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Agreed. Based on my lab experiences, it might have been more accurate for the author to write that often code is not being written by individuals who are the in
by abcc8 6y ago
Agreed. Based on my lab experiences, it might have been more accurate for the author to write that often code is not being written by individuals who are the intellectual drivers of the lab. In many labs the 'thinkers' get far more credit and are more valued than the 'doers'.
- bjarneh 6y ago> In many labs the 'thinkers' get far more credit and are more valued than the 'doers' In terms of software this never made much sense to me. I would understand if we where talking chemistry or some other discipline where a "new idea" has to be investigated/verified by some "lab-rat" doing mundane tasks for 2 years. In that case the lab-rat would probably get less credit than the person with the actual idea, but this just does not apply to software. Developers are not doing mundane tasks on behalf of some great thinker.
- abcc8 6y agoRarely are the developers writing grants, generating hypotheses, planning experiments, composing manuscripts, presenting the lab's work, teaching at the university, etc. Perhaps my choice of words was poor, but this should be more clear.
- bjarneh 6y agoI guess this differs from place to place, but at my university (Oslo), we did all that..