#Muses

I’ve been searching for a measure of technical debt (or its inverse, design quality)

And:

As Martin Fowler said in 2001, “I have an increasing sense that pig-headed determination to remove all repetition can lead you a long way toward a good design.” And then there’s Carter’s Compass, coined by John Carter: “I know I’m on the right track when by deleting code I’m adding functionality.”

James Shore

“Bill doesn’t really want to review your spec,” a colleague told me. “He just wants to make sure you’ve got it under control. His standard MO is to ask harder and harder questions until you admit that you don’t know, and then he can yell at you for being unprepared. Nobody was really sure what happens if you answer the hardest question he can come up with, because it’s never happened before. [Read More]

Shoddy lasts forever.

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