Ask HN: Similar industry to the software industry?

4 points by ionelm 11 years ago | 2 comments

I'm very curious on your opinion on what's the closest industry to software industry (in terms of practices, behaviour, organization, stereotypes etc)

ihatehandles 11 years ago |

I don't know if this qualifies, but the 3D industry which I was pretty involved with for a time comes really close. It is just as "closed", in that they are as sure as developers are that what they are doing is something so awesome they wish everyone knew how awesome it is and should be doing it. And most of them find software development to be a lifeless and colour-less pain, well save for the few among them who can code.

ionelm 11 years ago | |

Very interesting. Thinking about what you said, one could compare the software industry to the marketing industry:

- no accountability - marketing campaign with no effect, same as a bug, a unforeseen flaw

- lots of bullshitting

- scientific methods on deciding what practice is best still at infancy