samir, actually the xkcd top hat guyHow many professional programmers are working on pointless and/or actively harmful products?
Give me your best guess.
(If you vote, please boost to diversify the results. It’s polite.)
0–25%
25–50%
50–75%
75–100%
Poll ended at .
liber@samir
Conflating pointless and harmful? Yeah, no vote.
Also, "pointless" is so damn subjective. Prima facie, everything I'm not using and I'm not interacting with in any way would be pointless. But that would raise the "pointless" percentage to 99.999...%, and also, the world doesn't revolve around one individual.
Then again, excluding ANYTHING that at least SOMEONE uses would drop it to basically 0.
IMHO, this applies perfectly:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/4173-there-are-three-types-of-lies----lies-damn-lies
@liber Right, this is not a measure of whether the software is valuable, but a measure of how a (biased, mostly left-leaning, nerdy) group values the software.