Software unrationalized

[paulhope]

Over a year ago I wrote this post showing how and why Lukacs' predictions for labor under capitalism fall short in the case of software engineering.

This article, which sort of confirms the point, just found its way to my inbox from our very-very-recently hired Director of Business development, who will be my boss for part of my time. It's about

Comments

[laurent_atl]

This is pretty interesting. Will have to read it next time I am waiting on a big piece of code to compile. Luc Boltanski wrote a book about a decade ago where he deals with some of these issues:
http://www.amazon.com/New-Spirit-Capitalism-Luc-Boltanski/dp/1859845541

[paulhope]

Wow. That book looks really great. I totally need to get my hands on it.

What do you code?

[laurent_atl]

depending on the day i work on a deductive database or on retail forecasting applications.