alcasa

@alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The UK’s controversial Online Safety Bill finally becomes law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point they should just consider disconnecting the UK from the wider internet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was using the N900 when it came out and at that point Android was in no way superior to whatever Nokia was doing. Their main misstep was choosing Windows Phone and shipping the N9 as a dead-on-arrival product. Nonetheless the UX was pretty ahead of its time and we could have had a real Qt based Linux phone OS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Maemo and Meego were so good

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is Becoming a Band-Aid over Bad, Broken Tech Industry Design Choices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like most things degrade as a matter of scope-creep, while trying to implement features that are actually complex and non-trivial.

  Take the unholy mess of modern Microsoft Office. MS Office might have been a good tool for a single purpose back in the 80s, but the addition of multiple generation/layers of features that have been halfway abandoned but kept for compatibilitys sake, make any more complex task non-trivial. There are multiple approaches for implementing templating MS Word, none of which are really good. MS Macros have been great… if you are trying to get arbitrary code execution on Windows machines. And collaboretive editing features include halfway abandoned sharing features and a half-baked Web Version of Office 365.

  As a matter of fact I don’t believe this is purely out of corporate greed, but rather a lack of scope limitation during design. People don’t ask if they should, if they simply can do. We shouldn’t have macros inside of Text Documents, there should be another tool for that. We shouldn’t have SQL queries pulling into Excel Worksheets. We shouldn’t use Excel as a database, but people had to change names of biological genes to avoid these being autoformatted in Excel.

  But as a matter of fact, in general one is limited to working with the tools one knows, so convincing someone to use the correct tool for a job will always be harder than just delivering additional features, that we know will make the overall product worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO Nadella's compensation drops... to $48M — CEO to employee pay ratio hits 250 to 1⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Guess he has only been working 250x as hard as the other employees

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IBM CEO in damage control mode after AI job loss comments⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Reducing human oversight and intervention in HR will definitely not lead to problems down the road.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm a professional.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Just tell the pilot to fly faster and relativity should handle the rest

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨T-testing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What paper is that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The scales fall from my eyes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbf in most IT companies nobody cares about certs that are not on some form mandatory. A company caring about certs might be a negative signal to their ability to hire effectively for IT roles

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you agree?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows Server is rather common in large enterprise software. All the stuff you pray you never have to interface with

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X is working on ID verification, what’s next?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like the fediverse would be better off without a lot of current X users

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gourmet Programmer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I never knew I needed API fanfiction

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse now well past 12 Million total daily users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Vorwärts immer, rückwärts nimmer!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨His wish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If they can talk they can pay rent