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Comment by tfgg

2 years ago

Harry Nyquist isn't exactly an unknown engineer who doesn't have his own achievements, though - not sure why people are saying he would be fired in a modern company!

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ramraj07  2 years ago

He doesn’t have his own achievements?

I have heard of the Nyquist frequency, the nyquist limit, the nyquist sampling rate and the Shannon nyquist theorem.

As far as I know no other individual has had this many “things” named after him.

worik  2 years ago

In the modern company good engineers are not valued.

Engineering excellence is not a prerequisite to business success. Managers know this.

Why else many things any one of us could list from the computing business.

  • progmetaldev  2 years ago

    I agree with you 100%. Management does not have an eye for software that is easy to maintain and continue to make money on 5 or 10 years down the line. Most management is thinking short term, how do I get money in MY pocket right NOW. Who cares how the business does in the long term, they'll jump ship and move on. It is the engineering that often makes a difference for long lived companies, it's just that usually the engineers and/or management isn't around long enough to reap the rewards. I try to balance engineering with product cost (I'm lucky enough where I can see the "numbers"). I try to give more to the clients that pay more, or at least create something that I can reuse in the future, while making sure what I deliver is stable and not a big ball of spaghetti to make the next developer/engineer cry at night.

    • worik  2 years ago

      > ... 5 or 10 years down the line. Most management is thinking short term,

      Woe is us. Five or ten years is not considered short term

      > . I try to give more to the clients that pay more, or at least create something that I can reuse in the future, while making sure what I deliver is stable and not a big ball of spaghetti to make the next developer/engineer cry at night.

      I am not sure about the "...who pay more". As I am currently woefully underpaid I am more sympathetic to that view than once I was, but, I still view myself as a professional, and I act with professional ethics.

      Partly that means speaking up when I see a project going near the rocks. I do not make too much fuss, but I do say it out loud.

      That has cost me plenty. Our industry is full of people who are very good at one thing or another, but do not know their limits.

      Part of my "being professional" is knowing my own limits.

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