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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: 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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  • (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.

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

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

      Point noted - thanks.

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    • (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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  • (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!