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Cowboy Engineers in the Software Industry

posted by janrinok on Sunday March 02 2014, @11:59PM   
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."

• Come on eds..Come on eds.. (Score: 5, Insightful) by BradTheGeek on Monday March 03 2014, @12:29AM

  by BradTheGeek (450) on Monday March 03 2014, @12:29AM (#9835)

  I have a low UID, I contributed at least a little time and threw my hat in the ring for editor. I have remained silent, until now. One of the stated goals of altslashdot was to hew to higher editorial standards.

  I do not care if TFA sucks, others may like it. But can we at least take the time to make TFS include pertinent information? It also seems as if we suffer from to many articles/too few comments. By lowering the amount of posted articles, we may get more comments, and more time can be spent editing the submission to be more useful.

  I know there is a fine balance between lightly massaging a submission and completely changing it, but sometimes the hammer is needed. In any case, a small, fine print link to the original submission could help alleviate issues arising from heavy handed rewrites.

  Starting Score:	1		point
  Moderation		+4
  Insightful=3, Informative=1, Total=4
  Extra 'Insightful' Modifier		0
  Total Score:		5

• Re:Come on eds..Re:Come on eds.. (Score: 4, Interesting) by frojack on Monday March 03 2014, @12:55AM

  by frojack (1554) on Monday March 03 2014, @12:55AM (#9844) Journal

  Was there any heavy handed rewrite involved here? How would you know? Maybe the original submission was just as terrible as what we see above.

  Be that as it may,
  I thought it was just another flog of a blog. Until I read said blog, and realized the summary had nothing to do with the blog, instead I stepped into a cow pie dropped by another "get away from the computer till you get your maths degree" ranter.

  I want my 3 minutes back.

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  • Re:Come on eds..Re:Come on eds.. (Score: 3, Insightful) by L5GwL on Monday March 03 2014, @02:06AM

    by L5GwL (1751) on Monday March 03 2014, @02:06AM (#9873)

    I think what the OP was saying was that the summary needed a heavy-handed rewrite but didn't receive it.
    I would have preferred (like you, I think) the submission to have been simply ignored.

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    • Re:Come on eds..(Score: 2) by janrinok on Monday March 03 2014, @09:39AM

      by janrinok (52) on Monday March 03 2014, @09:39AM (#9962) Journal

      Point noted - thanks.

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    • Re:Come on eds..(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Monday March 03 2014, @12:32PM

      by TheRaven (270) on Monday March 03 2014, @12:32PM (#10002) Journal

      Or perhaps sent back with a 'good link, needs a better summary - want to write one?' message.

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  • Re:Come on eds..(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03 2014, @12:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03 2014, @12:43PM (#10009)

    I found it to be quite funny.
    Ed: Thanks for the link! I'll go this nonsense again if you find another as entertaining.

    Some of us haven't seen this type of ranting before. How about you let us soak up the ray of sunshine and happiness? :-)

    As for editing, they did an excellent job at fixing the dope I submitted about the Sandisk USB drive debacle. Go Eds!

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