Re:Ask HN: What would you do if your income was taken care of?
by devbot9 on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @09:26AM
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In your opinion, what is the biggest failing of software engineering now that you hope to correct with a "true" engineering society?
Re:Ask HN: What would you do if your income was taken care of?
by ribasushi on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @01:58PM
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In short ( and in very broad strokes ): there is virtually zero respect for the enduser's time[1]. And there are no incentives ( regulatory or otherwise ) for things to get better on this front.
[1] Note - I literally mean "time". Not security/privacy/safety/property, but more fundamentally and simply "time". Or in way better words: https://youtu.be/upu0gwGi4FE?t=1548
I would invest all my energy and anger, 25 hours/day, using every contact and connection I have, in an attempt to displace the current shitshow of "software engineering" with a true engineering society[1]. Or to put it in another way: I would not rest until the vast majority of HN readers are out of their job writing software. Too much is at stake.
I expect to get on this in 5~10 years either way: I sadly had to take a break from tilting at windmills when my debts crossed into 6 digits. Hopefully it is not too late by then.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering_ethics#General_pri...