quality is expensive. if not even apple can afford it, what can we expect from the rest?
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This article seems like something I should read, but I'm not sure if I want to. As someone with parents and inlaws who are in their early to mid 70s and quite worried about losing them, I'm not sure if I'm ready to read this.
Does anyone have any tips on how to deal with the pre-loss anxiety?
be thankful for what you've already had, remember it, cherish it?
this is a privilege.
the closest to this most of us ever get, is the 'sense' of ownership evoked by competent managers.
notice that it is a 'sense of' ownership. not real ownership;
anything that I create by myself, on my own, is not work; it's a hobby, it's fun, like really good games.
by this point I even think of work as all the other things I must do to afford rent, food, electric bills, chores, etc.
livelielife commented on The Problem with Music (1993) thebaffler.com/salvos/the... · Posted by u/brudgers
Sorry, but creating and engineering are on two different axes IMHO. Engineering is about using math and science to achieve things, kind of "the way". Creating is about "the goal". You can create beautiful things by just trying random stuff...
For me, the vast majority of software is not engineering.
I agree with software not being engineering.
but I disagree that engineering is just execution. I disagree even harder that you can create something by throwing random stuff,, you may well find something cool like that but I think creation does require more of a clear intent than random throwing and finding as if by chance.
livelielife commented on The Problem with Music (1993) thebaffler.com/salvos/the... · Posted by u/brudgers
The issue is that producers have no bar at all for the role, and the role is not well defined, unlike software engineers that typically have a 4 year degree, 2 year degree, or at the very least a code camp, before being hired. Would you hire someone for software engineering who had no engineering training or experience just because they can talk lucidly and in detail about what software they like?
Maybe a better software analogy here would be to compare producers to product managers. Great PMs are truly gold, but the PM role’s technical requirements are nebulous, and there are plenty of PMs who don’t know how to write code, and don’t know how to craft a good product, and don’t know how to communicate with customers effectively, essentially having no skills required for the job, but able to talk convincingly to enough of the right people to get hired and keep their jobs.
> unlike software engineers that typically have a 4 year degree, 2 year degree...
they do NOW. Back when a lot of us started getting involved with this, most 'engineers' had physics, engineering, mathematics, and other various backgrounds because software engineering degrees were too freaking new.
In the near-future (10 5? years? possibly sooner?) kids are gonna graduate with specialized PM degrees having gone to highschool thinking about being "product manager" when they grow up. When I was in highscool i wanted to be a Webmaster! now a webmaster is 15 people between desiginers, PMs, backend, frontend, QA, testers, blah blah blha
livelielife commented on The Problem with Music (1993) thebaffler.com/salvos/the... · Posted by u/brudgers
they are talking about the recording industry more than about music; so I suppose I agree?
the recording industry is the problem that music has. But this 'problem' is not limited to music.
disagree, but the consequences I'm imagining are the consequences of loosing money due to not making those kinds of decisions.
the consequences for the decision makers are very different, the incentives which surround them and the consequences they'll face are not what you seem to think they are.