jeffreygoesto
Joined 10 years ago
Joined 10 years ago
His seminal paper "The problem with threads" [0] and others inspired [1] a lot.
Boy would I love to see what would have happened if he and Joe Armstrong would have collaborated...
[0] https://ptolemy.berkeley.edu/publications/papers/06/problemw...
Can't help but think "Doesn't matter if a machine or a human with (even slightly) different background wrote it", maximizing information flow is maximizing common assumptions and "culture" to only have to communicate a small set of current information for the task at hand. Being a team means having built a joint context so to say. This has always been the purpose of design documents and they always were too big or too small. Because you did not write them, but the others. If you only produce code you think they are the past and useless. If you iterate and your team grows, you start seeing the value in always current docs that are containing just what is not in your everyday culture.
All the best for you and your growing family. I had a similar experience recalibrating my values...