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No offices, everyone work at home - everyone so busy... And then you look around, what is all this work achieving? What were we achieving when we worked in th
by feralimal 6y ago
No offices, everyone work at home - everyone so busy...
And then you look around, what is all this work achieving?
What were we achieving when we worked in the office? Were we doing anything real at all?
- politelemon 6y agoWe were sustaining the system that sustained us, so that we could sustain it.
- quickthrower2 6y agoWe’re all pixers. Making pixels appear.
- ozorOzora 6y agoI can relate to that, I feel like most computer stuff is a hamster wheel for smart peeps.
- matthewh806 6y agoI've come to the conclusion that maybe us computer people are not truly smart. And we just like the comfort of thinking that we are. Yes, we're good at logical thinking, implementing systems, reasoning about problems etc This just makes us useful in the end or good at a certain way of thinking. "Men of science may be simple tools of others, with no more idea what they are about than a hammer has of a house" I believe this is true of software developers too - if we were truly smart we wouldn't be on the hamster wheel in a cage belonging to someone else
- derwiki 6y agoIn the Gervais Principle, developers are all [economic] losers https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/ https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
- taneq 6y agoThis is why I like automation. Not test harnesses; actual machines that make things. It’s real in a way websites and apps just aren’t.
- ravenstine 6y agoNope.
- redisman 6y agoI’m doing computer stuff while listening to music in a comfortable office/home so I don’t have to till the fields or hunt deer to eat.