alt Hacker NewsFunny story but in my experience hardware engineers produce some of the worst software of the industry. Of course there must be some hardware engineers out there who do hood software but generally what they build are disasters.
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tormeh • yesterday at 11:30 PM
I bet it's being organized by project rather than product. Conway's law ensures such an org will create code around projects, not products, and that always ends horribly.
jgilias • today at 5:34 AM
I know it’s a typo, but I love the idea of “hood software” lol
Honestly, i do not blame them for that though. The whole eco-system of in C- procedurally bitbang on some registers and read on others, until some circuit that might be there is coerced into doing work - often with faulty prototypes you have to rewire yourself, whos documentation is - non-existant-complete while having deadlines within deadlines. And the project-culture is just "aggregate" a layer, wrap the problem like a pearl in shellacks as the main abstraction.