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It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It
by ta1243 3y ago
It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y agoShow me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome
- shadowgovt 3y agoIn this case, it's not even his salary: it's his comfort and ease of labor. It's hard to support a heterogeneous space of user agents running on a heterogeneous set of platforms. Eventually, abstractions break and you end up with a weird bug that only manifests on such-and-such browser in so-and-so configuration. How much easier life is if you only have to support a few browsers on hardware that checksums to have a known-good configuration...
- dleeftink 3y agoIn the end, does ease of development outweigh all secondary parties affected in this case?
- echelon 3y agoDistribution of power is worth the overhead.
- somsak2 3y agoYou think people care more about that than their salary?
- shadowgovt 3y agoIt'd vary from person to person, but to a first approximation: Googlers are well-compensated and can be well-compensated at a lot of places. The next best compensation the company can offer them is minimizing drudgework. Chasing down render errors in the deep interactions between declarative HTML rendering and an esoteric-but-important hardware / software configuration is drudgework.
- dleeftink 3y agoOn the other side, drudgework, in all its dullness and frustration, is still work. If there's less of it, some jobs may be disappear--cushy salary or not. Some of my best ideas even, came out of clearing drudge.