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The world if cs lecturers write foss programs in their free time

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[-] Chobbes@lemmy.world 50 points 11 months ago

This is such a weird take to be honest… it’s weird to want CS lecturers to work in their free time, it’s weird to expect their applications to be better, and it’s weird because this is something that many lecturers and programmers already do… so I don’t get it, and it feels disrespectful to all of the volunteer foss maintainers?

[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 11 months ago

CS lecturers aren't necessarily good programmers. If people workong at big tech companies would do this in their spare time, now that would be fantastic.

[-] Maalus@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago

If only everyone in the world would work in their spare time, we'd have flying cars. Let's go for 7x10hrs a week, it'll be great.

[-] Draghetta@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

If people working at big companies had spare time, now that would be fantastic

Source: ex Amazon developer

[-] huginn@feddit.it 30 points 11 months ago

hey I know you're working 40 hours a week but how about you work 40 more hours a week but for free?

Hell I firmly believe that there are no developers who write their best code at the end of the week. 30 hours of coding a week should be a hard limit at companies.

[-] FippleStone@aussie.zone 6 points 11 months ago

The same is true for most professions I feel

[-] Stowaway@midwest.social 4 points 11 months ago

That seems excessive, maybe let's make it 25. :p

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

With all the fuckin meetings we have, we’re lucky to get in 30 hours of coding.

[-] huginn@feddit.it 2 points 11 months ago

I only have about 8 hours of meetings a week and that's as a staff eng. Sounds like your place needs to drop a buncha meetings. Lemme guess: your managers have never been engineers before?

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Other way around. Managers were engineers and want to micromanage implementation details.

[-] mcmoor@bookwormstory.social 1 points 11 months ago

And then you have those overemployed people

[-] blotz@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

Such a shame they only research cs and teach new cs students.

[-] heeplr@feddit.de 10 points 11 months ago

and produce tons of excellent, reviewed but useless code on the way.

[-] tourist@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Solving the Rupert-Compfzkopf problem with non-euclidean endofunctors is not useless 😡

[-] heeplr@feddit.de 3 points 11 months ago

Great, now find a project to apply it and collect your participation trophy. :-P

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago

Listen, I AM going to work this into a gitlab pipeline somehow now.

When do I collect my trophy, I need a deadline otherwise I’ll give up.

[-] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 18 points 11 months ago

I saw my lecturers code. It was some of the worst code I've ever seen. If they'd written it in any company I've worked for over the last 20 years they'd have been sacked.

Most lecturers are more about the theory and computer science, not the practicalities of software engineering.

[-] kometes@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

35 years in the industry. I've been helping my kid with their assignments. These profs would be sacked for even the specs they write. Just horrible. And my kid is going to decent school.

[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

I hate how this image has so much manicured grass lawn.

Just baking in maintenance into the concept.

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