• brlemworld@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Software Engineers should get royalties for their code like actors do. I’d be retired already.

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      16 days ago

      most cursed take of the day. This is a terrible system that turns workers in self-entrepreneurs, where most struggle and a few get a lot of money.

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        16 days ago

        nah. as a dev myself, if any of my foss projects gave me anything but grief I would be ahead.

        I’ll gladly take royalties over needy upper management and demanding PMs. not to mention the absolute donkeys that are the customers.

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          15 days ago

          “As a dev myself…”

          “Users of my code = donkeys”

          Logically, where the fuck does this end other than you sucking your own dick? Just write code for yourself and shut up.

          Keep in kind I’m using logic to ask a dev…

          Why WOULD ANYONE need to hear your opinion if you think EVERYONE else is a donkey?

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            15 days ago

            heeehawee heeeehaawwww!

            luckily for you, I’m fluent in jackass.

            what’s it matter to you what my opinion is?

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      15 days ago

      They’re fat and lazy enough already. Last thing we need is an SE thinking they sit on IP and the rest of us can fuck off. You write code that others defined and you work WITHIN a system. You are the equivalent of a translator who speaks Spanish. You don’t work magic. Everyone else works in systems we are all asked to consider the business logic beyond simple tasks so fuck off with your snowflakes. I work with so many engineering VPs that you just come off as “special”. You are white gloves special people who demand handling that no one else requests, and for why? Why do you deserve special IP concerns?

      Seriously I am tired of engineers being gate keepers while the other two legs of the stool keep this shit together.

      Seriously engineers get your shit together as we are all making a product together and you don’t own any more shit then a pm and that’s saying something.