Software Design: Tidy First?

TT Chapter: Fat-Tailed Distributions

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Kent Beck
Nov 04, 2024
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So, so much more to say about this. I’m so happy to be explaining stuff I sweated to get, stuff that completely rewired my brain as a designer. Highest order bit of feedback—does this approach (writing simple models) help you understand?

I’ll write the rest of it later.

You’re an empirical software designer. You see a really long function. What’s your rea…

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