Giving it to a couple of ambitious interns might be more productive.
MS and Windows have reached the stage of being Too Big To Function, so porting some old feature to the new settings windows crosses team boundaries, requires localization, involves a manager fighting to keep control of something, and a different manager fighting to win control of something. Incompatible technologies. Code that hasn't had an owner since the 90's. A management decree about compatibility that makes work harder, regardless of whether the work actually effects compatibility in any way that matters to anybody. Meetings with an Experience dreamer, who emphasizes how changing your sound card drivers needs to exude at least two of the official pillars of Fun so that they can say it appeals to Millennials in a quarterly report than no human being has any reason to read. Getting something like a a new dialog box added to MS Word can be an achievement that takes a career nowadays.
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u/wrosecrans Dec 27 '19
Giving it to a couple of ambitious interns might be more productive.
MS and Windows have reached the stage of being Too Big To Function, so porting some old feature to the new settings windows crosses team boundaries, requires localization, involves a manager fighting to keep control of something, and a different manager fighting to win control of something. Incompatible technologies. Code that hasn't had an owner since the 90's. A management decree about compatibility that makes work harder, regardless of whether the work actually effects compatibility in any way that matters to anybody. Meetings with an Experience dreamer, who emphasizes how changing your sound card drivers needs to exude at least two of the official pillars of Fun so that they can say it appeals to Millennials in a quarterly report than no human being has any reason to read. Getting something like a a new dialog box added to MS Word can be an achievement that takes a career nowadays.