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Sounds dystopian. Would you want to be forced to wear a heavy headset that nagged you to comment your code and write unit tests?

by fooker 3y ago

viscanti 3y ago
If it means that I get to work with well commented and tested code, that might be worth it.
- fooker 3y ago
  It's an interesting philosophical dilemma. What else would you be willing to force on everyone to improve (in your opinion) your circumstances? We clearly do this a bit (taxes, vaccines, etc), but finding the threshold is very tricky, and can lead to pretty authoritarian environments.
  - hhshhhhjjjd 3y ago
    Well, as someone living in the United States, I live with the saddening understanding that our military spending indicates that we're willing to immiserate large swaths of the world's population for increasingly diminishing returns. It's authoritarian enough that I have no choice but to support our military decisions through the taxes I pay.
    - fooker 3y ago
      It's colonialism without the responsibility of administering large populations. I don't know if there's a solution though, there are other sharks vying to do far worse.
  - twodave 3y ago
    We’ve already agreed to certain food standards. The fact that people don’t follow them is enough for me to say we need something more strict. Is it a headset? Maybe not. But periodic training and availability of PPE aren’t doing the job either. The shortage of labor at the low end of the market doesn’t help, either. What I’d rather have than a germophobic headset is for people to take pride in their work (whether you serve food or write code), but that also seems to be a lost cause. I’m lucky if I can get a restaurant to count the number of items in the bag before handing it to the delivery driver.
GrinningFool 3y ago
If it meant that my code wouldn't make other people sick...
twodave 3y ago
Who says it has to be heavy? While I’m wishing I’ll wish for it to weigh the same as a regular pair of glasses…

Sounds dystopian. Would you want to be forced to wear a heavy headset that nagged you to comment your code and write unit tests?

by fooker 3y ago

Sounds dystopian. Would you want to be forced to wear a heavy headset that nagged you to comment your code and write unit tests?

viscanti 3y ago

If it means that I get to work with well commented and tested code, that might be worth it.

fooker 3y ago
It's an interesting philosophical dilemma. What else would you be willing to force on everyone to improve (in your opinion) your circumstances? We clearly do this a bit (taxes, vaccines, etc), but finding the threshold is very tricky, and can lead to pretty authoritarian environments.
- hhshhhhjjjd 3y ago
  Well, as someone living in the United States, I live with the saddening understanding that our military spending indicates that we're willing to immiserate large swaths of the world's population for increasingly diminishing returns. It's authoritarian enough that I have no choice but to support our military decisions through the taxes I pay.
  - fooker 3y ago
    It's colonialism without the responsibility of administering large populations. I don't know if there's a solution though, there are other sharks vying to do far worse.
- twodave 3y ago
  We’ve already agreed to certain food standards. The fact that people don’t follow them is enough for me to say we need something more strict. Is it a headset? Maybe not. But periodic training and availability of PPE aren’t doing the job either. The shortage of labor at the low end of the market doesn’t help, either. What I’d rather have than a germophobic headset is for people to take pride in their work (whether you serve food or write code), but that also seems to be a lost cause. I’m lucky if I can get a restaurant to count the number of items in the bag before handing it to the delivery driver.

GrinningFool 3y ago

If it meant that my code wouldn't make other people sick...

twodave 3y ago

Who says it has to be heavy? While I’m wishing I’ll wish for it to weigh the same as a regular pair of glasses…