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It could be much worse. Simply making random changes and hoping it is an improvement rather than making things worse is not sensible.
by MustardTiger 10y ago
It could be much worse. Simply making random changes and hoping it is an improvement rather than making things worse is not sensible.
- kasey_junk 10y agoThat would be true if we could mention a single factor that we agreed was correlated to successful software projects. Given that is the biggest open question in the industry, who knows? What we do know is that current hiring practices aren't inclusive & they aren't successful. Are those things related? No idea, but I'm more willing to try inclusion than I am riddles for finding my next candidates.
- MustardTiger 10y ago>What we do know is that current hiring practices aren't inclusive & they aren't successful. We don't know either of those things, they are baseless claims. Software gets made, it gets shipped, it kinda works. Given the overwhelmingly horrifying incompetence of the vast majority of programmers, I would suggest we're actually going very well at interviewing and finding the rare competent candidates. >No idea, but I'm more willing to try inclusion than I am riddles for finding my next candidates. And I am more willing to put thought into it rather than do something likely to produce the opposite effect and justify it with a terrible strawman.