Endlessly Curious » Video http://www.endlesslycurious.com Programming, Productivity & Software Development. Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:00:50 +0000 en hourly 1 Dealing with Poisonous People http://www.endlesslycurious.com/2010/04/28/dealing-with-poisonous-people/ http://www.endlesslycurious.com/2010/04/28/dealing-with-poisonous-people/#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:00:24 +0000 Daniel http://www.endlesslycurious.com/?p=1415 Another video by the same guys that presented ‘The myth of the genius programmer’, this time from Google I/O 2008: talking about how to protect your open source project from poisonous or negative people. I think their advice is equally applicable to non-open source projects as it is to open source projects.

Hat tip to Cliff for pointing this video out to me.

]]> http://www.endlesslycurious.com/2010/04/28/dealing-with-poisonous-people/feed/ 0 Myth of the Genius Programmer http://www.endlesslycurious.com/2009/12/10/myth-of-the-genius-programmer/ http://www.endlesslycurious.com/2009/12/10/myth-of-the-genius-programmer/#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:00:09 +0000 Daniel http://www.endlesslycurious.com/?p=1373 From the Google I/O 2009 conference:
“A pervasive elitism hovers in the background of collaborative software development: everyone secretly wants to be seen as a genius. In this talk, we discuss how to avoid this trap and gracefully exchange personal ego for personal growth and super-charged collaboration. We’ll also examine how software tools affect social behaviors, and how to successfully manage the growth of new ideas.”

Despite being almost an hour long this is a very insightful video that I’d recommend any Software Engineer watches. I find it fascinating that so many programmers want to erase their perceived (or actual) mistakes in source control systems. I guess everyone secretly wants to be the perfect super programmer. However I typically learn more from my failures than my successes: perhaps it is natural to be more introspective about failure than success?

If you find the title or video too pretentious then the question and answers session (around 42:40) is still quite interesting as the presenters get grilled by the audience.

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