sporadicism

> Let them eat lentils

Average home price in the US is 400k and mortgage rates are over 7%.

> Plenty of people find meaning in work.

Even then though, most of that work is objectively not meaningful.

XP was godawful for years security- and stability-wise until the release of SP2.

So it's not that they can't, it's that they won't. Seems crazy to me.

>What would you do to make it more effective?

I'd ask companies who have managed to get the process down to 2-3 weeks what they're doing, and then do that. It sounds like you're saying they don't actually care to, though.

The person I responded to said that filling a role in 90 days would be "relatively quick" so you've already improved theoretical hiring efficiency by up to 50%.

But it still doesn't sound like a very effective process typed out like this.

What an absolutely insane way to do business. Everybody is out here trying to squeeze every last drop of efficiency out of software teams to the point of shipping garbage. Meanwhile managers, executives, and hr are operating under the belief that taking literal months to move "candidates through the pipeline" is eminently reasonable.

> I can tell, usually within a few minutes of meeting them, who’s really into social media.

Same for me, except it's people who don't read books.

You're right. I'll rephrase: Even if engineers were uniquely capable in this regard it still wouldn't equip them to identify solutions, let alone solve problems, in fields where they lack domain expertise.

Asian superpowers feature so heavily in the genre that it's a cliche. Also Ballard was British.

Even if engineers were uniquely capable in this regard it still wouldn't equip them to solve problems in fields where they lack domain expertise.

Yes, that is the argument from the video I was referencing.

I didn't find any of the arguments for optimism compelling, even if I wanted to agree with the talk's message.

Free software is about the worst example, as it has inadvertently built the technology that has, more than any other, concentrated corporate power and debased the profession.