Hey sounds like there’s some optimization to the government that can be done right there…

Very accurate, why only make boat money when we could make megataght money at the expense se of our customers and reputation?

Sorry I was with you, but I take issue with the work an extra hour to meet a deadline. I did that just this week even.

We have a deadline, we had time for us allto get it done, but one member was doing things his own pace. That’s okay, but he needs it done by this date. I start checking in more and more regularly, he says it’s fine and he’ll get it done. Well it is Friday and it’s due Monday, and he says that he guessed it was harder than it was, and he didn’t have crucial component done. To which I said I’m sorry to do this, but it’s due Monday, let me know how I can help but sounds like you’ll need to work over the weekend.

I’m huge on work life balance, but if you’re slacking at work and dragging down everyone else, damn right I’ll ask you to work late. I’m not a manager so I can’t do reviews, but as a lead it is my job to make sure things get done on time, and if I don’t push one person, the the whole team is at risk when layoff season comes around

Yeah, as a developer who wants to not be homeless, I’ve had to take my fair share of dubious roles that I felt didn’t add anything to humanity. I’ve been disillusioned from college where I thought my tech would help people and humanity, I know what I do.

But, I can be proud that I turned down Meta. I was desperate for a job, and I got to the offer stage. It was a tempting offer, but luckily another job rolled in. Less money, but I knew it was a moment for me. Maybe my code has been less than moral, but at least I know I can draw a hard line there.

Fun fact, I asked about work life balance and the recruiter happily told me “oh it’s great! We have onsite laundry and sleeping pods, and the cafeteria is open all the time!” Great, hard pass. Sounds like something college senior would be excited about. Me, I want to go home to my big bed with my spouse.

Never thought we’d be rooting on Big Porn to help save integrity of the internet, but I’m all for it. They brought us HD, 4K, VR, now let’s go save the rest.

I feel you and that’s where I worked actually for my short time there. In reality, the hotel and third party systems are both ancient. Sure they get rewritten, and things get upgraded, but it moves at a glacial pace because anytime an update happens everyone needs to sign off on it. Even the “API”, last I worked there, was still SOAP if I remember correctly, and while we did our best to make sure what you were booking was correct, we were beholden to the ancient infrastructure below. So it’s not malice, but it is rather hundreds of small tiny issues that propagate and bubble, each of which usually require everyone agreeing on the implementation change, and all result in the customer being pissed at the front desk.

Long story short, when you add a middleman there’s an entire layer of complexity added, and so I recommend skipping that added complexity and booking with the hotel.

That would be the point of the article, yes.

Microsoft doesn’t know how to make software anymore. That’s not an anti-AI thing, or even an anti-microsoft thing, they just truly don’t know.

It’s not a tech company anymore. The people in charge aren’t nerds, they aren’t coders, their business people now. The org is so large and cumbersome that the left hand never knows what the right is doing. How can they possibly make software when you have to go through 42 teams for even the smallest feature request, miles of red tape, approvals, legal, everything. Small startups can build better things because they don’t have all the stupid bureaucracy of big tech, and Microsoft just keeps adding more. “Maybe even more overhead will get us operational!” It’s no wonder to me they’re falling behind, they don’t know how to make things anymore.

I feel like everyone thinks those sites are really great until they get burned badly.

Correct, as I said I worked there. However not going through them also closes you off to massive amounts of business. The alternative is that those rooms go empty and nobody stays there costing the hotels massive amounts of money. Some money is better than none.

Think more Expedia and booking.com, sites that thr hotels have no say over.

I worked Expedia for a while, and there is a complete disconnect between them and hotels. Hotels offer spare availability, we sell it, but customer shows up and the room is gone. Our service showed it but maybe the hotel had already sold it and we were out of date, maybe the room definition wasn’t correct. So the hotel says they can’t do anything, call Expedia. Expedia doesn’t want to give back money so they fuck around with horrible customer service. The customer blames the hotel.

It’s why I never recommend third party booking sites anymore. Book directly with the hotel. Get the loyalty program with the hotel. Yes maybe Expedia saves you 20 bucks a night, but your experience will be guaranteed with the hotel. Expedia can’t make those promises.

You can steal from regular people no problem, but he fucked up and decided to steal from the rich. Straight to jail.

The worst part about electron is that there is no way for it to share resources like a browser. You have to oacjage the whole version together, when really should should have been more like a pwa. Instead you have 10 electron instances, running with 10x the respurce needs.

That can’t be an efficient way to smuggle.

hm this name I heard before, this one I don’t know. I’ll just vote for the same person.

or not vote at all

Hey now, I’ve been producing clean turds for years. Should mean you’re just about ready to eat them right?

A Monty burns style sunblocker seems about on par with what they would do next

Sure but how does that help the business world? Having happier healthier people that stay working age longer so they can take more wages? No! No wage! O ly work!

I’ve definitely noticed that. Deadlines are extreme now, there’s no research, it’s just ship it now. There’s no overhead. In 10 years the business side has taken complete control with no regard for the process, and AI only amplified that.

Seniors like me are being burned out, and the juniors don’t have enough experience to handle what business is throwing now. There will be a reckoning in the field I think as companies lose that experience.

I can hear my dad yelling

CLOSE THE GODDAMN DOOR IM NOT PAYING TO COOL THE OUTSIDE

Ah, childhood.