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Don't work at megacorps where people are incentivized to ship big milestone branded projects and "quantifiable" impact because you will end up with massive code
by mynameisnoone 3y ago
Don't work at megacorps where people are incentivized to ship big milestone branded projects and "quantifiable" impact because you will end up with massive codebases that are never refactored, over-engineered with such failures as code generation and abstract interfaces for everything, and keep layering on crap while tech debt entropy maximizes and relative agility grinds to a halt.
- jongjong 3y agoAgreed. Big tech is not were you learn good coding. There's no way they can recover from it. Most HR people there have no idea what they're doing and devs are all political and self-interest and it's probably full of foreign intelligence operatives who are interested in complexity as it helps them to hide backdoors all over the place.
- totetsu 3y agoHow many documented public cases are there of intelligence operatives hiding backdoors in things.
- halfcat 3y agoNone. That’s how you know they’re good at hiding them.
- mynameisnoone 3y agoDoes Dual_EC_DRBG count?
- mynameisnoone 3y agoTripleByte flails its arms and says it can help. I still think there ought to be formalized, international journeyman and apprenticeship programs for SWE, HWE, SRE, QA, product management, project management, and technical management independent of employer. The lack of generational knowledge and culture transfer leads to droves of novices learning bad habits.