Comment by jeroenhd | Hacker News Reader

Comment by jeroenhd | Hacker News Reader

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I wonder if devs on the Edge team gets some kind of sadistic pleasure out of ruining Edge. It used to be good for a sweet, short few months, but it's beyond saving now. There's no way the devs behind the Edge UX still believe they're improving the browser.

I can imagine getting sort of a thrill out of suggesting something stupid like "let's steal ALL OF CHROME'S BROWSING HISTORY, then CLOSE CHROME, and OPEN EDGE and see if the user doesn't notice!" because _surely_ upper management would never sign off on that, but the day after you find out they still did. What other crazy shit can you think of? At work you roleplay as some kind of evil warlock, put all of your life's frustrations into the "switch to Edge or we'll murder your dog" screens, and go home with a big sack of cash to watch Netflix on your Macbook.

They should pull the BOFH of the edge team. For the greater good of all windows users.

Who's their PFY, I wonder?

I sincerely doubt it's the devs coming up with these ideas and pitching them to management.

I don't work for microsoft, but I and everyone else knows that that is the kind of shit you'll be working on (who suggested it is irrelevant) long before you'd even do an interview with them.

Microsoft employees are certified assholes, and they know it.

He’s saying that developers are simply given a list of tasks to implement and their decision making authority stops after “how do i implement this ticket”

The role “product manager” is what makes the product decisions like we’re describing.

I know. I'm saying they already knew those kinds of decisions would be made long before they even got the job. Which is why I said it is irrelevant who makes the decision.

The devs are just as guilty as the assholes who made those decisions, because Microsoft has been making those kinds of decisions for decades.

These devs can't even hide behind the "just following orders" excuse, because as I've already said multiple times, they knew long before they got the job, that that is the kind of stuff they would be working on.

I got moved into a 'growth' department in one job and that was enough for me to put my feelers out and tender my resignation. All the work in the pipeline was about pulling the rug under from customers, increasing prices, and not adding value but removing it from general availability and paywalling it. It just felt wrong with me and what was important to me at the time.

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