Seth Juarez quipped in an interview that when people say they’ve got something “down to a science,” they probably don’t mean what they’re saying. Science is about making guesses and testing to see whether they’re right.
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Next time when I do trial and error coding, I can tell everyone I am doing Science!
Joel Spolsky said something once about how software development has become very scientific: you have to run experiments to find out what code does.
I’m pretty sure when I say that I mean: “I predicted something would happen and it did.” Making guesses and testing is only half the story.
When I use that phrase it means I have a process that I can run with an expected result. So it is more of an experimental setup that just re-validates my previous findings.