Warning: semi-rant follows. May induce terminal boredom. Personal philosophy
of the kind I normally don't indulge in. Consult your doctor before
reading...
Alan,
I think you're kidding (?) but indulge me for a moment.
Let me pose a question: how much do you want to make? No, this isn't a Tony
Robbins thing -- but presumably the answer is "more". (Kind of like the
landowner who said, "I don't want to own ALL the land -- just the land next
to mine...")
Well, I agree. I want us all to earn more -- and I want to stop the
exploitation of other people while we're at it. This won't come as
ground-shaking news but the internet has the potential to democratize
intellectual labor such as programming. We don't have to look to sweatshops
in the Philippines to see gross injustice in wages. I will spare everyone
the social gospel stuff, but I'm very serious about this. Talk to a single
mom making $7.00 an hour, etc.
But how do we do this? We can either find ourselves a comfortable little
niche and feather our own nest or we can work to create a new system. We
can't just say to people, "Give us more money because we want it." We can't
even say, "Give us more money because it's the right thing to do." I think
we have to approach it as "Give us more money because it will save you money
overall." And we have to be able to back this up.
The present system of programming was designed as intellectual gamesmanship.
It's horribly inefficient and fails mostly. But for some of us, it provides
a danged good living, so the only people who might have the ability to
really change the system --us -- aren't exactly motivated to do so. But I
think we can do better. I think by creating systems that reliably produce
what the customer wants at better than market prices, we can create a system
where everyone wins -- including the single mom or the Filipino programmer.
$120/hr you mentioned? May I suggest that we should all set our sights MUCH
higher -- and that to do that we have to be able to deliver. Hence the
architecting and Fusedoc and all the rest of it. If we don't do it, it may
get done by someone else, but think of the opportunity that we would have
squandered...
-----Original Message-----
From: McCollough, Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 3:17 PM
To: Fusebox
Subject: RE: Multiple app_globals includes?
Well, that's cuz you want to use those fifty-cent per day Filipino workers,
ain't it? C'mon, yer gonna push all our salaries down. Hire some decent
$120/hr Made in the USA talent, okay, Hal?
Alan McCollough
Web Programmer
Allaire Certified ColdFusion Developer
Alaska Native Medical Center
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hal Helms [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 2:43 AM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: RE: Multiple app_globals includes?
>
> The problem with cflocating from circuit to circuit, from my POV, is that
> circuit app writers have to know too much about what's going on in other
> circuits. ....
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