Monthly Shaarli
October, 2021
A miracle occurred this week. Everyone I have talked to about it, myself included, is shocked that it happened.
Software Engineering is really frustrating because there’s basically never a “right” answer and so most decisions come down to “whatever the senior engineer wants.”
I did find that a disproportionally big amount of these bugs was reported by players using Linux to play. I started to investigate, and my findings did surprise me.
Software distributions are often volunteer-run and represent the interests of the users; in a sense they are a kind of union of users.
Asking about your attempted solution rather than your actual problem.
There might be a way of doing complex multi-participant tasks that is better than what's being done currently, but the incentives for each participant are not aligned.