Why Developers Never Use State Machines
Why developers rarely use state machines, seeing them as overkill until it's too late to switch, and what the state_machine gem did for CrowdHired.
Alan Skorkin on building software, and the teams that build it, as AI changes both.
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Why developers rarely use state machines, seeing them as overkill until it's too late to switch, and what the state_machine gem did for CrowdHired.
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Why the claim that 99 in 100 programmers can't program says more about a company's job ads and interviews than about programmers.
How a computer scientist, a programmer and a developer differ in skills, focus and priorities, even though the terms are often used interchangeably.