Comment by wakawaka28

Comment by wakawaka28 3 months ago

One man's incompetence is another man's profound skill. OK maybe not actually, but let's just say that some people are quick to apply a label of "incompetent" to people who think a little differently, or who are perhaps only 10% less knowledgeable, or to people they imagine are less knowledgeable.

DavidPiper 3 months ago

> One man's incompetence is another man's profound skill

Only when there's no way to measure the results.

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wakawaka28 3 months ago

Measuring results is notoriously hard in this industry. Any metric can be easily manipulated, and many qualitative aspects of software are not quantifiable. Moreover, the people who get to decide the metrics will tend to choose them in a way that gives an advantage to themselves.

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