs.unc.edu/techreports/86-020.pdf

#HackerNews #NoSilverBullet #SoftwareEngineering #TechReport #PDF #Insights

There are always tradeoffs.

The art of the tradeoff here is reducing problemicity while getting priorities reasonably straight.

And yes, determining the right value of reasonably is a big part of that art.

#NoSilverBullet

@inkican

@kentpitman
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> the entire theory that markets should be allowed to make decisions (instead of people in the form of government intervening with a heavy hand)

... is indeed imperfect, but getting _governments_ to make good decisions is _very_ hard.
Typically they do no better than markets (and some much worse) _unless_ the people are smart and energetic enough to exert constant pressure on said governments and _that_ is a rarity.

My (not so humble) opinion, of course.

#NoSilverBullet

https://i.imgur.com/ev5Hs0z.png

"the more 'communist' the sharing license used in digital commons, the more capitalist the practice" (Michel Bauwens)

Reminder of how (A)GPL/SSPL licenses paradoxically foster companies via dual-licensing.
Soon I will share solutions to this 🩷
#nosilverbullet #p2pfoundation

https://i.imgur.com/ev5Hs0z.png

"the more 'communist' the sharing license used in digital commons, the more capitalist the practice" (Michel Bauwens)

Reminder of how (A)GPL/SSPL licenses paradoxically foster companies via dual-licensing.
Soon I will share solutions to this 🩷
#nosilverbullet #p2pfoundation

@Kanekotic I think many of the (good) lessons from #agile software development did not transfer well to the wider domain of #project delivery.

#NoSilverBullet

“Brooks, Wirth And Go.”, Fredrik Holmqvist (https://www.fredrikholmqvist.com/posts/brooks-wirth-go/).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28365138

#Programming #PLDI #Go #GoLang #Pascal #Wirth #NiklausWirth #Oberon #FredBrooks #NoSilverBullet #Complexity #Simplicity #Simple #SoftwareCrisis

این مقاله رو (دربارهٔ مدیریت فرایند توسعهٔ نرم‌افزار) امروز صبح تو #قطار خوندم و به قول آقای اسلامی ندوشن، سراچهٔ ذهنم آماس کرد! واقعاً به‌روزرسانی شایسته‌ای بود برای دیدگاه‌های سال ۱۹۸۶.

Yes silver bullet
https://blog.ploeh.dk/2019/07/01/yes-silver-bullet/

البته مقاله برای کسایی هست که قبلاً مقالهٔ کلاسیک No Silver Bullet رو خوندن.

#NoSilverBullet

تا فصل ۵ از این #کتاب جدیده 👆 رو خوندم و به قول آقای ندوشن سراچهٔ ذهنم همش داره آماس می‌کنه 😀
تجربه‌هایی دربارهٔ مدیریت طراحی و ساخت محصول‌های نرم‌افزاری در دهه‌های ۱۹۵۰ و ۱۹۶۰، شصت سال بعدتر همچنان به شدت مفید و معنی‌داره. شگفت‌انگیز نیست؟ 😄
#TheMythicalManMonth
#NoSilverBullet

@TheGibson @tek absolutely true. So we're in a #NoSilverBullet situation, aren't we.

So I'll keep running docker containers and consider them an improvement on security of the systems we're running, even though they are not a security boundary. :)

One thing they help with is defining the interfaces very well. Unless you're doing something completely insane (volume-mount / into the container, etc), you can't get away with being sloppy about this.