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I deleted my account after many years when X recently made the Chronological Feed setting ephemeral, defaulting back to the Algorithmic Feed each time the page is refreshed.

No away I'm going to let that level of outrage-baiting garbage even so much as flash before my eyes.

I don’t disagree, nor do I have any solution but man, 1-2 years is a LONG time when you start a new gig and can tell within 1-2 weeks that it’s not a good fit.

If it’s okay with you, I’m going to very intentionally do my initial learning on mainstream hardware before moving on to anything beyond that.

I’m trying to pivot my career from web/business app dev entirely into embedded, despite the steep learning curve, many new frameworks and tool chains, because I now have a full-time infinitely patient tutor, and I dare say it’s off to a pretty good start so far.

But he started it …

Do your teams use the teams feature in Teams?

I could watch it once a year, indefinitely.

Do you (or does anyone) see possible value in a CI tool that just launches your script directly?

It seems like if you

> 2. Don't have logic in your workflows. Workflows should be dumb and simple (KISS) and they should call your scripts.

then you’re basically working against or despite the CI tool, and at that point maybe someone should build a better or more suitable CI tool.

Steve Martin said that after 60 years of playing, he considered himself to be a pretty good banjo player. But then he saw Eric Clapton play guitar and thought “This guy’s not funny at all!”

I’m beyond peeved by the inability to get any sort of price guarantee from these places more than 3 months in advance.

I’ve even offered to pay for several years in advance at their “current” rate, and they won’t accept it.

"How about YOU justify my existence BEFORE making the decision to hire me in the first place?" - I've never quite said but have come close.

(Sorry, you struck a nerve with your BigCo depiction. :-)

Yeah I've worked at enough places that could generate vastly more software feature ideas than they could ever implement, to find the "justify your own existence"-type places utterly insufferable. And I absolutely refuse to suffer them and everyone else should too.

Hoo boy some of these (anti) patterns really resonate.

I want to name names - I could cross-reference some of these with specific company names that you've heard of, but I shan't.

I'll definitely keep this website in my hip pocket to privately throw at teams going forward, as needed.

I’ve had this same thought, although less well-articulated:

AI is supposedly going to obviate the need for white collar workers, and the best all the CEOs can come up with is the exact current status quo minus the white collar workers?

Embedded software development.

After 18 years of business and web application development, I want to intentionally seek out work that is constrained by physical reality.

Me: “Why are we switching from NoNameCMS to Salesforce?”

Savvy Manager: “NoNameCMS often won’t take our support calls, but if Salesforce goes down it’s in the WSJ the next day.”

I like to think of “warning” as something to alert on statistically, e.g. incorrect password attempt rate jumps from 0.4% of login attempts to 99%.

LLMann amnesia?

“Americas doesn’t correct problems - we over-correct.”

Bill Maher

Being forced to compromise your domain model. Yes the product has improved this greatly in recent years but it’s still inadequate IMO.

Fluent syntax can at first seem like the product has achieved persistence ignorance nirvana but then you have to compromise a little here, compromise a little there, until some point, if you’re still thinking critically about the design, you realize that you’re writing your app in Entity Framework as much as you are writing it in C#, as I mentioned.

Passing around a large mutable blob (dbcontext) which, if not managed with the utmost discipline by your dev team, can make it necessary to understand what large swaths of the code do before you can adequately understand what any small part of the code does.

The difference between the ratio of people returning their carts at Wal-mart vs at the Natural Foods store where I live is substantial.

Grass might hold the cart in place, but most abandoned carts get dropped off in places where the wind can catch them and blow them into cars.

EF hits you in the face right at the start with the massive convenience that it provides. And then the paper cuts start adding up, and adding up, and adding up.

Although the EF team has made huge progress towards keeping your entities persistence-unaware, it's still not enough and eventually you wind up building your project in Entity Framework just as much as in C#.

“SITUATION: There are 15 competing standards.”

Juuuussssst give me dumb pass-through display and audio mirroring from my phone.

I don’t see how that link could support your contention any less.

If you can’t change your company, change your company.

Yo dawg, I heard you like xml … so I made you an xml-based language to turn xml into other xml!

Is the friction of hiring and firing responsible for all of Europe’s economic stagnation? Only some of it? If only some, how are you quantifying the proportion?

Perennial “What Armenians should know about life in America (2014)” from days of HN past https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22777745

And which today must be read via internet archive

https://web.archive.org/web/20200404172130/https://likewise....

Basically explaining to Armenians at home why their relatives who moved to America don’t send better remittances back home despite their $X pay rate. Here’s why …