Comments for Enjoy Chaos http://blog.thiagoarrais.com Thoughts, ideas and useless ranting about software development and technology Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:19:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on BTUF by Basilia Alanis http://blog.thiagoarrais.com/2007/03/09/btuf/comment-page-1/#comment-114 Basilia Alanis Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:19:46 +0000 http://blog.thiagoarrais.com/?p=3#comment-114 It is much simpler to post about matters that run well, or looked good on the outside. When we switched over to Extreme Programming a few years past, we made crucial mistakes taking for granted that automated testing was adequate, and shipped several terrible releases. We studied to a greater extent around testing (and how to improve it) from those bad releases than from the following good releases. It is much simpler to post about matters that run well, or looked good on the outside. When we switched over to Extreme Programming a few years past, we made crucial mistakes taking for granted that automated testing was adequate, and shipped several terrible releases. We studied to a greater extent around testing (and how to improve it) from those bad releases than from the following good releases.

]]> Comment on BTUF by Seth Eliot http://blog.thiagoarrais.com/2007/03/09/btuf/comment-page-1/#comment-87 Seth Eliot Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:08:30 +0000 http://blog.thiagoarrais.com/?p=3#comment-87 I thought I was clever to come up with BTUF: http://blogs.msdn.com/seliot/archive/2010/01/20/building-services-the-death-of-big-up-front-testing-buft.aspx But you beat me by a couple of years. Good stuff. I thought I was clever to come up with BTUF:
http://blogs.msdn.com/seliot/archive/2010/01/20/building-services-the-death-of-big-up-front-testing-buft.aspx

But you beat me by a couple of years. Good stuff.

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]]> Comment on From entrepreneur (back to?) employee by Robert Dempsey http://blog.thiagoarrais.com/2009/08/17/from-entrepreneur-back-to-employee/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Robert Dempsey Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:11:05 +0000 http://blog.thiagoarrais.com/?p=16#comment-31 Hi Thiago, Thanks for the link. From my experience it is hard for an entrepreneurial person like myself to get hired into a full-time position. I believe it is for a number of reasons, including the ones that you mention in your post. Some companies are looking for a person to fill a specific role. If I did one thing and one thing only, day in and day out, I'd freak out. Finding a position that offers the chaos I love is not easy. I'm happy to report that during my search for a full-time job I've gotten a contract position with a great local firm. This position allows me to operate my business while helping them improve operations and brace for rapid scaling. Very cool stuff. Thank you again for your thoughts on this and the link. Hi Thiago,

Thanks for the link. From my experience it is hard for an entrepreneurial person like myself to get hired into a full-time position. I believe it is for a number of reasons, including the ones that you mention in your post. Some companies are looking for a person to fill a specific role. If I did one thing and one thing only, day in and day out, I’d freak out. Finding a position that offers the chaos I love is not easy.

I’m happy to report that during my search for a full-time job I’ve gotten a contract position with a great local firm. This position allows me to operate my business while helping them improve operations and brace for rapid scaling. Very cool stuff.

Thank you again for your thoughts on this and the link.

]]> Comment on Hiding suckyness by Andrew Cady http://blog.thiagoarrais.com/2009/02/17/hiding-suckyness/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Andrew Cady Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:32:52 +0000 http://blog.thiagoarrais.com/?p=6#comment-5 It all depends on how available you want to make your tool. The more specialization your tool requires of its users, the fewer users your tool will be capable of having. For example, MediaWiki's version control is idiot proof, allowing the world's idiots to create Wikipedia. In this case there is no doing away with them: there are not enough non-idiots in the world (i.e., people who will ever learn git) to write something as big as Wikipedia. My point is only that excluding "idiots" (non-specialists) is not always desirable or even possible. It all depends on how available you want to make your tool. The more specialization your tool requires of its users, the fewer users your tool will be capable of having. For example, MediaWiki’s version control is idiot proof, allowing the world’s idiots to create Wikipedia. In this case there is no doing away with them: there are not enough non-idiots in the world (i.e., people who will ever learn git) to write something as big as Wikipedia.

My point is only that excluding “idiots” (non-specialists) is not always desirable or even possible.

]]> Comment on Hiding suckyness by Francisco Trindade http://blog.thiagoarrais.com/2009/02/17/hiding-suckyness/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Francisco Trindade Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:11:56 +0000 http://blog.thiagoarrais.com/?p=6#comment-4 Agreed, but IMO we still have to realize that people make mistakes. It doesnt matter how professional and competent you are, there is always room to be wrong some times. That's kind my view about git. It is really good and I will still use it, but it allows you to do wrong things really easily, what could sometimes be a bad idea. Cheers, Francisco Agreed, but IMO we still have to realize that people make mistakes.

It doesnt matter how professional and competent you are, there is always room to be wrong some times.

That’s kind my view about git. It is really good and I will still use it, but it allows you to do wrong things really easily, what could sometimes be a bad idea.

Cheers,
Francisco

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