Re: Peer review

From: Vy-Shane Sin Fat <shane_at_node.mu>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 09:42:58 +0800

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 6:34 AM, S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com> wrote:

> Hi Nirvan,
> At 12:06 27-04-2015, Tejas Pagooah (Nirvan) wrote:
>
>> · If the graduates have the required competency or just being
>> paper-based people – people who just know things in theory
>> Academic intuitions tend to be more theory in teaching other
>> than to be more practical, which the markets is actually expecting from us.
>>
>
> I had an interesting conversation with a person at the conference about
> peer review. Peer review is a process where people verify each other's
> work. It is common outside Mauritius to see criticism about works of
> science or the arts. For example, you might read about what an informed
> person has to say about a movie before deciding whether to watch it or
> not. I'll provide another example; let's say that you tell me that the
> application works correctly with Microsoft Internet Explorer. I would ask
> other people to test the application to ensure that it works correctly.
> Paper-based people would not be able to review the application and provide
> criticism which may be useful to you.
>

I wouldn't really consider testing in IE a proper peer review. A review of
the application code however, would be a better example. It's (a somewhat)
common practice in our industry to enforce code reviews on pull requests. A
healthy project will review all code before it's merged in.

Cheers,
Shane
Received on Wed Apr 29 2015 - 01:43:33 PST