Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormalize full-time jobs

Re:Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormal... by slg on Sunday March 08, 2020 @08:03PM (#22521647)

As software developers we can probably empathize. I know I have been working on production code and found years old comments written by me along the following lines:

//Hacky solution to get a working prototype, should be refactored before deployment.

Legislative and regulatory debt can be a problem just like technical debt.

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Re:Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormal... by Ericson2314 on Sunday March 08, 2020 @08:53PM (#22521923)

> Legislative and regulatory debt can be a problem just like technical debt

I really wish there was more appreciation for this outside of tech. I'm disdainful of a lot of SV libertarianism, to say the least, but will gladly make common cause on this one point.

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Re:Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormal... by blaser-waffle on Monday March 09, 2020 @11:01AM (#22525914)

Debt implies that we know there is a shortcoming and want/need to fix it, but don't have the time or knowledge.

The healthcare situation in the US may have started out as a hacky WW2 era fix, but has been explicitly and aggressively lobbied against for years at the highests levels of government.

Framing it in a technocratic context as "technical debt, but for laws and stuff" completely misses the intense crusade against it in the US.

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Re:Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormal... by Ericson2314 on Monday March 09, 2020 @03:07PM (#22528607)

I'm not sure it misses the point. Technical debt is always poltical too, whether it's system admin / database admin work being automated away (or not!), or manager<->engineer friction on costs and deadlines.

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