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by hitekker 3y ago
Like others said, the good advice here is mixed in with not-so-good advice and maybe even bad advice. I think if he stated his confidence on each point, I can calibrate my trust better. Otherwise, my impression is the author has not questio
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by hitekker 3y ago
Nah, I'm developer and also I don't like paying for things. If anything, the mind fallacy isn't the GP but on the commenters pretending that they love losing money. If we could pay $0 and get everything we want, we would. Eve
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by hitekker 3y ago
Sounds like a lot of excuses. > He certainly isn't representing Microsoft in the bug post Your coworker chose to bring Microsoft into the conversation, he even cited his work as a blocker. Every company I've worked for as a man
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by hitekker 3y ago
See the prior HN post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39777267 Additionally, I recommend this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39788985 and its corresponding tweet https://
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by hitekker 3y ago
The assumption that author didn't talk to a woman sounds pretty knee-jerk to me. Can you explain what you mean? "On the rag" is a semi-common slang for menstruation, but "rag" has way more meanings than just menstru
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by hitekker 3y ago
I feel the same. At least, author has been transparent about the infra-project-gone-off-the-rails vibe, see https://without.boats/blog/a-four-year-plan/ : > For those who don’t know, there was a big debate whet
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by hitekker 3y ago
IIRC, GIMP chose this path. Krita got serious about funding and GIMP didn't. Krita has two straightforward donation pages ( https://krita.org/en/support-us/donations/ or https://fund.krita.org&
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by hitekker 3y ago
Or suggest alternatives to GIMP. The image editor space is an open market, not a fan subreddit.
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by hitekker 3y ago
I'm pretty skeptical of what Sinofsky says. Back in the day, former Microsoft employees called out the differences between what he said and what he did, i.e. "Don't ship the org chart" -> his own org ships the org cha
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by hitekker 3y ago
The GP commented once, politely disagreeing and describing their own experience. Looking over their past comments, I also don't see hostility to the ideals of memory safety or using Rust. Seems like you made a passive-aggressive presum
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by hitekker 3y ago
Internally, pretty messy, lots of burn out. Some of the big names they hired and the products they championed flamed out or became irrelevant. However, they still have decent numbers to show their investors.
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by hitekker 3y ago
Props to the author for writing up the results from his exercise. But I think he should focused on a few controversial ones, and not the rotes ones. Many of the decisions presented are not disagreeable (choosing slack) and some lack framing
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by hitekker 3y ago
> strange company culture where nothing mattered anymore except having a good time with co-workers. You can see how Ex-Mozilla people try to cover up their CEO's bad leadership in these comment threads alone. Apparently the CEO bein
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by hitekker 3y ago
I'd wager forced too. She didn't blog about this in https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/ . Given that the last 3 blogposts are about company changes, the lack of a post about this event smells of resentment.
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by hitekker 3y ago
I initially didn't get that vibe but then I re-read it. Yikes. > Gerv challenged me, infuriated me, impressed me, enraged me, surprised me. He developed a greater ability to work with ambiguity, which impressed me. This is manager-
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by hitekker 3y ago
He parted ways with Autodesk a long time ago but it would have been nice for his former company to acknowledge him https://www.autodesk.com/
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by hitekker 3y ago
If the original comment was funny，I wouldn’t have downvoted. But it’s just low effort, extremely online snark.
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by hitekker 3y ago
Another word for the corruption you speak of is friendship. The key stakeholders and their vendors are friends. They know each other, they get along, they get the product, and like you said, they've built their clout on the know-how of
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by hitekker 3y ago
The GP said the OP misrepresented their benchmarks before. It's good context and the rest of the Reddit thread is also informative. "Lie" is a bit edgey but I think adults should be able to stomach a little sourness instead o
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by hitekker 3y ago
Exclusivity contracts seem pretty common in sports media, streaming, and other fields. I don't know the details but a quick google search turns news like https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/7v7xhp&#x2
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by hitekker 3y ago
The people I've met from chess.com were straightforward and focused on their craft. The product they work on doesn't seem to hurt anyone and I haven't see any exploitation common to tech companies. I heard they don't pay
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by hitekker 3y ago
I enjoyed the link to the language checklist https://www.mcmillen.dev/language_checklist.html
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by hitekker 3y ago
> It turns out that the sqlite documentation has been lying for years and people assumed everything was fine. More like the SQLite docs made an assumption and people, maintainers and users, didn't realize it until later. Why the sud
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by hitekker 3y ago
The GP seems to have a quoted a commenter in the SQLite thread, who not a maintainer or a representative of the community. The actual maintainer wrote: > This bug in prior versions of SQLite was unknown to the developers. If I had known
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by hitekker 3y ago
Hans Reiser was convicted of first degree murder. It was premeditated, not a crime of passion. He ruthlessly planned it and executed the murder of his wife. Only because of a plea deal was he sentenced to a second degree. https:/&#x2F
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by hitekker 3y ago
> his social shortcomings Hans Reiser murdered his wife and tried to hide her body in their backyard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser
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by hitekker 3y ago
> Java might be verbose, but it's well-understood, and it's not actually what slows development. I think you're onto something. Maybe some Java-by-default workplaces lack technically interesting problems that engineers wan
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by hitekker 3y ago
IMO, you and the GP are onto something with the term "celebrity CEO". In Jeff's case, he seems like a celebrity CEO for his employees/developers, who we identify with, though not for his customers, who we are largely not
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by hitekker 3y ago
The hubris of solving social problems with technical solutions is a pipe dream many corporate engineers fall into. I think that's because real social problems, i.e. conflicts, are handled by their managers.
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by hitekker 3y ago
"Sanctioned infidelity" is not a stigma, it's a reality. While a select few may practice as they preach, most would rather a license that enables them to cheat without social consequence. The NYTimes marketed polyamory-as-che

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