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Unfortunately, you are probably right. But if we want software to stop being in various states of "broken" forever, we will need professionals not scared of lo

Unfortunately, you are probably right. But if we want software to stop being in various states of "broken" forever, we will need professionals not scared of losing their jobs for doing the right thing. This sounds like syndicalism, and I think it's another great route to improving worker freedoms. I wish them well.

artsyca 6y ago
Yes it's on the shoulders of the hoi polloi who individually are utterly disempowered to do something about it -- I guess nothing has truly changed since the middle ages except tastes in music and dress. I've done my part fighting false corporacy bro. It's always the same scenario played over and over a bunch of diddling directors and middling managers cuddling up to their overlords while the team is sold up the river based on their performance evaluations. You'd think we'd learn to DRY but we can't apply systems thinking to our corporate citizenship it's easier to be governed by morlocks. Speaking of dress have you ever seen an engineering culture where people take their jobs seriously enough to dress up for work, outside of the movies? Huh me neither. Ever wonder why the root word of investment is 'vestment' as in 'article of clothing?' For me it was the millionth time I saw my manager wearing the same printed sweatshirt with an illustration of an astronaut that caused me to lose all hope for this industry as a whole. Edit - I guess you may not see the correlation but it goes to attitude Software people are so keen to fit in yet not seem organized that they refuse to dress up for work and this is a litmus test for whether they will ever be a strong group versus a collection of free radicals. Doubtful until a new generation able to see through the games comes through kinda like -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23404186 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23404186 The answer is always right under our noses but we refuse to see it. It's hard to wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep as it's said.
- cjhanks 6y ago
  Well written (I laughed), thank you for that.

artsyca 6y ago

Yes it's on the shoulders of the hoi polloi who individually are utterly disempowered to do something about it -- I guess nothing has truly changed since the middle ages except tastes in music and dress. I've done my part fighting false corporacy bro. It's always the same scenario played over and over a bunch of diddling directors and middling managers cuddling up to their overlords while the team is sold up the river based on their performance evaluations. You'd think we'd learn to DRY but we can't apply systems thinking to our corporate citizenship it's easier to be governed by morlocks. Speaking of dress have you ever seen an engineering culture where people take their jobs seriously enough to dress up for work, outside of the movies? Huh me neither. Ever wonder why the root word of investment is 'vestment' as in 'article of clothing?' For me it was the millionth time I saw my manager wearing the same printed sweatshirt with an illustration of an astronaut that caused me to lose all hope for this industry as a whole. Edit - I guess you may not see the correlation but it goes to attitude Software people are so keen to fit in yet not seem organized that they refuse to dress up for work and this is a litmus test for whether they will ever be a strong group versus a collection of free radicals. Doubtful until a new generation able to see through the games comes through kinda like -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23404186 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23404186 The answer is always right under our noses but we refuse to see it. It's hard to wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep as it's said.

cjhanks 6y ago
Well written (I laughed), thank you for that.