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Talking to lots of developers at GUADEC about their designs, I’m reminded of the hardest thing to get right in software engineering: when are you doing too much of it? The “agile development” model is to always do as little as possible, adding code and design complexity only as needed. I’m a big fan of […]

Keynote Reactions

Lost my voice last night talking to people about our GNOME Online Desktop keynote. I’ll try to remember some interesting things people brought up. Some commenters thought the talk wasn’t alarmist enough and should have more strongly stressed the urgency of the situation. I don’t think we need to panic but I do think a […]