This is an excerpt from a private chat with someone about code and I think it expresses something universal about programming, mathematics and engineering or any discipline where iterative development is necessary to manage complexity and discover simplicity. …about a bit of code where I haven’t quite grasped what needs to happen, or the core […]
Tag: design
Keyboards, Machine Guns, and Other Daily Tools
I’ve got an annoying issue on my mind: keyboard layouts. This is brought on by the recurring need for me to travel to places where two different keyboard layouts are common and other programmers look at you funny if you have to glance down to make sure whether you’re hitting ‘@’ or ‘`’ or ‘”‘ […]
Fred Brooks: Design Requirements
This overlooked resource is a talk that Fred Brooks gave to a very small audience June 4, 2007 — the first day of the WSOM Design Requirements Workshop. He does not discuss requirements or elicitation of requirements (which is what everybody else talked about) but rather discusses design as a process and how that is […]