Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

As Mikhail Gorvachev wrote in his book "Perestroika" the big problem with the Soviet Union was its mentality: "More work=better" "More materials used=better" "More time spent=better" "More effort applied=better"

People cared more about "looking" hard working, that about the actual product itself.

He learned looking at capitalist that naturals were rewarded (people that make some things "effortless"). In communism talented were bad seen.

"Less work doing the same= better"

If something did what it had to do with half the work it was considered twice better, not twice bad.

Look at this, I was in a big company that valued programming work per lines of code written!!. This is like valuing the worth of a plane by weight in direct proportion.If my code works with ten time less code,its really much better.



Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: