liquidpele

> The proprietary tech "island" issue is a non-trival concern when you need to hire new software engineers from industry/outside and ramp-up time with some of these systems may be 6-months or even greater

Went to a GCP event once, expected it to be like the aws one… it was 100% marketing and the Wi-Fi didn’t work. So yea, they drop the ball a LOT when trying to interface with the developer community.

Moreso factories than plantations.

> It is relatively rare for Gen X and Gen Y workers to have stayed with one employer for decades, as many of their parents may have done.

I’ve seen more people take them in between jobs than during, which works fine within the job hopping expectations that companies have created.

Have you considered eating the rich?

Investors were probably “found” via friends of daddy.

Yea, really only useful imho for proxy functions that then just pass the arguments along to something that DOES properly type every arg.

Because just like with taxes, people want the benefits of large systems but balk at paying for it themselves even when the payment is just time/annoyance.

Oh please. This is entirely about making things fair by cutting down on people, cheating the tax code. As much as people hate taxes, they are essential for a society to function… it is essentially your way of buying into the privilege of living in a nice society.

YES… my god those were annoying.

It actually uses some color for the grays. There are settings to force pure black and white but it’ll look more like a fax.

It won’t move back. These issues exist for reasons, and avoiding lawsuits is already a consideration taken. At the end of the day, they embellish to an extreme because management in the customer companies are usually buying “we used X” prestige and there’s very little accountability in management for such mistakes.

So… basically preventable if you have upper management with some balls that can enforce actual work and call out bullshit. Aka a unicorn ;)

Don’t forget: Hiring remote contractors to “speed up” things. Dev will slow to 50% and meetings will double as you attempt unsuccessfully to teach them how to code.

Or how about fix your terrible parental system to actually work? It forces me to log my kid into the Chromebook every time with my own account first. Yes I’ve tried to fix it. No google doesn’t have any support and there are plenty of threads about it in their support groups.

Wtf… 100 people and you’re still doing 18 hour days? Y’all are past the point of needing the switch to sustainability.

They use their stolen money to buy very nice mattresses.

> framing mods as power-hungry jerks who are anti-democracy

He’s not wrong. There’s something about giving community power to people with the free time and willingness to do that work for free.

For a company, it should be configured to be centralized. That’s why they think that way , it’s what makes sense.

What’s the point of asking for source if you do t use that to build it for the store yourself? People could just submit modified source right?

> because senior management make their bones sniffing out bullshit even when they might not personally have all the details.

Ahaha, good one. They couldn’t smell shit on their own shoes.

I don’t think it’s even a token gesture. Someone (the author) just cared enough to do the paperwork and set up the meetings + it couldn’t be monetized in a meaningful way. Most companies are mundane boring places.

Market shrank as it matured and software generally took over most workloads.

> contractor, who might be brilliant at programming

I have yet to meet one of those unicorns.

For the same reason solitaire is an online app with ads now.

They also put “you’re a lucky customer” offer cards offering Amazon gift cards with the items. We emailed a hotmail account to get a $15 Amazon card for filling out a review. Then they offered an extra $10 to make it 5 star.