{"id":230847,"date":"2024-11-13T18:24:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T10:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=230847"},"modified":"2024-11-13T18:24:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T10:24:42","slug":"mental-health-in-software-engineering-hacker-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=230847","title":{"rendered":"Mental health in software engineering | Hacker News"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In almost 30 years of software engineering, I came to the conclusion years ago that most deadlines were entirely arbitrary. The business isn&#8217;t going to fail if you slip a week, or frequently even six months and if it does its probably not the fault of engineering unless its so dysfunctional as to repeatably blow through its own delivery estimates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=40001150\">Mental health in software engineering | Hacker News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In almost 30 years of software engineering, I came to the conclusion years ago that most deadlines were entirely arbitrary. The business isn&#8217;t going to fail if you slip a week, or frequently even six months and if it does its probably not the fault of engineering unless its so dysfunctional as to repeatably blow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230848,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230847\/revisions\/230848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}