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I don’t understand how software engineers get away with browsing the internet for fun at work when nobody else can

by Rd6n6 5y ago

themodelplumber 5y ago
Sounds more like personal development than fun?
- sillysaurusx 5y ago
  That's a bit like saying watching porn is more for personal development than fun. Perhaps you'll learn something, but it's incidental. I've learned a lot from HN. But it wouldn't be good to fool myself into thinking that an employer wants to fund my personal development in this regard. Otherwise, they'd pay me to HN all day. The crux of the issue is that it's impossible to work 8 hours every day. We all invent lies to fill the downtime.
  - themodelplumber 5y ago
    Is all that hyperbole really necessary? Each new sentence seems primed to leak edge and corner cases. Without giving more attention to such a rhetorical blind spot, I wonder how one could imagine they know the crux from the passenger side door.
    - sillysaurusx 5y ago
      Which sentence is mistaken?
      - themodelplumber 5y ago
        The one with all the generalizations
        sillysaurusx 5y ago
        If it’s mistaken, it should be easy to explain why. Otherwise I’m inclined to believe it’s merely an uncomfortable truth. Would your employer pay you to HN all day? If not, precisely how much of your day are they comfortable with you HN’ing? Are you sure it’s officially approved?
        kritiko 5y ago
        There’s often good intel on here that I have not been exposed to on other sources. Obviously spending 40 hours a week reading HN and getting into politics arguments on here is a waste, but there’s plenty of relevant news for most folks in tech if you stick to those topics.
        loopz 5y ago
        Do you collect stats, how assertions line up with facts? Otherwise, what may seem likely and catchy, might just as well be opinionated, unsubstantiated and patchy.
chadcmulligan 5y ago
https://xkcd.com/303/ https://xkcd.com/303/ Waiting for Compiles is the usual, there's a lot of waiting in software - waiting for compiles, scripts to run, someone else to do something.

I don’t understand how software engineers get away with browsing the internet for fun at work when nobody else can

by Rd6n6 5y ago

I don’t understand how software engineers get away with browsing the internet for fun at work when nobody else can

themodelplumber 5y ago

Sounds more like personal development than fun?

sillysaurusx 5y ago
That's a bit like saying watching porn is more for personal development than fun. Perhaps you'll learn something, but it's incidental. I've learned a lot from HN. But it wouldn't be good to fool myself into thinking that an employer wants to fund my personal development in this regard. Otherwise, they'd pay me to HN all day. The crux of the issue is that it's impossible to work 8 hours every day. We all invent lies to fill the downtime.
- themodelplumber 5y ago
  Is all that hyperbole really necessary? Each new sentence seems primed to leak edge and corner cases. Without giving more attention to such a rhetorical blind spot, I wonder how one could imagine they know the crux from the passenger side door.
  - sillysaurusx 5y ago
    Which sentence is mistaken?
    - themodelplumber 5y ago
      The one with all the generalizations
      - sillysaurusx 5y ago
        If it’s mistaken, it should be easy to explain why. Otherwise I’m inclined to believe it’s merely an uncomfortable truth. Would your employer pay you to HN all day? If not, precisely how much of your day are they comfortable with you HN’ing? Are you sure it’s officially approved?
        kritiko 5y ago
        There’s often good intel on here that I have not been exposed to on other sources. Obviously spending 40 hours a week reading HN and getting into politics arguments on here is a waste, but there’s plenty of relevant news for most folks in tech if you stick to those topics.
        loopz 5y ago
        Do you collect stats, how assertions line up with facts? Otherwise, what may seem likely and catchy, might just as well be opinionated, unsubstantiated and patchy.

chadcmulligan 5y ago

https://xkcd.com/303/ https://xkcd.com/303/ Waiting for Compiles is the usual, there's a lot of waiting in software - waiting for compiles, scripts to run, someone else to do something.