What if there are
claims we
cannot evaluate nowadays because there is
no way to prove if they are correct or not?
What if is hard to distinguish between mainstream
ideas that everyone like from what really
work in practice?
What if orthodoxy is used as a weapon to oppose
disagreement and dissent in support of someone
authoritativeness?
What if for some problems we have to be
highly intelligent and
well informed just to be
undecided about them?
What if
we recognize and accept what we really known about professional software production and what we do not?
See also:
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Computer Science Is Not a Science, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 56 No. 1, Pages 8-9
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Two Solitudes Illustrated, about IT industry and academia
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Why you should not be an Agilist
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Many ways of looking at Software development, from software cults to software fashion
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When diversity, dissent and responsibility lack