I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old boss [video]

Re:I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old... by lmm on Monday October 14, 2013 @09:55AM (#6547236)

I'm like this professionally too; in fact it's my professional experience that informs this political view (I was a fairly gung-ho socialist before I became a professional developer). Attempting to fundamentally re-architect a software system almost always ends in disaster - I've seen it happen, or http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html is the standard reference.

What works? Incremental changes that you can make while keeping the current system running. It's ok if you have some grand masterplan behind your changes, but try and make sure those small changes will be valuable even if you have to abandon the grand plan, or change its direction. So I now approach politics this way, and it feels like this is a more mature position, not less.

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Re:I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old... by jahaja on Monday October 14, 2013 @02:55PM (#6548932)

I think we basically agree, but your reply was a dogmatic one. Discarding the notion of political change without bothering to listen to, or express arguments.

Gradual change do not exclude fundamental change - eventually. Revolution is after all just evolution speeded up. It's just a different approach.

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Re:I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old... by lmm on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @06:37AM (#6552481)

I was flippant and dismissive yes, but I think that comment I originally replied to - "Capitalists can't do this? Because other capitalists will drive them out of business? My my, isn't the system really fucked! Time for some radical architectural changes." - was unlikely to be worth engaging with.

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