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@mkwadee Ronnie and Mags have yet to go away.

@GuerillaOntologist IME, all software metrics (in a corporate setting) are viewed that way. Software developers still want to be cowboy coders. Another quote, "I’ve worked in the software industry long enough to know that software engineers are the most socially clueless people on earth. I’ve often heard them debate “the right” metrics to use to track software productivity." This isn't talking about imposition. I've 30 years in software. Ignorance runs rampant.

Retreat from coastlines? Politicians don’t want to talk about it. https://grist.org/climate/retreat-from-coastlines-politicians-dont-want-to-talk-about-it/

Howard Dean Pushes Biden to Oppose Generic Covid-19 Vaccines for Developing Countries https://theintercept.com/2021/04/08/howard-dean-biden-covid-vaccines/

Who's Afraid of Critical Race Theory? - Right-wing censorship efforts are reaching new heights with the push to erase any talk of racism from American classrooms. https://inthesetimes.com/article/critical-race-theory-kimberlé-crenshaw-1619-project

The Movement to End At-Will Employment Is Getting Serious https://inthesetimes.com/article/at-will-just-cause-employment-union-labor-illinois

I know it's not real love, but I always fall in love when Wet Nurse is on the turntable.

@GuerillaOntologist "My advice to [software engineers] is: Always fight metrics. [...] Always, always, always fight a metric that management wishes to impose on you, because while a metric can hurt you [...] it will never help you."

Hard to read this as supporting some metrics. Again, self-experiences, he's obviously only experienced software engineering metrics used in a context of punishment and never in the context of making the job easier. I've seen both.

@GuerillaOntologist I've known people who have been happy working manual labor jobs. There's no doubt being poor sucks, but at some point after basic needs are met, poor is relative. The class view really falls apart, if you view them as happiness ladders.

@GuerillaOntologist The worst thing about both essays is that both authors assume that people want to climb ladders.

@GuerillaOntologist it's always funny to see how people view things relative to their own life experiences. For example, the rant against software metrics in the second essay denies the usefulness of metrics to advance science. Taylorism proved long ago that metrics can be used as a whip, but that doesn't mean that the measurement of processes is evil. The author seems to be in the "trough of disillusionment" in the hype cycle of living in the USA. :-D

Holy shit! Is this the reason organizations hang onto crap code way past the point of maintainability? Why very few ever follow Fred Brooks advice to build one to throw away? Why the rapid prototyping movement usually results in a clusterfuck?

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@CaitlinWaddick Lyx (https://lyx.org) is a great program for creating documents. I've used it on both Windows and Linux. I've never been able to tolerate Word.