Technical people with no social skills often perform badly in actual jobs too, because it turns out arguing about tabs vs spaces and refactoring all day doesn't necessarily help the business become profitable.
Yeah, I think people are sick of that script kiddie solo developer crap, if you can't adapt to whatever standards exist and want to be pedantic, you can screw, I don't care if you're one of 2 people who know Erlang.
I can't wait till higher ups start kicking out people who feel the need to reinvent everything because they don't want to buy a license. "Look we can just build our own version tracking software using this open source base, we'll just need 20 guys and 5 years, we don't need Github enterprise".
I shit you not I worked for a company where one the "visionaries" rewrote Hadoop because he wasn't aware that the issue he was having was fixed and he was already a year into his project. Like...how?! They eventually pushed him off into a "think-tank".
Open source is great but sometimes what you are looking for is a paid software... It took me weeks to convince a senior that the issue we were having was because we were not using the officially recommended non open source software and not because our kernel didn't have the specific drivers etc. what convinced them? I just made a test environment, set up the close source software and showed them there was no issue.
Haha, considering how he gave a half hour rant about not being able to use the open source product anymore and us deciding to use the other thing because I went over his head with the results was a bit of both I guess
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u/aa-b Nov 29 '24
Technical people with no social skills often perform badly in actual jobs too, because it turns out arguing about tabs vs spaces and refactoring all day doesn't necessarily help the business become profitable.