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rasputnik6502 | 4 years ago | on: Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin

Decision to go into bitcoin was smart and also decision to back off was smart. Musk is the only person who can do or say two contradictory things and both are smart. He really is a genius

rasputnik6502 | 4 years ago | on: Apple employees petition demanding investigation into ‘misogynistic’ new hire

Not exactly lynching, not exactly calling, not exactly women, not exactly worthless. Likely to be abusive or hostile towards women because he did what? Any cases from the past? Or is the book title 'Mein Kampf'?

rasputnik6502 | 4 years ago | on: Apple employees petition demanding investigation into ‘misogynistic’ new hire

Many years ago a big tech company opened a new office in my city and started recruiting developers at my university. They wanted to be fair and treat both sexes equally so they decided on male/female parity (at least 30% women). But on my year (computer science) there were just 3 gals vs 30 guys, but there were groups with even worse ratio. So the company hired all female students they could and then started looking outside. Even hired some girls from biology (qualifications weren't that important) because they had to fill in female positions, so then they could give offers to male programmers. Felt pretty bad, this was certainly one of such programs you mentioned

rasputnik6502 | 4 years ago | on: Apple employees petition demanding investigation into ‘misogynistic’ new hire

Nobody forces them to work, and 'known mysogynist' is just a personal attack without merit. What actions did he take against women in general or any woman in particular to be called a misogynist? Remember, if it's only your personal belief, if you dislike the book and the author of it you're free to look for another workplace. But not free to take actions against someone just because you don't like them.

rasputnik6502 | 4 years ago | on: Apple employees petition demanding investigation into ‘misogynistic’ new hire

Well I'm not interested in working with people who feel entitled to targeting someone and mobbing to destroy them based on opinions and personal beliefs. This is illegal activity imho

rasputnik6502 | 4 years ago | on: Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin

Yep someone has exchanged his Muskcoin into a big pile of real money. Not inrerested obviously in reverse direction of exchange

rasputnik6502 | 4 years ago | on: Apple employees petition demanding investigation into ‘misogynistic’ new hire

Since when personal feelings and opinions should be prosecuted? And who is so entitled to give themselves such right?

rasputnik6502 | 4 years ago | on: The Importance of Humility in Software Development (2020)

My ego is crushed anyway

rasputnik6502 | 4 years ago | on: The Importance of Humility in Software Development (2020)

Skilled programmer has the proficiency and courage to attack the problem and win. There's some boldness coming from knowledge and experience, and i like people showing that. On the other hand an unskilled person will not be able to understand the design, will be afraid to make changes, will get confused and ignore the parts they cant understand, and will not take the responsibility and initiative - they need to be guided all the time. Then i dont care if they're humble or not, there's nothing to be gained.

rasputnik6502 | 4 years ago | on: The Importance of Humility in Software Development (2020)

Most of unskilled programmers i met did not become much better after years. They kinda reached their max and stayed there or got into management. So I wouldn't count on willingness to learn, the capability is the key

rasputnik6502 | 4 years ago | on: The Importance of Humility in Software Development (2020)

You can be humble only when you're competent and you know it. Then you can make a choice. If you barely have the skill to somehow put stuff together so it kinda works then there's no place for such subtleties. So I'd rather have a skilled but showing off programmer than a humble untalented one

rasputnik6502 | 4 years ago | on: eBPF on Windows

The situation gets worse every year with multitude new commanline utilities and scripts being created as part of new frameworks, languages and tools. And then everything gets mixed together to form some unstable, ever changing, inconsistent programming language.

rasputnik6502 | 4 years ago | on: eBPF on Windows

It is the OS from the past and still most people use it on their computers. Because they are still doing things from the desktop. And I suppose they're happy not having to adapt to technology du jour again and again.

rasputnik6502 | 4 years ago | on: eBPF on Windows

I kinda like Windows server, mostly for the stability - both of the runtime and of functionality. Compared to Linux it requires less attention, i can concentrate more on software and less on the system: after two years of not touching i can still find configuration options in more or less same places. With Linux i have to re-learn quite a lot after not paying attention for a while. Missing good ssh/command line but not badly, I don't really need advanced shell scripting.

rasputnik6502 | 4 years ago | on: ServiceNow acquires Lightstep

I've been re-implementing Remedy functionality for a telecom operator around year 2000. They decided to go with custom software because Remedy was horrible. I wonder what kind of horribility it is now, 20 years later. And we still have to use ITSM systems that look and feel almost exactly the same like 20 years ago. How it's possible, the ideas behind these tools are not exactly rocket science, simple ticket tracking with some standardized data structure and relationships - nothing that you couldn't put together in a month. I wonder why companies even buy these tools, probably you could have much better system developed for you and your specific needs for 10% of what it costs to buy certified ITSM system.

rasputnik6502 | 4 years ago | on: ServiceNow acquires Lightstep

Yes, if someone can enlighten me - what is so great about this software, by looking at their product's growth and popularity i was expecting something extraordinary. Then i had to use it and it was pretty boring, unintuitive, unsophisticated CRUD framework for tracking stuff and it wasn't clear at all where is the value it provides over thousands of other applications of such kind.

rasputnik6502 | 4 years ago | on: Elon Musk, master promoter

That's true i haven't seen him give credit to anyone but himself. We can agree here that he's a master of self promotion.

rasputnik6502 | 4 years ago | on: The mortifying ordeal of pairing all day

Yep feels forced like hell, no breathing room. Isn't it enough to be a team of two without holding hands all the time?

rasputnik6502 | 4 years ago | on: Elon Musk, master promoter

We have some uninformed judgment here, don't you think? Btw I have heard enough of Musk talk to know what's on the show. Don't need to listen to it anymore.

rasputnik6502 | 4 years ago | on: Why do we buy into the 'cult' of overwork?

> is just posturing to trick the underlings to over-work?

This. There's nothing bad in wanting to do a great job but most often you're not the one to benefit from that. Especially software devs, some of them can work miracles almost for free, just to get some recognition (but not too much, we don't want them to think they provide something extraordinary )