jtrek

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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 13 points 6 months ago

That doesn't really address people betting on horrible things and then making them happen.

Also "it will just go underground" is still kind of a win? The average person isn't going to navigate sketchy underground arrangements, but they'll find a slick website with good SEO.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 31 points 6 months ago

All tools are not equally safe nor should they all be publicly available.

A chainsaw is a tool that you might cause harm with if you use it in stupid ways. We don't give chainsaws out to children. We don't use chainsaws for cutting dinner.

There are human elements to the problem but that's not a big reveal.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I dislike postman. I see job postings that are like "MUST KNOW POSTMAN". Fuck, people should know how to make API requests but postman isn't the only tool for that.

Furthermore, if I'm doing automated tests to run on PR I'm not going to use a GUI. Pytest or jest or whatever testing library your language has.

I did use Bruno for a while for convenience during local development, though.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 42 points 6 months ago

You guys fell for the ragebait embarrassingly easily

Microsoft should maybe evaluate why so many people read about the alleged horrible AI+Subscription model and went "yeah that sounds like something microsoft would do." Their brand is in the shitter.

Pretty much every decision Microsoft has made for years has been bad. Why not one more?

If someone posted that Valve is moving to a subscription model, much of the response would probably contain "This seems out of character for them"

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't know why someone down voted this.

I've had several friends block off time on their calendar for i-dont-know-what. It was marked as busy and it could've been anything from napping to elden ring. It's their time.

Though I think a lot of people don't use a calendar for their personal life and I can't relate to that level of chaos. I can't remember my plans and everyone's birthdays in my head.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think a lot about how one time we spent s few hours estimating how long a project would take. Management came back and said no, that's too long, we'd need to finish in a month.

Well if that's how long it has to take why not lead with that?

Bunch of idiot empty husks doing cargo-cult "agile"

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 9 points 6 months ago

Seems fair. Was a pretty big fuck up. Might deter others from making similar fuck ups.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 3 points 6 months ago

That was always a bad idea and feeds my mild Cassandra complex.

No government should be relying on private platforms like that.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 16 points 6 months ago

The suits at Microsoft are out of their fucking minds.

Yes. They are stupid and don't deserve their huge paychecks.

They could've done basically nothing. Maybe security updates. And they would've had a decent brand that kept bringing in money. Their leadership is worse than doing nothing. A dog would make a better ceo.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We need more than resignation. We need real punishments.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago

Notably, slack doesn't have this problem. Slack pretty consistently behaved exactly as I expected. You have channels organized by topic. You have private messages that are private. You can have group DMs but don't do that. I guess a problem is some people are kind of stupid and don't see why many permutations of non-discoverable chats are a bad idea. My old CEO, who I would not say is a universally smart man, would always create group DMs and I had to tell him if he wants this chat to be canonical put it in the relevant public channel. "We value transparency" he'd say at meetings, and then bork that up.

I have a couple friends who have only ever used Teams and I don't think they realize just how bad it is.

It's kind of infuriating to me that Microsoft can consistently deliver bad products and not die. If a startup released Teams, no one would use it and they would rightfully fail.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago

I would be more than willing to carry around my own spoon, fork, and more, if it meant less plastic crap everywhere

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