The world if cs lecturers write foss programs in their free time

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    1 year ago

    This is such a weird take to be honest… it’s weird to want CS lecturers to work in their free time, it’s weird to expect their applications to be better, and it’s weird because this is something that many lecturers and programmers already do… so I don’t get it, and it feels disrespectful to all of the volunteer foss maintainers?

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    CS lecturers aren’t necessarily good programmers. If people workong at big tech companies would do this in their spare time, now that would be fantastic.

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      1 year ago

      If only everyone in the world would work in their spare time, we’d have flying cars. Let’s go for 7x10hrs a week, it’ll be great.

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      If people working at big companies had spare time, now that would be fantastic

      Source: ex Amazon developer

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    hey I know you’re working 40 hours a week but how about you work 40 more hours a week but for free?

    Hell I firmly believe that there are no developers who write their best code at the end of the week. 30 hours of coding a week should be a hard limit at companies.

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      1 year ago

      and produce tons of excellent, reviewed but useless code on the way.

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        1 year ago

        Solving the Rupert-Compfzkopf problem with non-euclidean endofunctors is not useless 😡

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          Great, now find a project to apply it and collect your participation trophy. :-P

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            Listen, I AM going to work this into a gitlab pipeline somehow now.

            When do I collect my trophy, I need a deadline otherwise I’ll give up.

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    I saw my lecturers code. It was some of the worst code I’ve ever seen. If they’d written it in any company I’ve worked for over the last 20 years they’d have been sacked.

    Most lecturers are more about the theory and computer science, not the practicalities of software engineering.

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      1 year ago

      35 years in the industry. I’ve been helping my kid with their assignments. These profs would be sacked for even the specs they write. Just horrible. And my kid is going to decent school.