Humans write software. Humans are inherently fallible, therefore the software they code is likewise fallible. Properly motivating a software engineer with pain or pay will not cause the engineer to become infallible. Removing greed from the equation might help, but like fallibility, it is in our nature and not likely to change.
I hate to say it, but it is evidenced by Mashable posts on Facebook that nobody really cares whether they are attached to a comment by full name or not. People cuss, call each other names, and generally act like the trolls I'm sure they are in other places.
A quarter of a billion dollars to rural utilities so Joe Blow in North Dakota can have fibre to the curb, but congress can't manage to pass an unemployment extension that will allow the CHILDREN of over 3 million jobless Americans to EAT tonight. Near term, long term, I don't care... this is NOT where we need to be spending what little funds we have. I'm pretty sure Joe Blow would rather feed his kids tonight and dial up to check his Farmville, than have fibre and starve. Will it create jobs? Sure. How much longer are we going to look 10 years into the future when we have the problem RIGHT NOW?
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Humans write software. Humans are inherently fallible, therefore the software they code is likewise fallible. Properly motivating a software engineer with pain or pay will not cause the engineer to become infallible. Removing greed from the equation might help, but like fallibility, it is in our nature and not likely to change.
I hate to say it, but it is evidenced by Mashable posts on Facebook that nobody really cares whether they are attached to a comment by full name or not. People cuss, call each other names, and generally act like the trolls I'm sure they are in other places.
A quarter of a billion dollars to rural utilities so Joe Blow in North Dakota can have fibre to the curb, but congress can't manage to pass an unemployment extension that will allow the CHILDREN of over 3 million jobless Americans to EAT tonight. Near term, long term, I don't care... this is NOT where we need to be spending what little funds we have. I'm pretty sure Joe Blow would rather feed his kids tonight and dial up to check his Farmville, than have fibre and starve. Will it create jobs? Sure. How much longer are we going to look 10 years into the future when we have the problem RIGHT NOW?
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