Nikita Prokopov has written a blog post detailing disenchantment with current software development. He has been writing software for 15 years and now regards the industry’s growing lack of care for efficiency, simplicity, and excellence as a problem to be solved. He addresses the following points one by one:
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Thursday October 04 2018, @06:00PM (1 child)
See my comment above about the size of the bluetooth stack on Fedora. That isn't being driven by rampant consumerism, it is driven by stupidity.
(Score: 2) by arslan on Thursday October 04 2018, @10:22PM
Sure. I'm sure there lots of example of true stupidity in code. I've seen em myself and dailyWTF and codinghorror has lots of em. The blog post talks about bloatware in browsers and our PCs getting beefier but still going slow. In general all these are because of adware and telemetry. That is not just coding stupidity. That is conscious capitalism.