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Your kind of work is absolutely necessary for commercial software to run. You’d get crucified in an internal IT department where funding is entirely driven by
by mathattack 5y ago
Your kind of work is absolutely necessary for commercial software to run. You’d get crucified in an internal IT department where funding is entirely driven by new features, and 80% done usually has to be good enough.
- ornornor 5y agoAnd then, a few years down the line, “adding a simple button” takes a month because the foundation is rotten, the architecture is garbage, and spending any time refactoring or writing tests is “gold polishing” and “unnecessary work”. Never mind that everyone is afraid of changing anything in the application because ten other seemingly unrelated things will break. Fun times.
- jbverschoor 5y agoWhat I think is funny, is that developers get the most advanced tools out there (IDE, repl, debuggers, etc), for free. But deliver junk, blaming "the user" The same is true for resource requirements and performance. People complain about their OS (windows, macos, sometimes linux or some VM), and that it takes 1 whole minute to boot, while some projects take a couple of minutes to start.
- detaro 5y agoHeh, on the other hand it's also not uncommon to see complaints that developers refuse to pay for good tools, despite knowing first-hand that good software is hard to make.
- 3pt14159 5y agoMy host OS takes about a second or two to boot and my VM OS takes about 5 seconds. A whole minute would drive me insane. We should not be waiting this long for computers to turn on.
- the_only_law 5y agoCurrently my PC takes several minutes to boot, however I know the exact cause. I wonder how much boot time could be reduced by tuning settings, including not to start a lot if crap.