I noticed this post on Guy Kawasaki's blog titled top 10 lies of engineers. Coming from development background I can recall most of those comments I made. Well, there was one more that was favorite with some others I encountered -
- "It really worked yesterday, I don't know if somebody changed any environmental settings since then"
- "it is better not to recompile this program – not sure if something breaks on a new re-compiled components"
- "I followed the exact same code sample and didn't work – it seems to be working now"
My favorite one from the original post is “I'll comment the code, so that the next person can understand what I did.” but then it always takes few days to read his own code to understand and make any changes later on.
Well, I disagree for word "lie" in original post, though. They are not really lies per se, I think they are sort of cover / shield for the situations.
just a thought…
