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Tag Archives: programming
06 Jan 2009
Micromanagement Zombies
The always controversial (well, sometimes, anyway) Jeff Atwood has stirred up his readers again with Are You Creating Micromanagement Zombies? — basically, build teams of good people and trust them — but it’s his use of the quiz from Kathy Sierra’s BrainDeath by Micromanagement: The Zombie Function that irked a number of readers. Both posts [...]
03 Jan 2009
Technical Solutions to Social Problems
“[I]t’s bad to become dependent on technology as a crutch for social problems.” – from a sidebar in Version Control with Subversion. This is a classic issue, which I’ve usually heard phrased as the reprimand “you’re looking for a technical solution to a social problem”. I’ve sometimes used it with another of my favorite maxims: [...]
