alt Hacker NewsYes, but can you blame someone for trying when all the gas stations are 1000 miles away? That's the exact situation the devs are put in all the time.
Oh, and the rest of the business doesn't even know what a car or gasoline are!
Yes, but can you blame someone for trying when all the gas stations are 1000 miles away? That's the exact situation the devs are put in all the time.
Oh, and the rest of the business doesn't even know what a car or gasoline are!
this still undersells the developers' intelligence and presses the metaphor a bit too far. if the implication is that the developers are unaware of (or do not have access to) infrastructure capabilities, that's seems like a procedural failure (communication, education, information, etc). i wouldnt expect developers to know everything, but i'd expect them to be curious about how their work will interact with the goal, at large.