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Efficient vs. effective
09/22/05
Efficient vs. effective
Guy 1: I am so efficient I can fold 100 parachutes in a hour.
Guy 2: I am so effective I can fold 100 parachutes and every single one of them will open right.
Would you rather give your parachutes to the efficient or to the effective guy?
Now what I'd like to know is why all these programmers we interview pride themselves on being efficient?
I'm so sick of their industrial strength bug generating skills... >:-[
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Comment from: Thierry [Visitor] · http://www.wouarf.com/blogtk
The guy who accepts to jump in the parachute he has just folded is the effective guy.
09/24/05 @ 17:26
Well, trust me, too many guys think they've done it right as long as it doesn't fail... they may only realize after 50 jumps they have been doing it wrong all along.
Sadly enough, when it comes to programming, the cost of failure doesn't impact as much on the indivual as it does in skydiving... Yeah yeah okay I am JUST KIDDING! :)
Sadly enough, when it comes to programming, the cost of failure doesn't impact as much on the indivual as it does in skydiving... Yeah yeah okay I am JUST KIDDING! :)
09/27/05 @ 14:47
Comment from: Kochise [Visitor]
Hmmm, if a skydiver crash, it costs, say, 1.000.000 euros to the insurance.
I used to work for the automotive industry. If a coder made a mistake, say, in the dashboard which control the speed regulation, that leads to a crash, 2 died consumers, several injuried people, many broken cars, and all cars from the same brand have to return back to the manufacturer for fix. Do you think it cost less than a lone lazy folder skydiver ?
Better be careful when you code in some places. Really...
Kochise
I used to work for the automotive industry. If a coder made a mistake, say, in the dashboard which control the speed regulation, that leads to a crash, 2 died consumers, several injuried people, many broken cars, and all cars from the same brand have to return back to the manufacturer for fix. Do you think it cost less than a lone lazy folder skydiver ?
Better be careful when you code in some places. Really...
Kochise
09/28/05 @ 09:26
Still... the guys who made the mistake doesn't die himself... at most, he might get a blame along with the other guys in QA...
09/28/05 @ 13:00
Comment from: Kochise [Visitor]
Still, from your own example, you compare skydivers with coders' "industrial strength bug generating skills". So in general the coder cannot die from his own code, only generate accidents... The skydiver could fold somebody else's parachute as well...
But if he is the driver of the car or one of the astronaut of Challenger ?
Kochise
But if he is the driver of the car or one of the astronaut of Challenger ?
Kochise
09/30/05 @ 11:15
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