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Deming was the man. But being a systems thinker, and seeing the corporate idiocy (just watch his talks on management), I suspect he knew that a system cannot be transformed, it can be destroyed and rebuilt. Japan was a great opportunity fro him to rebuild a system the right way.

"The art of simplicity" and "Dev toys" and "Microsoft most valuable professional"

True but why? "Plea for lean software" by wirth https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf explains how complexity sells. Playground IT attempts to explain the "psychology" of that complexity: https://bitslap.it/blog/posts/playground-it.html

There's a talk I uploaded on youtube where Rich Hickey explains some history of clojure. https://youtu.be/nD-QHbRWcoM

banks are particularly low imagination, high control places. The "resources" they hire are particularly generic, safe and fungible/expendable. By definition, such "resources" are playing with themselves, creating "frameworks" and "platforms". The low imagination management of banks cannot understand that they got "resources" they filtered for and results accordingly. https://bitslap.it/blog/posts/playground-it.html

"Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research."

- Carl Jung

WTF are you talking about? "crisis", it's such western cliche. You actually start living after 40.

Platform capitalism: this was uploaded on "podtail.com" platform Enshittification: Can you scroll this shit through to skip ads?

Just watch his videos on "clean code" or "Scribes Oath". You can't make this shit up. He literally glorifies tribal rituals. Calls devs - "his tribe" etc... Such zealous simpletons are a plenty in our pop culture driven industry.

This is a good example of "Rebellious Teenagers of IT". Nerds rebel against their stupid daddy manager and push their own processes. They write "clean code". Still playing with them selves, but now as "good" developers that followed "recommended clean practices" - the rituals of clean nerd tribe. https://bitslap.it/blog/posts/it-craftsman.html#rebellious-t...

I get it. But my point is that clojure is not snobbish about pure functional programming. It's angle is data centricity. Very different to haskell in that respect and type centricity of it.

The advantage of clojure is in data centricity. It is not about shifting mind to recursion from looping. Clojure has a 'for' which is it's list comprehension loop. The actual fun of clojure: https://bitslap.it/blog/posts/fun-of-clojure.html

Linux desktops are way more useable and way less buggy for quite a while now

Most jobs out there are straight up boring. Due to the way simplistifi'er managers are structuring the system. It selects for accountable people, not responsible people. Even if the domain has something interesting in it. The filtering starts with HR functionary demanding a love letter to enter the managers' dollhouse.

https://bitslap.it/blog/posts/playground-it.html#part-i---ma...

There is a sentiment in the post that "poor" hiring managers have no other way to weed out the incompetent. At the same time it says that HR functionaries are not even looking at CVs... It is not a contradiction though, such idiocy is natural for those systems. But the sentiment about "poor" hiring managers is a miss. The system is by design: https://bitslap.it/blog/posts/playground-it.html#part-i---ma...

Rebellious Teenagers of IT - still playing with themselves, but now in tribes of "professionals"

Imagineering is what nerds like to do in their clean playgrounds without involving messy users. It's a thing.

that's a silly typo. Thanks for caching it. I am using Fred Brooks' term "pure thought-stuff"

I don't like it myself. But I want to differentiate "simplify" as in remove non essential complexity, from solving the problem naively, simplistically. Which is what a simple minded go-getter manager does. Lots of accidental complexity from nerd toys gets added in the process. So pretty much the opposite of simplifying.

P.S. Do you mind if I add your comment to the post?

Hi yold_. It is made heads-down anti-social work by simple minded managers. They create infantilized environment that self-select for devs that don't like to talk to people.

Talking to people is trusted to "big boys" from business. You've listed the roles. Business big boys will sell complexity to clients through IT woo wooo. More complexity - more revenue.

I guess the most useful understanding from my post is that it is by design. It didn't "just" happen. Corporations bread them and make it a norm. This proliferates an understanding of a dev as an infantile that plays with himself.

Thank you for showing me I probably didn't articulate that understanding well enough.

thank you kindly - fixed

"The Ape In the Corner Office" Is also one of those eye openers.

Hi Terreta. Yes, it feels like it stops abruptly. Plenty directions for elaboration. But weeds started to get thick. I am thinking separate satellite posts will do better.

Thank you poloitics. Fixed "them selves" error. Any more mistakes standout?

It is a Human->Resource game, as many other commenters pointed out. It has little to do with being a good dev. Play them! there's a support site for this: dev-assist.com

all you need to do is to learn how to program this terminal so that you can program on it.