I read. A lot. And I share the five best things I read every week. This week’s list consists of a Gerry Weinberg article on requirements, a discussion on technical debt with Ward Cunningham and Capers Jones, charging cell phone batteries, a Foxconn worker and some cool art<\/p>\n
1. Ambiguity in stating requirements<\/a> \n1. Ambiguity in stating requirements<\/a> I read. A lot. And I share the five best things I read every week. This week’s list consists of a Gerry Weinberg article on requirements, a discussion on technical debt with Ward Cunningham and Capers Jones, charging cell phone batteries, a Foxconn worker and some cool art 1. Ambiguity in stating requirements 2. On technical debt 3. Charging cell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2001"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2005,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions\/2005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. On technical debt<\/a>
\n3. Charging cell phones<\/a>
\n4. The poetry of a dead Foxconn worker<\/a>
\n5. Movie title typos turned into art<\/a><\/p>\n
\nMy notes:<\/h3>\n
\nLeave it to Gerry Weinberg to make a deep point in a simple manner. I do not like how much the software industry over-estimates the role of requirements. Good software is rarely made by just translating requirements into code. I feel like this chapter lays out a lot of what is wrong with relying too much on requirements.
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\n2. On technical debt<\/a>
\nWard Cunningham and Capers Jones speak about technical debt. Overall, I was not very comfortable digesting the ideas here. May be I do not comprehend the problem yet. However, one idea stood out for me:
\n>><\/i>“Ward Cunningham: Of course, I think of software development as a learning process. Even with highly skilled developers, if they\u2019re developing new software, there\u2019s an aspect of learning what\u2019s required to, in a sense, satisfy the customer and how to best express that with contemporary technology.”<\/i>
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\n3. Charging cell phones<\/a>
\nReddit ELI5 gives an answer to whether it is bad to keep your battery fully charged. Only the top 2-3 parent comments are worth reading. I found the topic interesting because I remember having similar discussions with friends when laptops were a new thing.
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\n4. The poetry of a dead Foxconn worker<\/a>
\nYet another Foxconn worker commits suicide. This time though, looks like the press is engaging in some propaganda against Foxconn. I love the fact that they are using poetry from the dead worker. I hope conditions improve for the Foxconn workers.
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\n5. Movie title typos turned into art<\/a>
\nIf movie titles had typos, what would their poster art look like? Someone has gone and hand drawn about 25 of them. Enjoy!<\/p>\n
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