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Tired of technical windmills

Toma on January 25, 2019

Let me start with my story. I have been involved in programming for 12 or more years now - doing all kinds of applications - Desktop, Web, Enterpri...
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Frank Puffer • Edited

This reminds me to a post I wrote a few weeks ago and where I ask a similar question:

Complex organizations seem to have a general tendency to develop subsystems that work against their initial goals.

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Toma

I found in my experience that the systems are placed for the machine to actually work at all ( the developer to understand what the software should do from the BA, the QA, what is expected and to test the edge cases). The problem with the big organizations is that rarely a person joins in because of a cause and acts properly and knows how, without straight forward instructions. It is kind of contradiction embedded in the human psychology and motivation.

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jan paul

Pal, no code ist ever really finish. No Code ist sacred. I tempt to Interpret described circumstances as a way to improve.

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Toma

You are absolutely right. No code is ever final. I haven't reached that point yet, but I think that, to continue the technical fire in me, I need to reach (with the help of the software) some goal, some purpose outside of technology itself.