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Re:How terrible code gets written by sane people by dvt on Sunday February 19, 2017 @02:51PM (#13681592)
The irony is that some of those qualities are probably more likely to get you fired rather than valued.
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Re:How terrible code gets written by sane people by jaggederest on Sunday February 19, 2017 @03:07PM (#13681682)
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

- Upton Sinclair

I've experienced this firsthand. Pushing for better development tooling and fixing problems instead of pushing features gets you a pink slip. Part of the reason I run my own shop now.

It turns out the people most involved in estimating don't like it when you say that most estimates don't deliver any value.

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Re:How terrible code gets written by sane people by flukus on Sunday February 19, 2017 @08:03PM (#13683386)
And this is in a climate where developers can often pick and choose their jobs. Imagine if code was more commodified?
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