Possibly related. But I'm not screwing caps onto toothpaste tubes here, I'm engaged in activities that carry a fair bit of interest to me - there's just a bit of a disconnection when it comes to the use of the final product. (I must bother product management again about how the last thing I did is doing among customers, actually.)
That's the most self-consciously elitist thing I've read all week. What about the application needs of non-programmers? And I wonder if the efficiency statistic isn't distorted by the choice-of-application effect anyway: that most working programmers would work better if they were working on something personally interesting, regardless of how elite they are.
If I weren't half-asleep today I'd write a proper response :(
If you can't persuade the most capable people to work on something you want/need, whether by showering them with money, wanting/needing interesting things or whatever other methods are available, then you get the second-best results; this is true of any field of endeavor and is just a fact of life. I don't see how observing that interest can beat money for some people is particularly elitist.
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Date: 2004-07-30 05:49 am (UTC)If I weren't half-asleep today I'd write a proper response :(
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