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On Sat, 09 Nov 2024 17:18:53 -0300, Wolfgang Agnes <wagnes@jemoni.to> wrote: >Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> writes:

On 09.11.2024 um 09:50 Uhr Wolfgang Agnes wrote:

Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> writes:

On 09.11.2024 um 09:13 Uhr Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

"The Mozilla Foundation is reorganizing teams to increase agility
and impact as we accelerate our work to ensure a more open and
equitable technical future for us all.

Maybe they should drop all the agile stuff.

Lol---you are a non-believer! What's wrong with the agile stuff?

It is mostly management BS and buzzwords, I haven't seen a real outcome
of such ideas yet.

Same here. I view the situation as a major sign of failure. It seems
the whole world is on the same boat, though. I don't know of any
company that has not bought into all this nonsense---they may exist (and
I hope they do), but surely I don't know the routine of every company
out there. ``Software engineering'' in the universities are also going
in the same direction. In fact, one thing I observe in the universities
is that the academics in ``software engineering'' are actually the >manager-types who are not (at the same time) programmers, which is a
terrible sign. I hope I'm not offending anyone, but it's really how I
think.
If something is very difficult and people find it hard to accept that it
is difficult, then they make these programs of management and education >thinking that they can make progress little by little. It's a certain >Religion of Progress or something like that.
But not everything can be made right---little by little---simply because
one wants it. To advance things, sometimes you really need to have the
right insight. There are hard things to do in this life.
We also live a certain overconfidence in science. There are very few >scientists doing relevant work, but there's a widespread belief that
science (and technology) will always solve everything---it's always just
a matter of time; someone will figure it out. Ask people and you will >see---almost nobody understands anything about quantum computing or >artificial intelligence, but nearly everyone thinks that it's a matter
of a short time and all the quantum computing will be here for the next >revolution. And I need say nothing about artificial intelligence
because everyone is well-aware about the all the hype.
On the other hand, though, I totally understand the fears: academics are >fearful of not having anything to say and managers either invent
something whatever or they have a nervous breakdown out of fear of
losing their jobs. And some really do. They have a deep sense of >incapacity: it seems they never find a way to put their lives to good
use. It's a very sorry situation.

if academia were one big happy family always in agreement with everything,
then science cannot fail but to always improve everyone's lives and after-
life in passing from this earthly domain...so it's a win-win for everyone; everyone should be agile and fit into the program...join the winning team!

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