The Definition of Garbage
The views and opinions expressed here are my own and don’t necessarily represent positions, strategies, or opinions of Backstop Solutions Group. Recently we released episode 3 of the Software Apprenticeship Podcast but had to pull it back for re-editing because of some problems with how developers talk to each other. Developers are not kind to ANY code. Even our own. Especially our own. Sitting next to a dev while he or she discusses the code they are working on can be a shocking experience. Words like “Crap,” “Junk”, “Garbage” and many worse are used often. A lot of this type of talk was on episode 3 and when someone at Backstop (who’s job it is to protect us from ourselves and comments taken out of context) heard it they asked us to edit the podcast to take out some of the more offensive comments. This is why episode 3 sometimes fades into music and then comes back mid-conversation. Sorry about that. I don’t know where I first heard the defin...