The Atlantic recently published a story about how the software industry has continued to produce unreliable code. Something in particular that stuck with me was this assumption that hardware is easier to thoroughly test.
One of the themes I want to convey in this publication is how diversity can improve our work. There are life lessons here beyond programming, but I’ll try to stick to the subject at hand for now.
In keeping to my theme of going against the grain, I’d like to propose that you may be rewarding behavior you should be suppressing and that your team is suffering for it.
I created Misfit Coders as a place for my coding-related stories. It’s plural because I may be open to having like-minded people publish in the future. For being a group that’s supposed to be forward-thinking and cutting edge, we do a great deal on a whim, without question, and we follow fads…