alt Hacker NewsThese discussions increasingly remind me of gamers discussing various strategies in WoW or similar. Purportedly working strategies found by trial and error and discussed in a language that is only intelligible to the in-group (because no one else is interested).
We are entering a new era of gamification of programming, where the power users force their imaginary strategies on innocent people by selling them to the equally clueless and gaming-addicted management.
Replies
i tend to share your view. but then your comment describes a lot of previous cycles of enterprise software selling. it’s just that this time is reaching a little uncomfortably into the builder’s /developer’s traditional areas of influence/control/workflow. how devs feel now is probably how others (ex csr, qa, sre) felt in the past when their managers pushed whatever tooling/practice was becoming popular or sine qua non in previous “waves”.
There's quite a lot science that goes into WoW strategizing at this point.
People are using their thinking caps and modelling data.
Tuning the JVM, compiler optimizations, design patterns, agile methodologies, seo , are just a few things that come to mind
> Purportedly working strategies found by trial and error and discussed in a language that is only intelligible to the in-group
This really does sound like Computer Science since it's very beginnings.
The only difference is that now it's a much more popular field, and not restricted to a few nerds sharing tips over e-mail or bbs.