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I don't find much constructive value in your comment. To me it seems like a politely worded screed about the incompetence of management and organizations. To d
by sidlls 7y ago
I don't find much constructive value in your comment. To me it seems like a politely worded screed about the incompetence of management and organizations.
To drive the point home I could easily transform "[o]n average, the first priority of managers and execs is maintaining the power structures that make them a big deal" into a derogatory comment about engineers, fad chasing, and resume padding by a simple word substitution. It would be neither accurate nor fair to many (perhaps most) engineers: just as your comment isn't really accurate or fair to managers or organizations.
- wpietri 7y agoI have been both a manager and an executive. As well as a consultant in many companies both small and large. I'm not saying that those people are necessarily incompetent. I'm saying that, per POSIWID, the purpose of most software organizations is not effectiveness in making software (or in serving users via software). That's not constructive in the sense of providing ways to solve the problem. But that wasn't my goal. My goal was to support and confirm the article's thesis. I have also written plenty of constructive things on software development, but I think it's absurd to suggest that every HN comment must contain that kind of constructive feedback. (And if that were a reasonable standard, you aren't living up to it.)