On: Why bad scientific code beats code following “best practices” (2014)

[pjmlp]

In the commercial world, specially at enterprise level, coders are only allowed to follow beautiful designs of UML layers created by business analysts, solution architects that haven't written a single line of code in the last 15 years.

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Do places like that actually still exist?

[quantumhobbit → quotemstr]

Yes, but now the business analysts and architects call themselves scrum masters and product owners.

[pjmlp → quotemstr]

Yes, lots of them specially at DAX level in projects with offshoring components.