Comment by ankhmoop

17 years ago

It's fairly easy to degenerate "enterprise developers" when you're defining what "enterprise" means.

My definition of "enterprise developer" comes directly from working in a gigantic financial company as well as an even more gigantic government defense contractor. Would you like some more anecdotes?

  • No, because an "anecdote", by definition, is not statistically relevant.

    "Enterprise teams" are not, inherently, profoundly stupid in their practice of software engineering, and not all "hackers" inherently produce worthwhile, quality code.

    This completely fabricated fable of software engineering is a simple straw man argument, and I've flagged it accordingly.

    • Every life lesson that you learn from experience is just a statistically irrelevant anecdote and results in the refinement of a crude heuristic or generalization mechanism for your limited human brain. Never did this fabricated fable state or even hint that this was the way all enterprise teams and all hackers are like. That, my friend, is the straw man argument coming from you.

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