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Why is that an appropriate measure? Are chefs sad that none of the meals they created are still around?

• NortySpock 3y ago
  Does an empathetic doctor not smile when they see their patients in good health? Does a lawyer not take pride in a well-written contract that shielded their company when the client turned adversarial? Does a former mayor not visit the parks they opened, the civil works projects that they helped organize or brokered deals for? Does a salesman not remember their biggest sale? Their wildest outing? Their most critical conversation where they saved (or lost) a deal? Does a restaurant manager not eventually sit down in a quiet corner of the restaurant, eat a meal in peace, and enjoy the background murmur of their patrons? Does an electrical engineer not smile when they drive by a substation they helped design? Does a teacher not remember their most successful students? Does a parent not remember their children? Why would a software developer not want to know how long their projects lasted? Why would they not measure their impact in terms of messages sent, or mean-time-between-failure, or ROI / cost-to-benefit ratio, or smiles-per-hour? I'm not saying every line of code I write was one I was proud of, but I have dug into thorny problems, crafted solutions that were good enough, and been happy to see the code stay in service with only a very light touch needed to keep it on track. Of that, I am proud.
  • thfuran 3y ago
    >Why would a software developer not want to know how long their projects lasted? But the software is a tool used by customers to do the actual equivalents of the things you listed. As you said for the lawyer: They're happy the the contract fulfilled its purpose, not that it's still sitting on a shelf somewhere.