David Reis on Software
David ReisOccasional and random thoughts about Software Engineering and Leadership
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Legacy Shmegacy
Legacy is an overused toxic word in Software Engineering. In this essay I argue the problem is not software, it’s people, as usual. What is legacy is not the code, but the way we look at it, and that breeds helplessness and costly rewrites....
What the Japanese Toilet Taught Me About Human Nature
I used to work at Google, and from time to time I visited the Googleplex, the company headquarters in Mountain View California. It’s famous around the world for its quirkiness and how it spoils Googlers. I could talk about the lap pool, the...
Good Comment, Bad Comment
In my job as hiring manager for my startup Vom, I have graded countless take-home assignments from early in career Software Engineers. Though they varied greatly in most dimensions, they were similar in one regard. Despite being thousands o...
The Case for Nitpicking
It somehow has become common wisdom that you should never comment on style on code reviews. It is supposedly toxic, as everyone has their own taste, and no style is better than any other. My purpose with this essay is to destroy that notion...
The Ladder of Prestige
Why do people take an online course from MIT and then add it to their LinkedIn, subtly implying but not (falsely) stating they are an MIT grad? It’s because MIT is prestigious, and people want to rub some of that sweet gooey prestige onto t...
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I'm the founder of Vom (http://vomdecision.com). Before that I was CTO of Hubla, and Sr Staff Engineer at Google Search.
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