so, deficient programming practices *are* at issue. E.g, a good coder knows that nothing should be hardcoded like that when it comes to anything a business might want to change - like a name, date, location, telephone number, business hours. This lack of knowledge about how a business operates - a lack of senior-level perspective iyam - emanates from the very organizational work structures determined, by and large, by capitalist production. however, being a bit of a weberian here, I'm gonna argue that some of them have to do with the division of labor that isn't necessarily *only* the product of capitalist production.
What I'm saying is that the deficiency *still* tends to originate in market competition. but that discussion is getting too arcane for this list.
At 01:43 PM 1/21/2011, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Wojtek S" <wsoko52 at gmail.com>
>
>In sum, the problem lies not that much with deficient programming skills,
>but with the fact that these skills often take the back seat to marketing
>and marketing gimmicks. Who cares if we produce crap as long as that crap
>sells and the management (and key stockholders) are happy.
>
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>Yes, the clearest example of this is that in many companies I have worked,
>there is never enough time for engineering refinements, but if they decide
>to rebrand, there's always three months to crawl through code and docs and
>make a change from say "Java Messaging Provider" to "Java Message Queue."
>
>When I worked at sun we changed a product name five times. By the fifth
>iteration, it was almost identical to the original name.
>
>Joanna
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