On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Marcus G. Daniels <[email protected]> wrote:
> Then there's the more direct meaning of literacy, which is whether one > can rationalize large and complex projects written by other individuals > or teams. This is taught poorly, if at all. Lots of emphasis on how > to build systems, but less on modeling and deconstruction and > rebuilding. > To pull from another discussion, this happens for the same reason that positive results in scientific research is (unintentionally, perhaps) favoured over unbiased results: individual success and competition between individuals is, despite claims to the contrary, valued higher than group collaboration. -Arlo James Barnes
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