How work has gotten better

Re:How work has gotten better by eli_gottlieb on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @12:30AM (#11665154)

To be frank, I completely disagree, and I get the feeling that so do most people, actually. We don't call it "work" because it's pleasant and fun. I see this as someone who finds his job genuinely engaging and almost, though not quite, a benefit to society, and whose alternate career paths would potentially involve more benefit to society and even more engagement in my work. My job would actually be fun if not for the unpleasant necessities involved in treating it as business that actually has to ship a product some day, which is of course exactly what makes it at all useful to society and not just a shared team hobby.

Of course, the alternate career path would also involve significantly longer hours for significantly lower pay (ie: going back into academia), which brings us right back around to the point that it's called work because you don't like doing so damn much of it.

Also, it really would have helped to segment out the statistics by income and education levels. Remember, the arithmetic average of a power-law distribution does not make sense.

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Re:How work has gotten better by Qantourisc on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @02:02AM (#11665412)

FOSS still ships, why wouldn't your team ?

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Re:How work has gotten better by nvdk on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @07:07AM (#11666290)

Most successful FOSS projects are backed by companies who have employees work on them. I would love to see some statistics on pure "hobby FOSS" vs "commercial FOSS" and their deliverables.

Based on my own experience I would say most hobby FOSS projects ship a lot less frequently than the commercial FOSS projects.

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Re:How work has gotten better by AstralStorm on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @03:27AM (#11665660)

One in how many projects ships? And of those, how many are actually useful and useable?

Scratching the itch goes only so far.

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Re:How work has gotten better by marcosdumay on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @09:41AM (#11667029)

Easy there or we might discover that FOSS numbers are better than enterprise ones.

There's a very low bar to pass, and FOSS is going back into the UNIX's small software philosophy[1]. Scratching an itch may likely go far enough.

[1] Yes, sometimes too small. Maybe we need new kinds of consolidation projects.

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Re:How work has gotten better by Bartweiss on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @10:55AM (#11667632)

The point about segmenting is big.

I was absolutely baffled to see "people can't afford to move for work" answered by "the typical household is more mobile". That's not the same thing! The typical household isn't involuntarily unemployed, which is what we're talking about in the first place!

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