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    7 months ago

    That’s not what I said or even remotely implied.

    If you want a good back end that isn’t bloated you can’t use cheap contractors or junior engineers - you need someone who knows what they’re doing.

    It’s a fight I’m constantly fighting at work. They finally dropped all the super cheap contractors that were trying to hard code a list of 20 identical entries that differed only by a single field. The contractors who thought the peak of architectural design was decomposition of any method more than 5 lines long into confusingly named functions that had an additional 10 layers of decomposition to them. The cheap contractors who thought that documentation was a waste of time and that the code was “self documenting”.

    These contractors weren’t paid to care - I don’t blame them for phoning it in. But if you want a system to work well and be cheap to run you pay your engineers well or inspire such devotion that FOSS is possible.

    But the fact is the overwhelming majority of large, optimized and successful FOSS is funded by megacorps

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      7 months ago

      The cheap contractors who thought that documentation was a waste of time and that the code was “self documenting”.

      Unfortunately, there are expensive engineers who think the same 😦 I don’t know how they pass technical interviews or probationary periods.

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        7 months ago

        Definitely - hiring isn’t easy.

        But you’ll never get value for money from engineers who don’t care, and you have a 0% chance of a cheap contractor caring.

        Again - I don’t blame them. They shouldn’t care. The company clearly doesn’t respect them.

        But it’s a false economy.

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          7 months ago

          Again - I don’t blame them. They shouldn’t care. The company clearly doesn’t respect them.

          True. Some people aren’t paid enough to care 👍

          But it’s a false economy.

          Is that a typo or a term I don’t know?

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            7 months ago

            Not a typo - a false economy is a decision that saves money in the short term but wastes more than it saves in the long term.

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              7 months ago

              Thank you, learned something new!

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        7 months ago

        optimizing backend services is expensive because good engineers are expensive

        um acktually you can’t build services faster by hiring tons of people 🤓🤓

        Reading comprehension: you lack it.