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It's not sustainable. But since software developers have been dealt a good hand (demand-wise) in these decades, we get away with it. And call it "hacker cultur
by paulojreis 11y ago
It's not sustainable.
But since software developers have been dealt a good hand (demand-wise) in these decades, we get away with it. And call it "hacker culture", so it sounds hip and even correct.
- kevinchen 11y agoActually, I'd counter that it is sustainable -- for Facebook. They have so much user data and so much ad revenue that they can afford to throw engineers and money at the problem. Big companies can work hard and make things work, smaller shops have to work efficiently out of necessity.
- davnicwil 11y agoYes indeed. From a slightly different perspective, assuming every good dev tries to be as efficient as they can be, even assuming they are, but with varying degrees of success due to various factors, a big company can hire lots of good people and only needs to get lucky and hit the mark occasionally. A small company on the other hand has to get lucky pretty much every single time.