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The whole quote makes your clip sound different: Some of the most advanced programming, as Clive Thompson notes in his 2019 book Coders, was pushed forward by long-haired weirdos who hung around university labs after hours, hackers who considered themselves as much artisans as logicians.

And it was not said in relation to agile.



What does Clive Thompson have to do with software engineering excellence? Could you send me his github.

Judging people by their appearance is extremely superficial and guaranteed to bring you tons of problems in any more complex context.


> Could you send me his github.

Oh is this is the new measure of success? I better get one then.

Used to be we just pointed to the successful products and companies we created, but I guess we are measuring folks now on mostly pointless pet projects that no one is using?


Did you actually read the article? What was the judgement in the quote?




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