Bullshit Has Dominated the Tech Industry

Post by tough » Tue, Feb 21, 2023, 12:08 PM UTC

jiggawatts wrote: post #96

tough wrote: post #87

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Why should here the good guy bend over microsoft lawyers? Use the open source version

Nobody needs to copy the code verbatim anyway. The essential part is the algorithm (or the "approach" to the problem), not some sort of specific C++ wizardry or a huge library. The correct solution can be thrown together in a couple of weekends, it's not something that has to be imported into the Windows Terminal codebase as-is.

Post by jimbo9991 » Wed, Feb 22, 2023, 1:36 PM UTC

somsak2 wrote: post #52

JohnFen wrote: post #19

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> A lot of the projects that person is talking about ended up being pretty good a year after their launch Right. His point was that these things are being released before they're fully baked. That's a problem, and one that is much more common now.

I just don't see how this is a big deal, if you have a high bar for quality then don't be an early adopter / buy something on the day it is released. You can always wait and see how something develops, the outcome is no different to you but the company benefits significantly by having feedback from real users for that entire time.

Post by willywanker » Fri, Feb 24, 2023, 6:01 AM UTC

bbor wrote: post #13

paulpauper wrote: post #3

Well, then maybe the problem is that, from an economic point of view, it is unsustainable to make decent software. However, when we analyze the increase in productivity compared to the increase in wages, we see that, for decades, the former has grown at a much faster pace than the latter. Currently, this gap is almost 50%. Some of this can be explained by employer sponsored healthcare and other benefits for employees…

Technically yes, the working class can become capitalists by just saving their money. Practically, I don’t think I need to explain why that’s a dishonest and rude suggestion, at best. Just because anyone can become a shareholder in a company that squeezes its employees dry for profit doesn’t mean that that company isn’t a weapon in the class war. From Wikipedia: Federal Reserve data indicates that as of Q4 2021, the…

Post by willywanker » Fri, Feb 24, 2023, 6:05 AM UTC

morpheos137 wrote: post #83

darthrupert wrote: post #73

Of all the things we are bringing back from the past, why does communist propaganda have to be one of them? Why do people, smart people! keep making almost the exactly same mistakes? Modern socialists have clearly studied history, but how are they able to interpret it like this?

What if the only viable futures are communism or collapse? Consider as capitalism grows in complexity the grasp of the invisible hand grows weaker until it loses its grip. Does the world really need a new iPhone every year when people can hardly afford rent? Does making monopoly aspiring app for dog walking (Wag) to enrich a few sophomoric founders or defraud a few more gullible investors really constitute efficient…

Post by yencabulator » Mon, Feb 27, 2023, 9:11 PM UTC

vba616 wrote: post #48

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #29

"In 2019, the company released an entirely new version of its terminal for Windows 10, promising a better performance. However, user Casey Muratori was not convinced, claiming that the performance was still far from what could have been done without much effort. To prove his point, Casey developed in just a few days an open source prototype that performed 200 times better than Microsoft's new terminal [32]." "In the…

You can, anyone can, write all your programs with the mindset that you are given X amount of memory, and you use it as a cache or buffer like they did back when computers had 64K or whatever. It would solve a lot of what I see as the problems of modern software. For so many years, people have pursued the false vision of a programming environment where resources can be assumed to be infinite. The problem is, no matter…