It makes me really sad that for a lot of people John Locke == some dude from some shitty show.

I was hoping for it.

I was expecting the philosopher, but was pleasantly surprised when it was the Lost character.

That being said, this article is more of a funny article about Lost targeted at programmers than it is an article about important software development practices inspired by Lost.

Yep. Now "Calvin and Hobbes", that would be another story.

haha i think you missing the point. It's good software development practices. Not who I can extract an allegory from.

Somehow I think a case could be made that radical empiricism is a useful model for software development...i.e. one's a priori ideas about customers, markets, and the utility of software are not as useful as customer feedback:

And if our dreamer pleases to try whether the glowing heat of a glass furnace be barely a wandering imagination in a drowsy man's fancy, by putting his hand into it, he may perhaps be wakened into a certainty greater than he could wish

http://enlightenment.supersaturated.com/johnlocke/BOOKIVChap...