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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Also, it still counts as pushing straight to prod if your PR reviewer gives it a once-over and stamps it with “LGTM”

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

No need to search when you already have someone you wanna pin it on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Look, just because PHP doesn’t have multiple inheritance doesn’t mean you can’t wildly overengineer everything.

 
[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

We also experienced an initial explosion followed by a major drop and then steady growth. It’s healthy growth because it shows we’re keeping genuine daily users to compete with natural user churn.

 

That way, it’ll be deprecated after a year and we can move on

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

The inflated sense of self is an important way to phrase it. I’ve known execs who weren’t excessively self-confident, but I’ve never met one who didn’t massively overestimate how fucked the company would be if they left.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The risk of running a business? It’s not like owning a company makes you responsible for that company’s loans if the business goes under or something.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I think you are correct. I didn’t know the exact numbers but I was aware of general reasoning. The economic forces that push unethical design decisions range from mildly annoying to horrifying depending on which decision you’re talking about. Facebook using A/B testing with neural imaging tech to minimize users’ opportunities to disengage from the platform is probably on the more extreme end. Regardless, I don’t think the decisions being objectively correct when optimizing for the continuation of capitalist firms makes them any less morally onerous.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I have held a vendetta against YouTube Premium for nearly a decade. I will never use it. I don’t give a shit how cheap it is or how many features they take away. I will stop watching YouTube entirely before I pay a single cent for Premium.

You used to be able to lock your phone on iOS and continue listening to YouTube. I always had audio playing, but I was still connected to my environment. They took that away just so they could add it back in as a feature in Premium. Maybe it seems overly petty to be this upset about it 9 years later, but I don’t care. I’m a treat addict and they fucked with the product. I let go of most things when it comes to enshitification because the alternative is to drive yourself mad. But this is a hill I will die on every time forever.

Fuck YouTube Premium.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those of us who work in tech need to have a serious reckoning about our contributions to this sort of dynamic and the sort of social environment it incentivizes us to gravitate towards, maintain, and create.

There also needs to be some discussion of class in tech and how the bull pen tech support grunts are going to have very different incentives from the senior technician making 7 figures on top of mad stock options.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

To the tune of We Didn’t Start The Fire

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most of Adobe’s formats are just gzipped XML

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve heard technical interviews are just as much about seeing how you approach a problem as they are about you knowing the answer beforehand. But apparently seeing what I do and don’t need to google is not included in that sentiment.

 

I will gladly explain TCP as long you don’t want me to go into much detail

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