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Fully agree regarding the motivations. The thing many young devs don't realize that there's a reason for doing things a certain way. It's not "just because this
by koliber 2y ago
Fully agree regarding the motivations. The thing many young devs don't realize that there's a reason for doing things a certain way. It's not "just because this is the best way to build everything."
- reaperducer 2y agoThe thing many young devs don't realize that there's a reason for doing things a certain way. It's not "just because this is the best way to build everything." 90% of the modern tech industry is monkey-see-monkey-do. Plenty of devs on HN who are vocally proud that they don't think about how the things they build work, they just build.
- Filligree 2y agoThat's not the tech industry, that's just everything. And that's generally fine. We're good at imitation. It's not that most people can't have their own thoughts, but they save that for things that are more important than work -- or at least I hope that's the case.
- jrm4 2y agoSure but the one not fine thing: There's still just about ZERO accountability for harm. We need regulation or liability, yesterday.
- jrm4 2y agoI teach IT and the thing I try to drill home; the entirety of IT is NOT intelligent design, it's evolution (for BUSINESS, not for tech) -- which includes a whole lot of vestigial stupidity and awfulness.