A Person, Artist, Software Engineer, Geologist.

There are so many catch phrases used in our (every) profession that are accepted as truth, that I would explore a couple of them. They are: - Re-writes never work. - Fast, Easy, Quick.  Pick 2. These phrases are used more to support a preexisting position of the programming staff than reflecting any real truth.  They are tools of propaganda and mis-information that are pulled out once in a while to guide decisions to a pre-determined goal. While experience may have proved these statements to be to true, they must be looked at in context and the amount to sampling to achieve these so called truths. For those only having 5-10 years of programming experience behind them, the occurrences of major re-writes and FEQ (Fast, Easy, Quick) decisions may be limited.   Re-writes of a major product are not that frequent or a product would never get released and provide the business with time to recoup it's investment.  Likewise with the repercussions of FEQ decisio...

In software development, we struggle with our own thoughts for the directions we take.  Strive for the shiny new object to develop with?  Use our current tools or take a risk on a newly released tools for new project?  What is real and what is driven by our desires and personal wants. We like to think that we make rational decisions but we don't.  We fool ourselves by pretending contraary evidence does not exist or apply for the decisions we make. This can get us in to big trouble. This is not limited to indivuals but to companies as well.   Google has been denying that fragmentation is a problem with the Android ecosystem.  That what worked for the phones would work for tablets (it doesn't).  Adding fragments that require even more resources, id, files and references should work fine for larger screen sizes (it doesn't).  Tablets are just like phones except we can just place more of the same existing views on the screen at the same time, it...