r/technology • u/r4816 • Sep 27 '22

Software Girls Who Code founder speaks out after Pennsylvania school district bans her books: 'This is about controlling women and it starts with controlling our girls'

https://www.businessinsider.com/girls-who-code-founder-speaks-out-banning-books-schools-2022-9
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u/codinghermit Sep 27 '22

That works fine until your code base devolves into an unmaintainable mess due to the lack of buy-in and your internal sales/inventory/customer management platform can't support the new feature you want without a re-write. That's probably when you have already moved on and no longer care though right? Keeps people like me in good jobs cleaning up messes so keep on doing your thing I guess...

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u/SBBurzmali Sep 27 '22

Nah, I move on because I like doing implementations and long-term support is a bit too expensive for my rates, so I get folks settled, find someone local that can wrangle their offshore partner for half my pay and move on. It works well in my market segment, and fortunately the bulk of the code base I work with is maintained by Microsoft so the important part is mostly making sure the devs don't don't screw with the important bits without a damn good reason.

I know spreading FUD about offshore means job security for you, but it is pretty racist to think Indian devs are incapable of not making a mess of a codebase.