{"id":12573,"date":"2024-11-11T10:46:26","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T15:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=12573"},"modified":"2024-11-11T10:46:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T15:46:26","slug":"profoundly-ignorant-and-proud-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=12573","title":{"rendered":"Profoundly Ignorant And Proud Of It"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nIt’s easy to be snarky about management\u2014especially the suits\u2014and Irreal has certainly indulged itself often. In case you think such snark is unwarranted, I offer this sad example<\/a> for your consideration.\n<\/p>\n

\nIt demonstrates everything that can go wrong when people with no technical skills nevertheless feel inclined\u2014and entitled\u2014to make decisions that aren’t really any of their business and for which they are eminently unqualified. Take a look at their description of Emacs:\n<\/p>\n

\n

\n\u201cAn old fashioned and slow text editor created by Canonical for use with the Ubuntu operating system\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nThere’s not a single part of that description that’s correct. You Vim guys can stop laughing now. Here’s the description of Vim:\n<\/p>\n

\n

\n\u201cDeveloped by CentOS, an editor with a steep learning curve\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nI guess that’s a slightly better description than the one for Emacs in that “with a steep learning curve” might be said to be accurate. On the other hand, these same suits are happy to embrace Neovim so, again, they have no idea what they’re talking about.\n<\/p>\n

\nI can’t imagine working for a company that would presume to tell developers what editor they should use let along one that justifies their decisions with such a complete lack of knowledge of what they’re talking about.\n<\/p>\n

\nAll I can say is that if you are working for this company or one like it you should start looking for other employment forthwith. Even if your preferred editor is on the approved list, management’s attitude and presumption will eventually reach out to bite you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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