Category: Tech
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Work Recognition
To me hockey players are the ultimate love of the game group: “Growing up we always played baseball, football and basketball. The best hockey players play in the IIHF World Championship every year, even during an era when the US Olympic baskball team can’t even attract players who actually are interested in playing.
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The Truly Ecumenical Pope
As usual Orson Scott Card says something better than I could ever hope in his World Watch column Why I Miss Karol Wojtyla: John Paul II, more than any other Pope, united, in feeling if not in fact, Christians who take the divine Redeemer seriously.
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Self critique and the surgeon
Even the most fundamental truths about software development are easy to forget, like that software development is rarely easy, and shouldn’t be. Management uses phrases like “keeping you hand dirty”, but I still think in terms of being a “real software developer” so I can help make better software.
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Robert Martin hits the nail on the head about craftsmanship
Part of it reads: I hope the next big thing is the growth of professionalism and craftsmanship, and the realization that these are the attributes, not documented process or raw manpower, that will make our industry productive, accurate, and respected.