KDE devs & other hobbyist programmers, beware: some "captains of industry" see you as a threat to their business models

Posted Jan 27, 2024 8:59 UTC (Sat) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: KDE devs & other hobbyist programmers, beware: some "captains of industry" see you as a threat to their business models by kleptog
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I sort of had one of those (it's very rare) last night.

"Something has messed up in our team, and tomorrow will break if we don't put it right".

Don't get me wrong, it's a great place to work, and there is a STRONG management recognition that our practices are broken. As far as I can tell, this particular incident was a bugfix that seemed to work, but then made matters worse. So we just reverted it.

But when a large amount of your work is "we just need tomorrow to happen!", then the odd thing like this does come along :-) I'm desperately trying to reduce technical debt, but when we have a huge database implemented in Excel VBA, there are limits ...

Chers,
Wol