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I will not hire anyone to my software teams who thinks their job is to create art for its own sake. If you can’t tie your work back to creating value, you have
by TameAntelope 5y ago
I will not hire anyone to my software teams who thinks their job is to create art for its own sake. If you can’t tie your work back to creating value, you have no place on my teams, and that includes wasting time rebuilding worse versions of libraries that already exist.
- WJW 5y agoIt's pretty sure that I wouldn't want to hire someone as argumentative as you either, but I don't see how we went from "Don't think about how a library works - until you have to" (which I still think is hilariously circular and not very useful) to accusing each other of rebuilding worse versions of libraries just because. In fact, a few comments up we touched on having actual facts as the basis for decisions so how you interpreted that as "art for it's own sake" is a mystery to me. In any case, have a good evening good sir and all the best in your software engineering endeavors.
- TameAntelope 5y agoHeh, if you think this is argumentative, you probably wouldn't fit on any healthy software team that actually tries to work together.
- ameliaquining 5y agoI work on a healthy software team that successfully works together and it's nowhere near this acrimonious.
- TameAntelope 5y agoWhat's interesting about this comment is that more or less entirely disproves itself.
- ameliaquining 5y agoI mean, I'm not at work right now. My interactions with my coworkers aren't like this.
- TameAntelope 5y agoThat’s unlikely. You are yourself all the time, and either you act this way all the time, or you don’t feel safe to be yourself on your work team, which indicates an unhealthy team environment. Unless you’re saying you’re uncharacteristically acrimonious on HN, which would itself be an even odder choice…