One of the big concerns of companies that employ software engineers has been how to measure the productivity of these people. From a business standpoint, the idea is that one should find ways to maximize the work done by their employees. However, it is difficult to evaluate how this maximization process would happen if no…
Software entrepreneurs constantly make the mistake to equate number of features in software with a better chance of dominance in the market. And, if one look at how the market works, there is some justification for this thinking: if a software has a large number of features, then it can attract a larger user base….
Lest night, I was reading an interview by Ken Thompson, the inventor of UNIX, on the book “Coders at Work“. At one point of the interview, he mentions that he considered himself a better programmer before he was 35. The main reason according to him is that he knew every line of code that he…