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The same MBA-ization of Boeing has been happening in other companies as well, including in the IT sector. Seriously, how can we allow non-engineers to lead aerospace or tech companies at all?

The curse of software "engineering". Well, don't think you can call our discipline engineering at all.

If buildings were built the same way modern software gets built, we would never have the Burj Khalifa, the Shanghai Tower or the Tokyo Skytree. We'd probably still be living in holes in the ground, because that's the only fucking 'buildings' we'd be able to build.

If there's anything that needs to be discussed, we discuss it, good or bad.

Otherwise, we fill the rest of the 30 minutes with discussions about the weather, our hobbies, our daily lives. Given I work fully remotely and live alone (but do maintain a relatively good social life, nonetheless), this is one of the few work meetings I actually look forward to. I'm lucky that my line manager is a really nice person who shares many of my interests and hobbies as well.

Have a read of David Grabber’s essay “On the phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs”, it explains this phenomenon quite well.

Agree, well summarized. I believe this is all due to the phenomenon of "bullshit jobs" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs) which has taken a lot of traction since the off-shoring of most of the real jobs to China from the early 90's.

Web browsers have been trying to imitate operating systems for far too long now. We need to get away with this current model of using a document rendering language such as HTML/CSS and a terrible language such as JavaScript to build applications that feel slower and less responsive than the slowest Windows 3.1-era applications.

I was expecting the prize to be awarded to mRNA vaccines related work.

It's time to decentralize and open up the Internet again, as it once was (ie. IRC, NNTP and other open protocols) instead of relying on commercial entities (Google, Facebook, Reddit, Amazon) to control our data and access to it.

It's time to decentralize and open up the Internet again, as it once was (ie. IRC, NNTP and other open protocols) instead of relying on commercial entities (Google, Facebook, Amazon) to control our data and access to it.