Re:Cognitive Biases in Software Development
by lioeters on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @08:46AM
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Nice quote from Friedrich Schiller. When I searched it from curiosity, I found another statement by him that seemed appropriate for the topic at hand:
"He who considers too much will perform little."
Re:Cognitive Biases in Software Development
by throwaway_pdp09 on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @09:09AM
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> "He who considers too much will perform little."
The perfectionist's curse? I have to say there's a core of truth to that! Analysis paralysis IOW.
Re:Cognitive Biases in Software Development
by abiogenesis on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @10:04PM
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This is why procrastination is more widespread in high IQ individuals.
And I mean anywhere: "If the language I'm working in supported FP, then my world would be much better" :) I've seen the fuckups that are possible in FP, and indeed worked with a guy who used it to make things as complex as possible. You can really produce nasty code because of it's much-touted compositionality in the hands of a dickhead can generate horrors. Map within a map composed with a reduce composed with... in one statement.
Add in statelessness, which can complicate things in some cases, if said prat pushes statelessness due to the latest blog article he read, it can get worse.
From memory: "against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain".