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How is running a bot to change copyright notices a /mistake/? > Full disclosure: I work for MS It is difficult to see the reality distortion field you are in
by bakul 5y ago
How is running a bot to change copyright notices a /mistake/?
> Full disclosure: I work for MS
It is difficult to see the reality distortion field you are in from the inside.
- yawnxyz 5y agoI used to work for MS and... it's still easy to see it from the inside lol
- newjersey 5y agoI don't work at Microsoft but I can confirm. There are so many "suggestions" for Microsoft Teams. I don't know if there exists another company whose employees are more critical of Microsoft Teams than Microsoft. My personal conspiracy theory is Teams would have died long ago if not for strong support from the top.
- tyrrvk 5y agoTeams is garbage, every time I use it I loathe computing in general.
- fault1 5y agoteams seems important strategically for microsoft however, if it truly wants to remain as the standard 'operating system' for enterprises. but yeah, friends of mine who work at github say the worst thing about the acquisition was Teams
- dado3212 5y agowhen $new_repo in $msft_github: echo $standard_license > LICENSE.md Could just be normal practices, and doesn’t check if a license already exists because it’s usually handling non-forked OSS repos. What’s the phrase? “Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence”.
- michaelmrose 5y ago
- dangrossman 5y agoThey forgot that a bot may overwrite the license when they fork a repo. That's different from forgetting to check if a license exists.
- dado3212 5y agoI don’t know why people assume the more money you make the more infallible you are. Trust me that every FAANG engineer has written code with some similar pitfall that seems so obvious from the outside.
- dang 5y agoThis breaks several of the HN guidelines and crosses into personal attack. We ban accounts that post like that, so please don't. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- bakul 5y agoJust pointing out this (reality distortion) is a general phenomenon. Have seen the same in all big companies (& many small). As an employee you want the best for the company and you naturally imbibe the company culture and that is perfectly fine. But there is a line and this is something one has to watch out for as an employee. As an example, seeing any critical comment from outside as an attack on the company. It is good that an employee explained how this particular event happened and that is to their credit.
- hatware 5y agoI respectfully, and vehemently disagree. Informing someone that they may be drinking too much of their company's Kool-Aid, without knowing what is in it, is a moral obligation. Despicable that you present this as a bannable offense.
- dang 5y agoSorry, but garden-variety internet comments and cheap personal attacks don't rise to the noble level of moral obligation. The comment plainly broke the site rules. That's not allowed here. If people have noble duties to fulfill, they can do that without breaking the rules. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- bakul 5y agoI too don't think there is any "moral obligation" involved but I did feel it was perfectly fine to point out what I did. I quoted their "I work for MS" to provide the context for my comment, nothing more.