Ask HN: How to encourage curiosity in developers

Re:Ask HN: How to encourage curiosity in developers by werk on Wednesday March 31, 2010 @04:04AM (#1231183)

Repetitive coding tasks will burn the curiosity out of anyone. The only solution is to not have "IT organizations".

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Re:Ask HN: How to encourage curiosity in developers by c1sc0 on Wednesday March 31, 2010 @04:24AM (#1231215)

You may be onto something here: IT is under constant pressure to squeeze ever more performance out of its workers. Optimizing for performance means taking a common task, standardizing it to make sure that it can be easily repeated without much effort.

What do you mean by "not having IT organizations"? What is the alternative?

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Re:Ask HN: How to encourage curiosity in developers by pipe2-dev-null on Wednesday March 31, 2010 @04:57AM (#1231252)

Kill the patient!

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Re:Ask HN: How to encourage curiosity in developers by bioinformatik on Wednesday March 31, 2010 @05:17AM (#1231277)

I'm not sure eliminating IT or 'killing the patient' as you so eloquently phrase it, is a viable solution for many companies. What can be done to increase the metabolic activity of creativity in said patient instead of killing him?

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