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Cowboy Engineers in the Software Industry

posted by janrinok on Sunday March 02 2014, @11:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the was-it-much-harder-in-my-day? dept.

shabadoo writes:

"Will software engineering always be a cowboy's game? Or is it just a case of when you're a passionate expert the pimples stand out more clearly. This guy has clearly had enough. His vents are amusing, but also raise some good points about the state of the industry."

 
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  • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Monday March 03 2014, @12:35PM

    by TheRaven (270) on Monday March 03 2014, @12:35PM (#10005) Journal

    While I enjoyed the article, it definitely deserves a -1 flamebait tag. If your goal is to promote comments, then it should work (although the summary was terrible and could have done with a rewrite). If your goal is to promote interesting and informative comments, then this article is likely to fail.

    There are two very common forms of idiocy: assuming that because something is popular it is good, and assuming that because something is popular it is bad. This article poses modes of thought as a false dichotomy between these two and then tells you to pick one.

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  • (Score: 2) by Open4D on Monday March 03 2014, @03:46PM

    by Open4D (371) on Monday March 03 2014, @03:46PM (#10084) Journal

    the summary was terrible and could have done with a rewrite

    I don't know if it has been changed since you wrote this, but the summary doesn't currently seem that bad to me. Is it a bit short, with insufficient detail? Yes, perhaps, but I still knew I was going to get a rant about the industry. Is it a bit idiosyncratic in its use of certain words, like 'pimple', 'vents' and 'cowboy'? Yes, but I don't necessarily expect all stories to adhere to the BBC style guide [bbc.co.uk].

    In the first week of SN I submitted 2 stories that were accepted, which weren't particularly good. I'm glad people were a bit more forgiving back in those days! Oh, how things have changed around here ...