• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    But that’s good for their credit score? That’s what I gathered from reading US forums.

    I’m not sure how that stuff works over there, but apparently, the more you spend other people’s money, the more money they give you because it’s good for the economy, and then they reposess your home. Or something like that.
    I did economy in university, but I argued a lot with my teachers.

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    22 days ago

    The bubble is growing. Unfortunately it looks like there are layoffs at both ends. I fear we have a long way to go.

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      23 days ago

      Not to be argumentative, but tech debt is not about money. It is a term that describes all of the accumulated shortcuts and ‘gotta get it dones’ that devs/engineers had to use to get stuff out on schedule. And the amount of work that it will take to correct those and bring them in line with best practice.

      The only place dollars and cents come into play is in how much it will cost to make up that tech debt, or more usually - to ignore it. It is not directly related.

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          23 days ago

          Sorry man, this is a common industry term and trying to change it to fit your description is not going to work when we all use that term every day to mean a very specific thing.

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          I like this because it implies the company pays for tech debt in any intelligent way. Instead of just letting things break and fixing them as you go.

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          Obviously technical debt has a monetary cost, that’s not the problem with what you posted. That doesn’t make all monetary costs technical debt.

          This is just regular old debt, nothing ‘technical’ about it.