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snoopsnoppon Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?

This actually really common eventually every devops guy in over their heads becomes a human deadman’s switch.

snoopsnoppon Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?

I don’t mean to be the morality police, but that seems illegal.

snoopsnoppon Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny

Because capitalism is a lie, political power decides which tech companies get big, not innovation.

snoopsnoppon Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny

What do you mean by that? I don’t understand.

snoopsnoppon Things I learned from teaching

When I would go to my Professor’s office hours they would be swamped but about a half dozen students just trying to get passing grades. I feel like colleges now self-select for laziness. The less work you actually have to do, the less opportunity to fail.

snoopsnoppon Amazon's humanoid robots will eventually cost only $3 per hour to operate

It’s an interesting question, I guess it depends if they can raise enough money.

snoopsnoppon Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in

It’s interesting because free speech has become very expensive speech for Musk.

snoopsnoppon How Hackerman would create an image just by typing 0 and 1 – deep dive into GIF

Someone needs to release bit for bit break downs of common image formats. It’s always fun to draw by hand.

snoopsnoppon How does Shazam work? (2022)

I don’t want to be combative, but this has simply never worked for me. No matter what I do Shazam has produced incorrect results. I wonder if I’m the only one.

snoopsnoppon Cory Doctorow: Freeing Ourselves from the Clutches of Big Tech

The government cured an incurable disease in a year and gave away its cure to its biggest enemies for free and people are still acting like the government is bad and oppressive. It really shuts down good dialogue when “the government” is demonized beyond all reason.

snoopsnoppon Toxic comments are associated with reduced volunteer activity on Wikipedia

I find this happens with a lot of forums. The most critically minded users eventually get exasperated and become toxic after repeated bans to “kamikaze” accounts.

snoopsnoppon Reel Inequality: Charting the Vanishing Middle Class of Movies

I feel like consumer choice has kinda gone too far with movies, people never cross genres because they never have to go along with something they don’t like.

snoopsnoppon Django 5.0

Totally agree, but is Ember truly the most stable? This is pretty much my only criteria for JS at this point.

snoopsnoppon Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%

Because I have experience in the industry. Where is anyone getting any of this info? Don’t just believe these guys they are fake accounts repeating marketing info.

snoopsnoppon Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%

When I was junior I used to buy this explanation, but 9,000 developers is probably more then are actually working on huge projects like Linux or .NET it’s approx 100 times more developers then you’d ever reasonably hire. It’s just for financial reasons it’s cheap to double up of devs instead of giving raises

snoopsnoppon I worked in Amazon HR and was disgusted at what I was seeing with PIP plans

If they did this even once how is that not criminal fraud? Proformance isn’t subjective, if an employee lies and says my proformance is bad that’s a crime.