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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 02:50:47 JST Paul Cantrell

   Oh, this is so good!

   It’s presented as being about video games, but it’s really about all software:
   https://lizengland.com/blog/2014/04/the-door-problem/

   (ht to my colleague Bret Jackson for the link)

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 02:53:33 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Jenniferplusplus

     That link above is perhaps the most easily accessible general audience explanation I’ve seen of what @jenniferplusplus is talking about when she says that:

     ❝The fundamental task of software development is not writing out the syntax that will execute a program. The task is to build a mental model of that complex system, make sense of it, and manage it over time.❞
     https://jenniferplusplus.com/losing-the-imitation-game/

     The code is the easy part. It’s the questions.

     Next time somebody doesn’t get that, they get the door link.

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     Stu (tehstu@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 03:07:11 JST Stu

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     @inthehands that description of QA tester with doors me me laugh out loud. I've been throwing a lot of metaphorical grenades at doors of late.