Re:Is developer compensation becoming bimodal?
by watwut on Friday February 09, 2018 @08:58AM
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He produced useful, if poor quality, software. It did helped at a time and when it cease to be useful, it is small enough to be completely replaced with something else (instead of maintained).
It is ok to throw away things and not everything needs to be scalable.
It is also not best practice to base everything on the idea that everybody must be experienced senior to do anything. Many tasks are suitable for inexperienced juniors, because that is enough and it is small enough to throw it away if it goes bad.
The things that were most useful for people I worked for were not the things that were most difficult to create.
It is ok to throw away things and not everything needs to be scalable.
It is also not best practice to base everything on the idea that everybody must be experienced senior to do anything. Many tasks are suitable for inexperienced juniors, because that is enough and it is small enough to throw it away if it goes bad.
The things that were most useful for people I worked for were not the things that were most difficult to create.