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The place I joined a while back had someone with a terrible case of the "oh man why we gotta do that" ... they eventually invited him to move on and my boss took his place and then I came in.
Version control was... folders on his laptop, and so on.
Boss man talks to him on his way out and ... like half the reasons for not doing X, Y, Z were problems created by not adopting X, Y, Z. -
@magicMirror
Key difference is that was a fashion-based decision made by a know-nothing manager. There was no data or rationale behind it š -
I think the gap between those who measure and those who have god complex will be only increasing.
The demand for software is still growing exponentially and I don’t see people changing dramatically so knowledge will be disappearing sooner or later.
Who will teach good manners all of those young horny to make big things, pushed by mindless managers idiots who think they can change the world with for loop ?
The problem will be when all of those so called ‘good guys’ will pass away or will be expelled by jealous assholes living big complex systems that no one understands why they were build cause there are no successors. -
@vane
Yep, the warhammer future is inevitable. -
@SortOfTested I think the main problem is as software development hit mainstream is illusion that anybody can do it and that everyone blindly believes in that.
They don’t want to get into their minds that you need to have certain level of intelligence and math knowledge to understand how to move their “simple” world to virtual space. -
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@N00bPancakes Well imagine there are ~9 billions of people and you want to find < 1% who can do certain things. Pragmatically it’s just easier to lie everyone that anybody can do it and earn big money then go one by one and ask if they’re willing to help.
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@vane to continue this thread what we didn’t took into consideration is that maybe just maybe those people are not money driven. So they will lose interest and do something else living world with lots of unmaintainable software no one understands.
That’s what’s slowly happening but blind people don’t see. -
@vane
The unfortunate part of that track, at least at the moment, is they're "losing interest" into management, and just bringing more of themselves into the profession. -
@SortOfTested I learned hard way to not assume anything as most interesting parts of life are beyond our imagination.
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