If Software Is Eating The World, Why Don't Coders Get Any Respect?

Re:If Software Is Eating The World, Why Don't Coders Get Any... by Joeri on Wednesday August 24, 2011 @02:35PM (#2921967)

"When the average corporate user spends most of his time in front of a computer, forced to use boring applications day-in and day-out, how do you think he feels about the people that build those applications?"

The thing is that those apps don't have to be boring. Most apps are low-quality, in code and design, as a result of a management philosophy that considers developers as low-value. Apple is a good counter-example. They put a high value in quality of code and design, and as a result even their settings dialogs are a pleasure to use. I've never come across a category of software that couldn't be made pleasant to use with some inspired design and coding.

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Re:If Software Is Eating The World, Why Don't Coders Get Any... by CrLf on Thursday August 25, 2011 @05:40AM (#2924337)

I say that corporate apps are boring whatever you do to make them less so. Corporate users don't use those apps because they want to, they use them because they must use them to perform their work. It's the obligation that's the killer.

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