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- Comment on Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds 6 months ago:
I also left after they ordered us back to the office.
The company (mid sized, a few thousand employees) was stagnant for many years and losing employees faster than employing them because of the bad management. Then they fired all the people (around 50) from a specific location that we were working with, very senior and really great, that i learned a lot from. From a team of 15, we were left 3. Then one of the colleagues got promoted to management, the other left, and I was the only one working on that product.
For context, the company had two very similar products, and wanted to migrate users of one to the other. Instead of providing a technical solution, I suppose they decided to simply make the support customers were paying for really awful, so customers wouldn’t renew.
Other than the lack of manpower to maintain the product and also deal with all the customer escalations, it was fine as a workplace… My direct managers understood the situation and made a lot of effort to shield workers from the shitty upper management.
Then at the end of the pandemic, the company got bought by another. And things turned to shit… They fired a lot of people, especially management where they kept only the bootlickers of the new executives. I ended up working on 2 understaffed projects instead of 1 - both the product being replaced, and its replacement. And they made us come back to the office.
So I left.
- Comment on Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds 6 months ago:
I am the opposite, I thrive when I work from home. But it’s important for me to have a dedicated space for it, not in my bedroom, and free from distractions like wife, kids, pets, and neighbors with drills.
My home setup is 10x better than at the office… I have a great desk with lots of space, big awesome monitors, awesome keyboard and mouse with kvms to make switching to my personal PC easier. My coffee is better than any work coffee machine I ever used. My internet is much faster and more reliable.
I shit you not, at the last company I worked they proxied all web traffic through another country thousands of km away. As expected, it worked like shit and was failing constantly. And you couldn’t even access repos like maven central, because they used a proxy autoconfig file with hundreds of rules, which is not supported by any software except browsers.
And there’s also the benefits of having a private office, away from noisy coworkers and prying eyes.
- Comment on Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds 6 months ago:
I agree, being out of office is the best
- Comment on Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds 6 months ago:
I agree, being out of office is the best
- Comment on EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again 6 months ago:
And they already do it on mobile. They are just trying to bring ads to the pc and consoles, just like they do on mobile.
- Comment on EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again 6 months ago:
I’m pretty sure their goal is to bring ads in the same form as the mobile games, not as part of the in-game world. If they can do it on mobile, why shouldn’t they on pc or consoles?
I think this will be an important thing for gamers to unite against, because if there isn’t enough push back, every big studio will do the same.
- Comment on Can I lick it? 6 months ago:
Some can be licked multiple times, but may cause various degrees of pain and suffering.
- Comment on teachings 7 months ago:
My teacher explained as sqrt(poop^2) = abs(poop). Yes, he wrote poop on the blackboard.
- Comment on 96% of US Hospital Websites Share Visitor Data with Google, Meta, Data Brokers, and Other Third Parties, Study Finds 7 months ago:
I was referring to the website. This article goes in a lot more detail about how it works.
I’m pretty sure they are consulting lawyers to see how much data they can sell to third parties without breaking the law.
- Comment on 96% of US Hospital Websites Share Visitor Data with Google, Meta, Data Brokers, and Other Third Parties, Study Finds 7 months ago:
Typically trackers are implemented client side because it’s more convenient. It’s closer to the user, it can collect more data, and there is only one programming language it needs to support, Javascript.
But the disadvantage is that it can be blocked by the users. Data collection and user tracking can also be done on the server side. There are many analytics packages that support it, including Google Analytics. This is much easier to hide from the users. Here is an article I found on the topic.
It’s not hacking because the website developers integrate it willingly.
- Comment on Putin Orders Russian Tech Companies To Somehow Make Competitive Game Console In 3 Months 7 months ago:
It will be named the BlyatStation
- Comment on 96% of US Hospital Websites Share Visitor Data with Google, Meta, Data Brokers, and Other Third Parties, Study Finds 7 months ago:
The bad part is that even if you block everything on the client side with ad/tracker blocking extensions, there’s nothing stopping them from collecting data on the server side.
- Comment on Linux distro for selfhosting server 8 months ago:
If you don’t want to be on the bleeding edge and want a distro with longer support, CentOS Stream isn’t bad. Sure, there was some controversy surrounding it, when Red Hat killed the old CentOS. But it has been serving me pretty well.
- Comment on Which one are you? 8 months ago:
Ah, the neighbor starter kits
- Comment on So glad I'm ditching these fucking idiots 8 months ago:
Give Solid Edge (from Siemens) a try. It has a free for hobby use edition. It’s not perfect, but I’m pretty happy with it, and none of the stupid restrictions of Fusion.
