On the 8 Spot

Lakers Spurs Live!

http://www.tnt.tv/sports/nba/playoffs08_live/

from Robin Hanson Of Overcoming Bias blog:

I have learned most of the list from other places but I learned the following from the article.

5. Innovation in large systems comes mostly from part innovation, so system innovation is steadier than part innovation, and the largest systems grow steadiest.

6. System structures vary in how well they encourage and test innovations locally and then distribute the best ones widely. Better structures for this are meta-innovations.

• Good modularity reduces the need to match innovations in differing parts.
• Good abstraction puts similar innovation problems within the same part.

I’ve been feeling the pain of other developers right now. Maintaining and actually changing other people’s code.

I have a couple of thorns in my side.

1. I’ve been using C# for almost two months now. Although I can already say that I a already have above average skill in C# I’ve had difficulty with mainly lack of familiarity of a lot of shorcuts and the best ways of doing things.

2. I am maintaining and at the same time creating a lot of the code. I feel like I am piling mistake upon mistake. I don’t blame the previous programmer, I must confess that I am slowly rewriting a lot of the code, not for dogmatic reasons, purely to make the code cleaner.

3. How Do You Do Unit Test with C#. This is my primary fear right now, If I cant design proper test units, I don’t know how I’ll survive testing this!

I’ll add more as I encounter more difficulty!