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The quote you provide shows a breakdown in process, not software. Wherever this human being is, they do not have access to the information provided beforehand (
by lighthazard 8y ago
The quote you provide shows a breakdown in process, not software. Wherever this human being is, they do not have access to the information provided beforehand (lack of communication between human software and phone software), did not look/can't find it (lack of training), or they have to go through a checklist of processes regardless of information provided (managers don't trust the phone system to do the job right).
Either way, I do not understand your correlation between that quote and how your lines of code disappear - as with all things, when a company does, sometimes so do the products they offer - there is nothing different here.
- ForHackernews 8y agoThe correlation is if you spend months or years working on something that has no value or that immediately ceases to exist, then your job is BS.
- foobarrio 8y agoDoesn't that mean you were providing a service instead of creating a product?
- carleverett 8y agoSo does that mean the scientists and astronauts that worked on Space Shuttle Challenger had a BS job?
- ForHackernews 8y agoArguably the entire shuttle program was BS. It was a huge white elephant for NASA: prodigiously expensive, saddled with impractical requirements by the Air Force, and producing negligible new scientific results compared to the unmanned probes.
- AstralStorm 8y agoOh really. The whole point is to figure out ways of inhabiting outer space. The " negligible" results gave such silly things like advanced radiation shielding, thermal clothing, advanced air filtering, developments in radioisotope generators and solar panels, material science, even project planning (though saddled with bureaucracy). What it did not improve is the cost of space travel.
- adventured 8y agoI happen to agree with both you and the parent. You both have a valid point. It's not as bad as the parent implied; it's still quite bad. Speaking to the parent's bubble salary point. You've seen the salaries being offered to Magento developers? Perhaps the easiest six figures you can make in tech. In exchange, you have to work with a giant flaming pile of software trash that shouldn't exist in the first place.