4 ms·
"the manager", personified. Sheesh. "Code doesn't sell itself" is almost managerial/ceo self-parody -- especially when it's a two-person show (not to mention
by serf 8y ago
"the manager", personified. Sheesh.
"Code doesn't sell itself" is almost managerial/ceo self-parody -- especially when it's a two-person show (not to mention the score of successful open/open-ish projects that totally and utterly lack a marketer/salesman.)
I think he meant "Code doesn't skim its' own profit."
- arcturus17 8y agoThere are plenty of skilled and honest managers in tech, so I fail to see how this is "the manager" personified. The engineer recognizes that with a competent manager things would be in a better place - nowhere does he say that the manager as a figure is redundant, quite the opposite in fact. If anything this is "founder failure" personified, which is why VCs are absolutely obsessed with founder chemistry.
- dzamo_norton 8y agoHe or she is saying that he's a personification of the well-known and sometimes-accurate manager cliché that engineers love to hate. Think pointy-haired boss in Dilbert. It's become an abstraction that people use for conversing, including for laughing, so it doesn't go away when you say "I know many contemporary counterexamples".