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Re:Responding to “Are bugs and slow delivery ok?”:The blog p... by nickelbob on Thursday July 06, 2023 @04:18PM (#36622222)
Perhaps one solution is to divorce your own self worth from the quality of the software you happen to write and to realize that you are an employee first and a software engineer second - make decisions that increase the amount of money the company makes and look for self worth in that itself or in hobbies/family/friends/something else.
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Re:Responding to “Are bugs and slow delivery ok?”:The blog p... by braza on Sunday July 09, 2023 @01:53AM (#36651949)
That’s was the main reason that I do my pet projects: to detach myself from some corporate persona that is a completely different from my professional self.

I still have a lot of professional pride, but it comes more from my personal projects and sharpening my craft than to some corporate version that could be dragged down by structural issues.

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Re:Responding to “Are bugs and slow delivery ok?”:The blog p... by int_19h on Sunday July 09, 2023 @03:54PM (#36658223)
If one is going to go there, why not make decisions that increase the amount of money you make? Why help companies succeed shipping crappy software?
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Re:Responding to “Are bugs and slow delivery ok?”:The blog p... by nickelbob on Saturday July 22, 2023 @12:01PM (#36827357)
If your self worth is related to how much money you make (not saying that's bad) then go for it!
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