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by veverkap 10mo ago
If he kept his comments within the Zig community and didn't go all over social media denigrating GH employees, you'd be right.
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by veverkap 10mo ago
He hid the comments he made and apologized to the Zig community for his behavior. He never apologized to the people he harmed (the 'losers' at GitHub in this context).
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by veverkap 10mo ago
> I do feel bad for hurting your feelings but I also strongly believe that you should not be proud of working for Microsoft, and particularly on GitHub for the last 5 years. I truly am sorry but you need to be called out. Crocodile tears
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by veverkap 11mo ago
I've found that AI is decent at this.
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by veverkap 11mo ago
They should have called it Atlas :)
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by veverkap 11mo ago
Wild.
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by veverkap 11mo ago
It depends a lot on the circumstance.
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by veverkap 11mo ago
Big companies oftentimes have cultures and leadership that lead to bad code.
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by veverkap 11mo ago
> If the foundation is built on sand then that needs to be fixed. Except this is the system working as designed. Leadership 1000% wants to do things as fast and as cheap as possible.
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by veverkap 11mo ago
Then you've been fortunate to work at places that respect engineering.
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by veverkap 11mo ago
I think it's probably a bit of both. A good senior engineer may pick up a task and look at the system, seeing hacks duct taped together with kite string, and have the choice between "doing it right" (aka rewrite/refactor
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by veverkap 11mo ago
This is really neat - does webscript.io not still exist?
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by veverkap 11mo ago
Only Xzibit can do that.
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by veverkap 11mo ago
He also called employees "losers"
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by veverkap 11mo ago
If you only knew...
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by veverkap 11mo ago
If you've worked in a large company, you know that the product reflects the priorities of the company so much more than the people who work there. Leadership states the priority and the employees do what they're told.
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by veverkap 11mo ago
> You should also consider the point of view of anyone working on github and being paid by microsoft but who actually does care. That would be easily 90% of GitHub.
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by veverkap 11mo ago
All of them? Every single one of their employees?
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by veverkap 11mo ago
"rookies" is an edit - he originally said "losers"
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by veverkap 11mo ago
Keep up the great work!
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by veverkap 11mo ago
According to Zig's financials https://ziglang.org/news/2025-financials/ , Andrew himself makes more money than a few staff engineers I know there.
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by veverkap 11mo ago
It is actually. "I also strongly believe that you should not be proud of working for Microsoft, and particularly on GitHub for the last 5 years. I truly am sorry but you need to be called out." https://hachyderm.io&#x2F
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by veverkap 11mo ago
I think the MSFT ownership was pushing it along as well.
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by veverkap 11mo ago
This is totally cool! I will note that there are some Norfolk England things showing in Norfolk Virginia.
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by veverkap 11mo ago
Have you compared any other factors? I find that my most consistent factor for a-fib is dehydration.
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by veverkap 1y ago
The website is now throwing a certificate error unfortunately.
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by veverkap 1y ago
This is shockingly accurate - are you a Hubber? :)
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by veverkap 2y ago
So no way to get rid of the AI portion and just have it be speakers and a camera that I wear on my face? Darn it
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by veverkap 2y ago
Everyone wants to be a greenfield developer - even if they don't realize they are in a brown field.
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by veverkap 2y ago
This. So much this. > Being able to navigate and reverse engineer undocumented legacy code in a non-modern stack is a skill set in and of itself. And I find that it's a pretty rare skill to find.

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