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It's not a loss center per se, but profligate treatment of company resources, to an extent, reflects poorly on other aspects of the business. The best programm
by niggler 14y ago
It's not a loss center per se, but profligate treatment of company resources, to an extent, reflects poorly on other aspects of the business.
The best programmers I have had the pleasure of working with maintained a very orderly desk and were very disciplined with use of resources in real life. Interestingly enough, you could gleam that from the style of their codes.
- jrockway 14y agoI have a very disorderly desk but write very orderly code. I can't say I've ever met anyone with an orderly desk, actually.
- niggler 14y agodisorder to a great extent is evidence of a lack of organization, and the best people generally keep everything in order (including their desks)
- Evbn 14y agoYou are trolling, right? Einstein's desk was this messy :-)
- niggler 14y agoEinstein was also not a programmer :) I had the great honor of working with Brian Kernighan (I would personally consider him one of the greatest programmers that the world has seen) and was taken aback by his organization skills. My conclusion is clearly based on my experiences.
- mikeash 14y agoStrictly regulating items whose cost is not significant to the company's bottom line is also a profligate treatment of company resources i.e. employees, it's just less visible. This whole conversation sounds like one gigantic bundle of cognitive bias to me. People will naturally notice the companies that strictly ration their equipment and are also frugal where it counts, and the companies that give equipment away freely and also spend tens of thousands of dollars on statue repainting, while not noticing the companies that waste money that matters while also maintaining a tight regimen of equipment oversight, or the companies that are frugal where it matters but don't try to strictly control the dispensing of trivial office equipment.
- niggler 14y agoI disagree. I think people can distinguish between running a tight ship and penny-pinching.