It's either very funny or very depressing to watch executives trip over themselves to prove who has the worst understanding of what software development actually entails.

[cazabon@mindly.social]

@cloudhop

Indeed. I have more than once been talking to someone, and when they found out what I did, they said something along the lines of "I could have been a software developer; I type pretty fast".

Always cocksure, overconfident young white men, now that I think of it.

When a CEO says this, I think it's time to sell the stock

[troi@techhub.social]

RE: https://equestria.social/@cloudhop/116077882659405785

@cloudhop Didn't we move away from waterfall design because detailed specification and anticipating intent were too difficult?

Asking for a friend.

[qhstone@mstdn.social]

@cloudhop “Serial entrepreneur“ is just another term for “con-artist”.

[earthshine@masto.hackers.town]

@cloudhop Both.

[tessarakt@mastodon.social]

@JorisMeys @cloudhop and the next day they'll forget.

[tk@f.kawa-kun.com]

@cloudhop

[hi_cial@donphan.social]

@cloudhop imagine being like 'now buildings are no longer constrained by the speed at which we mill wood'

like ok uh that
really isnt the major factor in what takes up the time of this lengthy engineering and construction process tho

[phreakmonkey@infosec.exchange]

@cloudhop yeah and imagine the medical breakthroughs we'll get when surgeons are no longer constrained by scalpel speed!!

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[ali@leftist.network]

@cloudhop

The rich has zero idea about the labour AND the product. For them, everything is just commodity. Maybe because they have zero taste.

Which might explain why most of the luxury goods are so ugly.

[bri7@social.treehouse.systems]

@cloudhop if programming is mostly typing, can we maybe consider designing better programming languages?

[cloudhop@equestria.social]

@bri7 Ironically i've been trying to help my friend design a new programming language but nobody seems to think that better type systems are worth bothering with, they just look at the syntax.

[bri7@social.treehouse.systems]

@cloudhop in
my humble opinion: better type systems, yes;

more type annotations and type syntax: no

[bri7@social.treehouse.systems]

@cloudhop more types does not lead to better types

[cloudhop@equestria.social]

@bri7 See, it's hard to explain to people that you need a much more complex and powerful type system in order to *reduce* type annotations precisely because of unsolved problems surrounding inference algorithms (which is precisely what broke our first attempt). For some reason most people seem to think "better types" means "more type annotations" and I'm not sure how to explain the difference.

[elexia@catcatnya.com]

@cloudhop what does he... how...

[elexia@catcatnya.com]

@jacel @cloudhop @xgranade if you have money you can afford to fail so many times

[timwardcam@c.im]

@geospacedman @cloudhop I have often wished that I could restrict my hiring of software engineers to people who could actually touch type (they're more likely to write things like comments and documentation) but sadly that would have limited the available pool. We're talking about the days when typing lessons in schools were only offered to girls, and most software engineers were boys.

[timwardcam@c.im]

@julesbl @cloudhop That was done for a while. Programmers wrote by hand onto coding forms which "punch girls" typed onto punched cards.

[brouhaha@mastodon.social]

@julesbl @cloudhop
That was actually common practice in the 1960s and early-mid 1970s. The people who did the typing were called "keypunch operators". Programmers would hand-print their programs on coding forms.
It may have been the case that most programmers did not have typing skills, but that was not the primary force driving that method of computer usage, and it certainly did not make programming faster.

[timwardcam@c.im]

@Lacey @cloudhop Not me. I was taught to touch type by a professional typing teacher (my mother).