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December 06 2010
The process of writing a technical specification - Stack Overflow
* You create a list of requirements or a functional specification* You look at all possible ways to solve the problem
* You decide which ways fits best or leads to the best result
What you describe shows that they didn't make a good (if any) analysis of the pro's and con's. In the end it comes down to how well the Junior's themselves are able to gather the right information and then make the correct decision. This might involve asking more senior programmers ;-)
Some examples of design methods to decide what the best possible options are:
* http://www.wikid.eu/index.php/Itemised_response
* http://www.wikid.eu/index.php/Weighted_objectives_method
* http://www.wikid.eu/index.php/Harris_profile
* http://www.mycoted.com/Brainwriting
* http://www.qicbok.com/tools/creativitytools_brainwriting635.cfm
February 23 2010
Less Wrong: Ends Don't Justify Means (Among Humans)
interesting topic to explore: the ethics of "running on corrupted hardware"Doing It Anyway (dirtSimple.org)
I like the bit about axioms. It explains why so many people have found it useful over the years to come to me for advice; I do that Yoda thing where I tell you how it is -- in the form of some absolute (although metaphorical, still absolute in format) axiom(s).February 13 2009
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