Why Software Engineers Disagree About Everything

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Argues that the surprising problem is not what people argue about but why consensus fails, using epistemology and concrete cases: online poker after 2003 converges on set mining, a ShipMonk micro‑deposit bug lets fraudsters take ~$100,000 before a patch in a ShipMonk micro-deposit example, and fraud rings hide tactics while software projects openly share code. Presents pragmatic remedies like keep your identity small and real exploration versus lip‑service.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:43EPISTEMOLOGY
3. 24:05HIGH SWITCHING COSTS
4. 32:42SOCIAL IDENTITY THEORY
5. 34:39DIFFERENTIAL PSYCHOLOGY
6. 39:08EXPLORE THE TERRAIN

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