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Endlessly "dumbing down" lowest-common-denominator crap is what's responsible for the quality, or lack thereof, of most software today. Shunning knowledge and e

Endlessly "dumbing down" lowest-common-denominator crap is what's responsible for the quality, or lack thereof, of most software today. Shunning knowledge and education will come back to bite you.

bdjsiqoocwk 3y ago
Seconded. Not everything is about the sleep deprived on call guy, not everything is about reducing surprises, not everything is about operations. I had thought before that this "what about the guy at 3am arguments" push in the direction of mediocrity - happy to see I'm not the only one have these thoughts.
furyofantares 3y ago
> quality, or lack thereof, of most software today. Also the incredible quantity software today, and how dang cheap it is.
kccqzy 3y ago
Feel free to write your artisanal code in your personal projects. But they don't belong in most companies' code base. You are a cog in the machine at these companies. Your role is to produce code that's easily understood by the next programmer. That's why coding guidelines exist.
- kragen 3y ago
  that's why all those companies are using putty instead of their own ssh client; they're organizationally incapable of writing software of putty's quality
  - chongli 3y ago
    A lot of these companies don’t ship software at all, they write it only for internal use. It needs to be easily fixable by junior interns, not dependent on Bob the 100X programmer who decided to retire last week.
    - kragen 3y ago
      yeah, and of course you normally want as much as possible of your software to be easily fixable by junior interns in any case; that's always better when there's no compensating drawback the implicit premise of your comment, however, seems to be that no such compensating drawback is possible, presumably because internal-use-only software isn't a competitive advantage. there are a lot of companies that think that way, but i think it's shortsighted; see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39402299 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39402299 for some examples of companies that discovered that it mattered a lot how good their internal-use-only software was

Endlessly "dumbing down" lowest-common-denominator crap is what's responsible for the quality, or lack thereof, of most software today. Shunning knowledge and education will come back to bite you.

bdjsiqoocwk 3y ago

Seconded. Not everything is about the sleep deprived on call guy, not everything is about reducing surprises, not everything is about operations. I had thought before that this "what about the guy at 3am arguments" push in the direction of mediocrity - happy to see I'm not the only one have these thoughts.

furyofantares 3y ago

> quality, or lack thereof, of most software today. Also the incredible quantity software today, and how dang cheap it is.

kccqzy 3y ago

Feel free to write your artisanal code in your personal projects. But they don't belong in most companies' code base. You are a cog in the machine at these companies. Your role is to produce code that's easily understood by the next programmer. That's why coding guidelines exist.

kragen 3y ago
that's why all those companies are using putty instead of their own ssh client; they're organizationally incapable of writing software of putty's quality
- chongli 3y ago
  A lot of these companies don’t ship software at all, they write it only for internal use. It needs to be easily fixable by junior interns, not dependent on Bob the 100X programmer who decided to retire last week.
  - kragen 3y ago
    yeah, and of course you normally want as much as possible of your software to be easily fixable by junior interns in any case; that's always better when there's no compensating drawback the implicit premise of your comment, however, seems to be that no such compensating drawback is possible, presumably because internal-use-only software isn't a competitive advantage. there are a lot of companies that think that way, but i think it's shortsighted; see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39402299 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39402299 for some examples of companies that discovered that it mattered a lot how good their internal-use-only software was