Asshole Driven Development

http://scottberkun.com/2007/asshole-driven-development/

by sidcool • 14 years ago

102 21 14 years ago

staticfish• 14 years ago

There seems to have been an influx of these sort of posts on HN recently.

To be honest, engineers are just people. A wide sample of folks from different backgrounds, cultures, ethnicities, educational-backgrounds, etc etc.

This wildcard lumping of people into various categories has got to stop. It's ridiculous to say the least, and really does the profession harm when you separate the engineer from the individual in question.

People are different.

001sky2• 14 years ago

Posted on June 19th, <2007> in Management, Software/Web development

-- Whats was old, is now again New

marblar• 14 years ago

That's probably worth emphasizing more: this post is pretty old.

xd• 14 years ago

I find it interesting that; "He worked at Microsoft from 1994 to 2003, mostly on Internet Explorer 1.0 to 5.0 (not 6)" ...

rachelbythebay• 14 years ago

That sure makes it sound like IE6 was a pariah project. It's the sort of thing that makes people go out of their way to say "I had no part in the making of that monster".

Hmm. More Bozo Loop material.

realrocker• 14 years ago

Where is Know-it-All Driven Development? Oh wait.

wglb• 14 years ago

The article missed CADT: http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

bitdiddle• 14 years ago

never time to do it right, always time to do it over.

greenyoda• 14 years ago

That's a great article, thanks!

"...and the new maintainer can't be bothered to check whether his new version has actually solved any of the known problems that existed in the previous version"

It's even worse than that:

- The new version might have new bugs that the old version didn't have.

- The new version might not have all the features you've come to depend on in the old version.

- The new version might have APIs or syntax that are not compatible with the old version.

JoeAltmaier• 14 years ago

I like to say "Rewrote it? So now its bigger, slower and more expensive!"

sidcool• 14 years ago

Great read!

001sky2• 14 years ago

"It hardly seems worth even having a bug system if the frequency of from-scratch rewrites always outstrips the pace of bug fixing."

sciurus• 14 years ago

An argument for how GNOME developers can avoid this problem was recently made at http://jeff.ecchi.ca/blog/2012/10/08/reducing-our-core-apps-...

FuzzyDunlop• 14 years ago

There should be a name for these types of articles: Pigeonhole Driven Discussion.

Shenglong• 14 years ago

CYAE has been a dominant force in government for years now.

level09• 14 years ago

We implement ADD, CDD, CYAE extensively in our company ..

alexwolfe• 14 years ago

You just need to find another job. Those don't sound like forms of development, just unprofessional people making bad decisions. Good luck.

Asshole Driven Development

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