Tao of Programming: Authorized Edition

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  dale.underwood

  03/28/09 | Report as spam

  RE: Tao of Programming: Authorized Edition

  Great post Geoffrey despite being a bit off topic.
  
  RE: Section 3.4 "How long will it take...."
  
  I've found 3 to be a very practical number of programmers. It's large enough for a third opinion yet small enough for conclusive action.
  
  

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  david_csa

  03/28/09 | Report as spam

  RE: Tao of Programming: Authorized Edition

  Thus spake the Ronin: I once believed in the Tao of programming, and I perceived the immense structure that had no rational purpose. While I took amusement from its endless gyrations, I found I could not enjoy the untroubled ease of programming beneath its sheltering branches because it consumed my profit sharing margins. It also craved optimization because it was inefficient, unlike my software.
  
  Their meetings had open doors. When told we would double sales, I asked about the opportunities in the pipeline, and the supposed source of the increase.
  
  They said I had not the Tao of sales, and if I built it, they would come.
  
  I was laid off in the first round.
  
  The inefficient overhead structure was decimated in the third round.
  
  The technology of the gutted company was sold off after the fifth round.
  
  Then I perceived that software and sales were ying and yang only to be embraced within myself.
  So I filed my LLC.
  

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  Geoffrey James, Sales Machine

  03/29/09 | Report as spam

  RE: Tao of Programming: Authorized Edition

  To david_csa: Yeah, I went over to the dark side of the force, too.