Alex Martelli

Our culture's default assumption is that everybody should always be striving for perfection -- settling for anything less is seen as a regrettable compromise. This is wrong in most software development situations: focus instead on keeping the software simple, just "good enough", launch it early, and iteratively improve, enhance, and re-factor it. This is how software success is achieved!

[EuroPython 2012 ] Alex Martelli - 2 JULY 2012 in "Track Spaghetti"

Grace Murray Hopper's famous motto, "It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission", has many useful applications -- in Python, in concurrency, in networking, as well of course as in real life. However, it's not universally valid. This talk explores both useful and damaging applications of this principle.

[EuroPython 2011] Alex Martelli - 20 June 2011 in "Track Spaghetti"

[EuroPython 2011] Alex Martelli - 20 June 2011 in "Track Spaghetti"

[EuroPython 2011] Alex Martelli - 24 June 2011 in "Track Spaghetti"