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Re:Ask HN: What does mastery look like in software engineering? by robertlagrant on Thursday January 07, 2021 @06:36AM (#25669887)
If you have a load of smart engineers, sometimes it can be a more successful strategy to just build something than to pay EY £250k to do market analysis, get a load of execs bought in who then will "make it work" even if it shouldn't, or kill it off even if they shouldn't, and then finally get a committee-written spec handed over to be built in a rush.
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Re:Ask HN: What does mastery look like in software engineering? by disgruntledphd2 on Thursday January 07, 2021 @09:55AM (#25671732)
Sure, there are pathologies at both ends of the spectrum. I do think it's worthwhile (particularly here), that software engineers/technical people are subject to their own set of development pathologies.
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Re:Ask HN: What does mastery look like in software engineering? by robertlagrant on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:24AM (#25684444)
That's fair, yes.
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Re:Ask HN: What does mastery look like in software engineering? by PaulHoule on Thursday January 07, 2021 @09:25AM (#25671339)
The FANG method of software dev is extraordinarily expensive, particularly at the G.
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