This blog post covers: the practical definition of what heuristic is, example of how imperfect heuristic may solve a problem we're not sure exists, what does it mean "everyday heuristic" (that is not really ad-hoc) and whether it's fair to call heuristic a "short-cut".It's not (& it never was) a surprise that software engineers are much better with terms, concepts & abstractions present directly in the code. I've seen several tech people kinda confused when discussion skewed towards more general problem-solving space - they didn't seem to have a good grasp on some basic terms & one of these…
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Last few weeks have been quite busy for me and my gang of Merry Men. We're doing a lean project of development architecture refreshment for a large enterprise and we're not wasting time - we aim to deliver the changes as quickly & frequently as possible (even if it means smaller 'chunks'). Our hurricane went through source control, work-stream organization, package management, SIR tracking, task management, peer reviews and now it's heading towards configuration management - guys have a done a lot of awesome work, but it's still a long and dangerous path ahead. Pain in the @ss But of…