Beck
Beck
Beck Hansen, known by stage name Beck, is an American singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He is mostly known for his musical composition, as well as a palette of sonic genres...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth8 July 1970
CountryUnited States of America
memories caring tangible
If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.
mean programming quaint
I mean, source code in files; how quaint, how seventies!
succeed failing trouble
If you're having trouble succeeding, fail.
thinking community
The community isn't nearly as afraid as it thinks it is.
design research lag
Learning research tells us that the time lag from experiment to feedback is critical ...
design listening different
Listening, Testing, Coding, Designing. That's all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.
mature problem sometimes
Sometimes the problem has to mature before the solution can mature.
optimism hazards computer
Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.
honesty responsibility practice
Responsible Development shares many practices with XP but the roots are different. Responsible Development's values are honesty, transparency, accountability and responsibility. These lead me to pairing, test-first, incremental design, continuous integration and so on because they support the values.
responsibility programming slacker
Testing is not the point. The point is about responsibility.
stories metaphor managers
The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works.
quality cost development
Of the four project development variables - scope, cost, time and quality - quality isn't really a free variable. The only possible values are "excellent" and "insanely excellent", depending on whether lives are at stake.
tests cost testing
If testing costs more than not testing, then don't test.
giving-up simple ideas
Code wants to be simple... I had to give up the idea that I had the perfect vision of the system to which the system had to conform. Instead, I had to accept that I was only the vehicle for the system expressing its own desire for simplicity. My vision could shape initial direction, and my attention to the desires of the code could affect how quickly and how well the system found its desired shape, but the system is riding me much more than I am riding the system.