[lethuel]

Current culture of squeezing every bit of productivity out of programmers is absolute cancer. In many companies practices like scrum actively discourage spending more time on research / refactoring. "Of course you can spend some time on this task! Also you have the other five to complete. And the sprint ends in two weeks".

Imagine Einstein was told "oh, you have such a nice idea about relativity, let's time frame it to 2 days, and then get back to reviewing patents"

[imbnwa]

Its insane how popular it is, when it comes to the decline of the true hacker/engineer, to blame individuals for systemtic changes in process and environment