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Great idea! I wonder why nobody has ever thought about that before! You must be the first! A modern day Prometheus!

The highlighted part about the fact that it takes 30 minutes to make a change, and FIVE WEEKS to get sign-off is spot on. I fucking hate bureaucracy. But you know what happens if you don't take the FIVE WEEKS to get sign-off? Nothing.

Our most esteemed economic mind wrote that businesses exist solely to maximize profit for shareholders. So that is the right business model for our economic system.

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/archives/a-friedman-doctr...

Whether you believe that should be our economic system is another matter altogether.

This attitude is why I insist on having my developers manage at least one small project before moving to a senior role.

Pretty much. My mom's soon-to-be-former partner had been an alcoholic previous to their relationship and was clean when they met. She got him some whisky for Christmas and figured it would be fine if he drank a little, because its never been a problem for her. Big mistake.

People are very very different in their drug tolerances and really shouldn't give advice to other people, because they are not the same.

Very true! I bet the RRIA is going to get right on filing a suit against that officer.

Hey that's my portfolio! 100 products written by 100 people in 100 different ways. 100 people left and I'm the one left trying to unfuck 100 products.

Nah sounds like a seasoned architect. The first thing I had to unlearn was that I had any say over my architecture.

Maybe the problem with software architects is that they only exist in bureaucratically hellish companies, and exist as a scapegoat for bad management decisions?

Or maybe I'm just jaded.

MBAs are the equivalent of butter bars in the military. You get a lot of fresh faced BCOM -> MBA grads who know absolutely nothing but doctrine and are put in a position of power.

CompSci -> Work in industry -> MBA usually produces the best managers.