It is actually a common practice, if you want to terminate the lease, to stop paying and get evicted. However, they may still be liable to pay for the three or four months they used.
It is great you had a mentor. I met few people I could learn from and books (including Bob’s) were very helpful. He promoted TDD, good names, short functions etc Is he too dogmatic? Are his function too short? Probably yes.
I never treat his proposals as a silver bullet, but a great source of inspiraton. I wish there were more people teaching those things.
I think the answer to software apocalipse is both:
- get better tools
- get better programmers
And in fact we have been doing it - the tools are so much better than they used to be and with tdd, refactoring, patternals and clean code we have been building increasingly complex software with less bugs.
I generally agree with the article, however it reminds me of what my algorithmic competition mentor once said:
“So you know who java developer is? Someone who doesn’t know Java”.
While the emphasis was not on Java, but knowing a single language.
“If he could learn Java well he could very much learn C++”.
Again emphasise is not on C++ specifically, but any other language really.
Technology landscape changes, stack get more complex.
While we should not expect everyone to know everything all the time, we should expect most developers strive for fullstackness. A ideal perhaps never to be achieved .
The only reason why I didn’t delete facebook is messenger, where I chat with old folks.