>>... on the same day:
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>>http://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/
>>https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/21/i_want_to_buy_a_coffee_with_an_app_how_hard_can_it_be/
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>>Coincidence? I THINK NOT !!!
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>>;-)
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>I've been doing this for more years than some of you have been alive.
>For some reason, developers seem to think that the bell shaped curve that applies to accountants, engineers, etc. doesn't apply to us.
>It does.

The Gauss's curve of normal distribution. At least this guy's name is simple - guess what happened with Jan Łukasiewicz and Károly Simonyi.

>That means if we found all the brilliant, competent programmers out there, we'd find an equal number of dumb, incompetents. Even more insidiously, the mass is somewhere in the middle, just as is the mass of every other group.
>That means that there are an awful lot of mediocre people doing this work.
>Developers seem to whine more about their incompetent colleagues than do members of other professions.
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>I never found that to be a reason to whine.
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>On the contrary - with that kind of competition - how could I lose?

By using things they wrote. And paying for it with time or money.

But most of the stuff the guys complain about aren't about programmers' incompetence, it's the economics of it. The guys holding the purse strings never understood what they are dealing with, and made all sorts of wrong decisions. So the crap piled up, and is now too complex to clean up.