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> This article is very much at odds with my 15-year (1988-2000, 2001-2004) experience writing software at NASA (albeit at JPL, which is to say the unmanned spac
by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
> This article is very much at odds with my 15-year (1988-2000, 2001-2004) experience writing software at NASA (albeit at JPL, which is to say the unmanned space program, but still NASA). In my experience there was just as much politics, marketing hype, and general bullshit as I've seen in the commercial world.
An institution's philosophy is almost always bullshit. Whether it is Google's "Don't be evil" or north korea's "worker's paradise" or our own "capitalist democratic paradise".
The media isn't a fount of journalist integrity. The government isn't a found of "goodwill towards its citizens". The military isn't "defending the peace".
It's sad but the more you work and the older you get, the more the facade crumbles. At the end of the day, it's just fallible humans trying their best to get by.