> Have you ever inspected the work of a tract house builder? It’s awful and usually plays fast and loose with building codes. This is a great metaphor. I work

> Have you ever inspected the work of a tract house builder? It’s awful and usually plays fast and loose with building codes. This is a great metaphor. I work in construction management, and the quality difference between non-union commercial and union commercial firms (let alone a non-union resi contractor) is large enough that a lot of large commercial buildings have union contractor only exclusions (which is good for me, and better for the union tradespeople that perform the work) Programming is far more trade-like than most programmers would like to admit..