- Comment on EA flop Immortals of Aveum reportedly cost around $125 million, former dev says "a AAA single-player shooter in today's market was a truly awful idea" 9 months ago:
That’s why AAA+ is failing and indie games are getting better than ever. It’s insane how good the tools and engines have gotten. Making games had become much more accessible than ever.
- Comment on EA flop Immortals of Aveum reportedly cost around $125 million, former dev says "a AAA single-player shooter in today's market was a truly awful idea" 9 months ago:
No, AAA+ blockbuster games are dead. The 150 million budget is insane. Spending that much on a game, you end up having to minimize the risks and having to cater to the widest audience possible.
If you split that budget into maybe 2 larger and a few smaller games, you don’t put all your eggs in the same basket. You can take more risk, experiment with new mechanics and ideas. You can target different types of players. You can give a chance to smaller, lesser known writers who might have potential.
- Comment on EA flop Immortals of Aveum reportedly cost around $125 million, former dev says "a AAA single-player shooter in today's market was a truly awful idea" 9 months ago:
Wait, didn’t EA had their in-house engine Frostbite? They botched Mass Effect Andromeda because they moved from UE to frostbite (not the only reason) .
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Because Amazon is shitty with the sellers, the good ones can’t make profit on the platform. All that’s left is the Chinese garbage sold at huge margins, where the seller doesn’t care if it gets returned.
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought 9 months ago:
You mean selling unrepairable beta products of questionable usefulness at insane prices?
- Comment on Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever” 9 months ago:
Not an issue if you don’t have friends.
- Comment on Junior Dev VS Machine Learning 9 months ago:
With all the recent hype around AI, I feel that a lot of people don’t understand how it works and how it is useful. AI is useful at solving certain types of problems that are really difficult using traditional programming, like finding patterns that aren’t obvious to us.
For example, object recognition is about finding patterns in images. Our brains are great at this, but writing a computer program capable of taking pixels and figuring out if the pattern is there is very hard.
Even if AI is sometimes going to misclassify objects, it can still be useful. For example, in a factory you can use AI to find defects in the production line. Even if you don’t get it perfect, going from 100 defects per 1M products to 10 per million is a huge difference and saves the factory a lot of money.
- Comment on What are some common misconceptions about programming that you'd like to debunk? 9 months ago:
When you release something, your work is not done. You have to maintain it, fix bugs, release patches, and probably the worst part, keeping it up to date.
For example, Apple decides to deprecate some API, or decides to switch cpu architecture, or for the millionth time change how app signing works, or add some new security feature that breaks your app. Now you need to make your app work properly on the new platform, switch APIs, all the fun. Or, there’s some critical vulnerability in library you used and customers are deleting your app from their computers (a lot of companies use automated scanners that check against published CVEs). It’s most fun when you learn that the new version that fixes the vulnerability completely breaks compatibility with the old one and now you have to rewrite all the code that used that library.
Also, maintaining open source projects is not fun. It’s a lot of work, in most cases unpaid, thankless, and building a community around a project is really hard.
- Comment on Google Chrome Warning Issued For All Windows Users 9 months ago:
Opera gave up a long time ago when they abandoned Presto. Today it is owned by some Chinese company, and they are just chasing the latest buzzwords, crypto, AI, you name it.
- Comment on Fitbit Clock Fade 10 months ago:
Let’s go back to binary blobs. Everything being xml and json is boring.
- Comment on ‘Don’t Mess With Us’: WebMD Parent Company Demands Return to Office in Bizarre Video 10 months ago:
Return to the office isn’t about medicine, it’s about entitled executives power tripping over the workers. At every medium/large company I worked for, upper management lived in its own bubble completely disconnected from the rest. I can give so many examples of poor decisions made by upper management that had a huge negative impact on the company and especially the workers. But regardless, they never gave a shit about our opinions and feedback. They didn’t even tell us why they made those decisions.
- Comment on Unity bans VLC from Unity Store. 10 months ago:
The C suites have nothing to lose. Best case, they make more money, worst case they get replaced and hired as a C suite by some other company.
- Comment on Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us? 10 months ago:
Not only that. If you buy an app, you are at the mercy of it’s creator. If they decide they want to fill it with ads and tracking, there’s nothing you can do. You can’t rollback updates, you can’t install an older version from the play store. If they decide to remove it from the store, you won’t be able to install it any more.
- Comment on Substack says it will remove Nazi publications from the platform 10 months ago:
I did Nazi that coming.
- Comment on YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems 11 months ago:
The internet is incredibly important to the modern society. Letting private companies only motivated by filling the pockets of the ~old farts~ shareholders run it is a bad idea. It’s time we consider Internet infrastructure like any other type of infrastructure.