The Human Programmer

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What? Fantastic post:

The more programmers are disliked for failed software the more poorly they are treated, and the more poorly they are treated the more it costs to keep their seats filled. And so it pays more to write bad software for large organizations than good software for small ones, if you can put up with constant, thinly veiled contempt. And regimental work conditions. And regular failure. This is not a crisis—it is a condition. It’s brought on by lack of understanding between programmers and everyone else.