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How is that?

• hobs 4y ago
  A lot of software is just like a lot of white collar work - just bullshit moving stuff around. The key word is most - A good example is many enterprise software companies. They sell a product made to fit a purpose that someone in power thinks it should, but doesn't qualify whether or not that's the case. The customer is sold the software as an appeal to their ego and supposed needs that they might spend millions of dollars on. The people on the ground have the software "purchased" for them and they basically are told "it's this or the highway" quarterly releases often leave people head scratching why anyone would give a shit. Big parties are thrown to celebrate implementations that even in the medium term have no utility and you would been better off spending it on hookers and blow. There's so much of the industry that's just running on a treadmill.
• woeirua 4y ago
  The way I look at it, is that if your job disappeared overnight would anyone even notice? A great example here is Twitter. Elon fired (by conservative estimates) over 2/3 of their total staff. Yet the service runs just as it did before. What were those people doing? Did their work matter at all?