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What's wrong with the last sentence? For ease of consumption, the context again: > On the other end of the scale are people who want to write beautiful code,
by cxr 3y ago
What's wrong with the last sentence?
For ease of consumption, the context again:
> On the other end of the scale are people who want to write beautiful code, spend lots of time on it, and don’t care if it actually does what it was intended to do or what the budget was. Somewhere in between, there is a balance.
- sillysaurusx 3y agoIt’s remarkably uncommon to find an employee who strikes a balance between the two. But I think this doesn’t make the sentence wrong.
- myst 3y agoLiterally everyone strikes the balance. According to their experience. The older, the more experienced, the more balanced.
- Denvercoder9 3y agoThere's a difference in the balance that people like to do, and what's best for the organization. I definitely can't deny that I've sometimes gone for the side that made my job better for me, but not necessarily helped the organization the most.
- 1letterunixname 3y agoThe problem is corporate interests usually demand expedience and individual, short-term output while dismissing any notion of craftsmanship, completeness, correctness, or long-term investment. More and more corporations have completely stopped investing in employee education, career, and professional development apart from harassment and privacy training videos.
- creer 3y agoI'll go with: the sentence takes this as a dimension, this at one end, that at the other. While perhaps what matters is on an entirely different dimension. From a point of view of usefulness to its users, is there a strong correlation with whether the project was "thrown over the fence" or is a work of software artistry?
- lolive 3y agoAfter reading all the comments, I realise I misinterpretated the last two sentences. I thought Bram was concluding that you have to accept the same kind of trade-off you accept in the frame of professional software development, when you deliver an app you are really dedicated to. Obviously, Bram, or Linus, or Stallman, and many other devs I don’t even know, are not there for delivering half-baked pieces of art. And that’s eventually a GOOD thing. [the counterpart being that the dedication level is MUCH beyond the one in professional environments]