You Have to Feel It
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#12For as much as the author may get roasted for stating the obvious, I've often seen this "measure everything" mindset, coming from those you'd think should know better than that.
I've even seen this stupidity in myself sometimes. In a way it's funny how you can get so lost on the numbers that you forget about the thing.
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#13> You have to feel it. The corporate machine does not feel it. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you are dead.
This is why small companies still stand a chance. They can build something that would fail the corpo test of metrics and surveys.
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#14But I feel depressed every time I use Terraform. I see why it is useful, good etc. But I just enjoy it least of all the programming activities.
Pulumi isn't much better. I feel IaC done that way isn't the way we will settle on long term.
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#15Good thought, but corporations don't care, and a whole lot of folks that play the corporate game won't, either. Money will still be made. Careers will still be advanced.
It think it was Theodore Sturgeon that said "90% of everything is crap."
For myself, I enjoy what I do. I write software that I want to use, in a way that makes me feel good.
I have no illusions that I would be allowed to work like this, if I were still in the workforce, though.
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#16> You have to feel it. The corporate machine does not feel it. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you are dead.
Plenty of people work at large corporations and enjoy their work.
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#17But I feel depressed every time I use Terraform. I see why it is useful, good etc. But I just enjoy it least of all the programming activities. Pulumi isn't much better. I feel IaC done that way isn't the way we will settle on long term.
To connect the dots, Mitchell is the creator of terraform. And honestly, I kind of feel the same. I think it points out that even if you "feel" it as the creator, that doesn't mean others will feel the same way, necessarily.
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#18Oh, i thought it was a satirical critique of how arbitrary promotion criteria can be. Turns out someone is seriously claiming that someone else "doesn't not feel the right way" about the work they do, and THAT is their core problem. Ha. Well, at least the author feels that they are feeling the right way, good for them I guess.
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#19But I feel depressed every time I use Terraform. I see why it is useful, good etc. But I just enjoy it least of all the programming activities. Pulumi isn't much better. I feel IaC done that way isn't the way we will settle on long term.
To connect the dots, Mitchell is the creator of terraform. And honestly, I kind of feel the same. I think it points out that even if you "feel" it as the creator, that doesn't mean others will feel the same way, necessarily.
Does my side project provide any hope?
https://peace.mk/blog/checkpoint/
(old blog post, but I'm slow in making progress)
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#20> You have to feel it. The corporate machine does not feel it. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you are dead.
Plenty of people work at large corporations and enjoy their work.
Plenty of people are certifiable