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A friend of mine, from Facebook's networking team, also spent a month there. He came back with a thousand-yard stare.
by aristus 13y ago
A friend of mine, from Facebook's networking team, also spent a month there. He came back with a thousand-yard stare.
- laz 13y agoThe environment takes a toll on everyone, some more than others. The things I've seen ... you cannot un-see ;)
- angersock 13y agoYeah, I wonder if anybody has done studies on the psychological damage of developers working on shitty accumulated cruft? It's definitely a form of mental dissonance.
- sailfast 13y agoThis is the case across billions of taxpayer dollars worth of IT systems in hundreds of agencies, but many of the contractors don't realize the insanity they generate and the stares they have caused. The government needs a lot of help. I wish there were more crisis opportunities like this to use as an excuse to hire the right team to build good systems for citizens. Tough to get systems integration above the fold regularly to call attention to the issue.
- aryastark 13y agothere is apparently a generational gap here. There are people that have read The Mythical Man-Month, and then there are people that go and re-live it.
- nobodysfool 13y agoYea I don't get why we romanticize working long hours and crunch time / overtime. If they would have worked standard 8 hour days things probably would have gotten better faster. In my opinion, working more than 8 hours a day tells me that you're wasting time.