Software design is an exercise in human relationships. So are all the other techniques we use to develop software. How can we geeks get better at technique as one way of getting better at relationships?
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Decompose Run-On Tests
Run-On Tests
Originally posted March 2013
A RUN-ON SENTENCE has at least two parts, either one of which can stand by itself.
— Guide to Grammar and Writing
Yesterday, a student brought me a test that looked like this:...
Tools Aren’t Here to Make Us Feel Good
But feeling bad is a sign something is wrong
I just gave the first two versions of a talk about how our augmented coding tools are making us feel bad & how they should be reoriented around human needs instead of technical capabilities. Thi...
Mathematicians, Here’s a Way To Think About Your Existential Crisis
Two years ago programmers were all like, “What I do is code. Who I am is a coder. The genie codes. Now who am I?” Now mathematicians are all like, “What I do is prove theorems. Who I am is a theorem prover. The genie codes. Now who am I?” H...
Formal Methods Pay Off
Finally!
Back in graduate school I spent two quarters TAing for the undergraduate formal methods course. While I have rarely pulled out full-blown formal methods in my career, I find that I use them informally all the time.
Reject Change, Sometimes
An ancient exchange gave each trader sitting at their oak desks two options for investment:
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A strongbox for holding coins.
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A coin flipper that, given some number of coins, would either return twice that many coins or half.
Eac...
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