{"id":299,"date":"2008-07-02T23:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T23:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=299"},"modified":"2008-07-02T23:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T23:47:00","slug":"299","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think this is probably the most mind-blowingly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.programeter.com\/\">stupid and bad thing<\/a> I&#8217;ve seen for a while.<\/p>\n<p>There is no automated metric on earth that can get even a vague approximation of the value of a piece of programming. My colleague, yesterday, solved a fiendish long-troubling bug, by removing <span>one character<\/span> of faulty indentation from a 2000 line spaghetti routine. One change, one character and a comment. How would the system assess the &#8220;productivity&#8221; of that?<\/p>\n<p>If SDI means anything, it&#8217;s a rejection of the entire mindset that believes in the creation of, and use of, software in institutional control and measurement of employees. Bleaarrghhhh!<\/p>\n<p>Update : someone from the company came back at me after I twitted (good for him, respect, obviously) &#8230; but I went into <a href=\"http:\/\/getsatisfaction.com\/programeter\/topics\/http_www_programeter_com_is_some_kind_of_joke_right\">full rant<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think this is probably the most mind-blowingly stupid and bad thing I&#8217;ve seen for a while. There is no automated metric on earth that can get even a vague approximation of the value of a piece of programming. My colleague, yesterday, solved a fiendish long-troubling bug, by removing one character of faulty indentation from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[353,404],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-programeter","tag-sdi-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}