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Sunday, December 02, 2007
  Does your employer's wilful ignorance of software development principles piss you off?


Cut them a little slack, they aren’t out to get you:
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
—Grey’s Law, via Daring Fireball

If you’re still seething, you ought to know that Mobile Commons is hiring. We have real products being used by real customers, and handle high transaction volumes in Ruby. In other words, we make practical magic.

Care to join us?
  10:59 PM

Comments on “Does your employer's wilful ignorance of software development principles piss you off?”:
dunno about pissing anyone off -- in 20 years i've probably only had 2 employers who ever gave a crap about either quality or sound software engineering...So after a while you kinda become numb:)
# posted by Blogger jerome : 1:54 PM
 
Ouch... I'm someone behind in reading your blog, so I only read this now. The two links to "real product" and "real customers" are less than... awe inspiring, I should say.
# posted by Blogger Marcel : 6:15 PM
 
Marcel:

It appears we just got ourselves a real webmaster who redid the site without worrying about "backwards compatibility" :-)

The links have been updated, thanks for the catch!
# posted by Blogger Reginald Braithwaite : 6:21 PM
 
Wow, fast reply :)

Of course, I only re-read it now (I was refreshing the page to see if the comment made it past moderation) and I saw a typo.. I am *somewhat* behind. I hate typos :(
# posted by Blogger Marcel : 6:24 PM
 
Ah, working with such a man would be great =)
Alas, I'm so far far away from you & countries have borders, you know =(
# posted by Blogger jartur : 10:44 PM
 




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