The Benefits of Indolence.

The author discusses the issue of software developers going above and beyond to fix problems. He mentions the policy of his software company Zerocracy to refrain from being altruistic and the problems of dealing with legacy code and lack of software libraries. The article presents comments from othe...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 62; no. 11; pp. 10 - 12
Main Author: Bugayenko, Yegor
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Nov2019
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