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Skjeggtroll

@Skjeggtroll@bookrastinating.com

Wild, Norwegian bearded troll. Was a voracious reader, lately scaled back to racious or therabouts, but hoping to redisover my vo. Diet mostly consists of fantasy and science fiction, with a sprinkling of non-fiction history books and the occasional work-related book on IT.

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"This is another variation of the High-Tech Illusion: the belief that software developers do easily automated work. Their principal work is human communication to organize the user's expressions of needs into formal procedure. That work will be necessary no matter how we change the life cycle."

— Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister, Dorset House: https://bookrastinating.com/book/35067, p. 34

This quote from a 37-year old book seemed a useful and apropos reminder in the current , hype-cycle.

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