People
- Ken Arnold
- Scott Klemmer
- David De Roure
- Jill Cao
- Elizabeth Churchill
- Hsiang Chang
- Matthew Webber
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"I love that book, but I've never found any of those dimensions useful."
Gulf of Execution / Gulf of Evaluation illuminates a discussion
purpose of a framework: design? evaluation? does it tell you the context of the problem?
- sometimes people struggle to shoehorn their work into a framework
what are the attributes of a system that matter?
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role of failure ("screw-ups")
- debugging practices
- what things can be excised and replaced
- who can remove, fix, replace, etc. roles of people in this.
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flexibility in the process (anecdote from Japanese process -- it's the
relationship between the customer and the organization, losing face)
Community: knowledge / resources:
- others (community) - "The Angels in the Cloud" (let's write it)
- known and unknown
- dependencies (the converse) - what will break you?
- extensibility: can other people build on it? can they build on each other?
Distinguishes:
* code in cloud or locally
* building on others' code?
role of interactivity
- time to evaluate a change (constant compilation / constant testing)
- how much are you thinking "with" the system
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Visual Studio / Flex - flip rapidly between code and layout view -
multiple representations - either view can be an evaluation of the
other one
role of time?
- how systems change over time
Primarily from scratch, or modding other programs
- crowdsourcing / group building (how "Web 2.0")
- free updating of dependents / how "living" is your code
- code and changs saved in the cloud or local?
user roles: distinction between end user programmers and end user users
"What did you do?" "Why did you do it?"
ghost actors
kinds of guarantees
- keywords and natural language: imprecise, but failure-tolerant, humans in loop
- traditional programming: stronger guarantees.
reliance on symbolic knowledge
role of expertise
what kinds of exploration are built-in?
- ability to construct multiple variations
- "ask me when you get here" / conversationality
ambiguity: embraced or squashed out
