Yes, I think it does. In the case at hand here, we're looking at one party creating value and another making use of it without providing anything in return.
If you have a counter-argument, please go ahead and state it.
I understand "that's what I was taught," but I don't find it at all persuasive. I certainly don't see how that's the kind of exchange of value that can reasonably construed to bind the developer to any responsibility of unpaid labour for the benefit of the user.
@clacke Then somebody found one from 1650. So it's probably (but not necessarily) newer than "this generation of kids is destroying civilisation", but appears to older than "are tattoos becoming mainstream?"
It's good to keep the timelines in approximate order :)
@revk I'll never forget an SQL optimisation moment near the start of my career.
There was a report whose query would run for well over 11 hours (this was in 1997 or so), and was usually interrupted by the DBMS being shutdown for the nightly backups.
One day, I took a closer look at the query, and realised two tables had been joined in the wrong order. Fixed that, and it completed in under 5 minutes.
@neil@drandrewv2 Depends on the café. I still miss Caffiends, a 24-hour place, where 3am was a reliable time to find students desperately writing their assignments for the 9am deadline. Pajamas weren't unusual.
On a related note, some of the best motorcycling advice I've gotten is never to ride beyond 90% of your ability. That seems like good business advice, too.
@dee Now you put it that way, I think that's what fascists want for everybody: for them to be afraid to be themselves. We're "just" the group they're starting with.
@mjausson@SecurityWriter Right? The worst part is that it was a mystery to them. To this day, I don't know whether they failed at pattern-recognition, or whether it never occurred to them that we would learn the pattern.
@SecurityWriter I had no idea that "layoff season" was an established phrase.
However, I do remember when Citigroup laid of 10% of their IT workforce in September without notice, to improve the bottom line for the annual investor report. Three years running.
And how, for the two more years I was with the company, senior management noted with concern that morale in the IT department plummeted alarmingly in August.
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