30 Dec
2012
30 Dec
'12
12:44 p.m.
In article <BA62757FB6E34DAAA346FA4560ACAB08 at hd2600xt6a04f7>,
"TeoZ" <teoz at neo.rr.com> writes:
I think people cease being good when they just
don't care about what they
are doing anymore, its just a paycheck.
I agree and I have seen this attitude in people fresh out of college
as well as people who have been in industry a long time (and have
always had that attitude).
We don't hire people with that attitude.
People who have 20-30 years in any
industry tend to be very good at their niche but they are also doing more
paperwork and sitting in meetings then worrying about the current state of
tools.
Odd. I've been paid to write software for about 35 years and I don't
find this to be true of myself or of my colleagues who have similar
amounts of time writing code.
However, there is a point where if you want your salary to continue
rising, you have to stop writing code and become a manager. I think
that is the thing that takes you out of the loop when it comes to good
practice in writing software. There's nothing wrong with that as long
as you're not deluding yourself as a manager that you are still on the
cutting technical edge of current practice. My manager, regularly
defers to the team on technical issues and concentrates more on the
business resource allocation problems.
Getting back to the problems described in the register article, I
invite all of you to go watch Brian Foote's google tech talk video on
the "Big Ball of Mud". <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6Y9aJhqO78>
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