Maintenance is not sexy for anyone; there was an article posted earlier with "advice for junior engineers" that had the top advice "(1) Pick business impact over backlog". Maintenance is backlog.
Is resignation a true restitution for wasting a quarter billion euros? Is the tax payer made whole?
Automation of a bad process or security measure is not a way out of the incompetence of people who designed it. Automation of garbage only brings more garbage.
Incompetence and laziness are very different things. You can have very hard working, engaged, active people that are still incompetent for the job they are supposed to do.
I am also European and I did a lot of recruiting: in my country, at least, there can be a test period but you must hire the test employee if you cannot prove they are not qualified. For example, you cannot get 2 people…
"hire fast and fire fast" is great way if you are allowed to. But there are 2 huge impediments to this: legislation (for example in Europe) makes it very hard to fire, sometimes almost impossible and, in many companies,…
I have a big problem with the "(1) Pick business impact over backlog" part as advice for a junior engineer. It always comes from people that are not only not juniors, but from people that are no longer engineers, but…
The answer is also a bit of a cliche; the people who can stop working, and don't, have a different motivation than "work for paying the bills". They don't "work", they actively have fun doing what they like to do, with…
> But not finding joy in anything is an actual sign of depression. Moving to something else that provides joy is a sign of healthy life, not depression. If you don't like modern media, you don't have to find some that…
Your are overestimating by orders of magnitude. There is not even one excellent game per year, lately.
You don't need to be depressed to see a decline in the outside world. For people that are old enough, it is quite obvious.
The market is oversaturated of mediocre games, but I struggle to find any notable titles in the past 5 years. 30 years I was pirating games I did not afford, in the past 15-20 years I bought all the games I played, but…
I am not talking about graphics or bugs, but about story and immersion. I don't care at all about the Witcher 3 remastering, but I loved the land, story and feeling of Toussaint. Cyberpunk does not reach that level,…
Unfortunately CDPR is showing some signs of Bioware-ing. As much as I liked Cyberpunk 2077, it was visibly "less than" Witcher 3 in too many ways. This is a sign of decline.
In the late '90 I participated to SETI@home, donating free CPU cycles over nigh on some servers that were running 24x7 and were not utilized at night. Power saving was not a thing, so all that electricity was wasted, I…
I was not interested about smart home. At all. Then my father asked me to help him install an automatic switch for external lights in the yard. I never did that, I used a Shelly relay and Home Assistant, it was simpler…
Sounds great on paper, but in reality it is a program to bring mediocre workers that would do anything for the opportunity, including being underpaid. My company did this, on a smaller scale than Microsoft, and the…
> program itself is racist as hell. Microsoft is literally bringing in foreigners, paying them much less to do the same damn job This is not racism, it is abuse of the visa system. It can happen to any race.
There is a "work and travel" program for students in Europe with valid visa and everything. I know lots of people who did that for a summer or two, it was an opportunity to see USA and also it was a great thing to list…
Your 1 billion dollar dog that will die 2 days after someone takes it from you. Tax that, please.
Almost. I would still want a location sharing app on my kids phones, a navigation app, maybe a sport tracking app. That would be a locked down smartphone with a few apps I would install and no browser access.
I checked the comments to see if anyone pointed to this: I can imagine so many memes with this line :)
I don't think that most competent IT people are pushing for digital-only systems. The people that I see pushing for digitalization are either clueless politicians or corrupt or incompetent IT people selling snake oil.…
I mean that higher end jobs don't want to be in an area where they don't enjoy. They are the higher tax payers and they want to enjoy their lives far from the kind of people that live in rent controlled housing - there…
> New York is a city that people all around the world want to live in I don't know anyone that wants to live in NY. I would not move there for a 7 figure salary. I think some opinions in this discussion are based on old…
Maintenance is not sexy for anyone; there was an article posted earlier with "advice for junior engineers" that had the top advice "(1) Pick business impact over backlog". Maintenance is backlog.
Is resignation a true restitution for wasting a quarter billion euros? Is the tax payer made whole?
Automation of a bad process or security measure is not a way out of the incompetence of people who designed it. Automation of garbage only brings more garbage.
Incompetence and laziness are very different things. You can have very hard working, engaged, active people that are still incompetent for the job they are supposed to do.
I am also European and I did a lot of recruiting: in my country, at least, there can be a test period but you must hire the test employee if you cannot prove they are not qualified. For example, you cannot get 2 people…
"hire fast and fire fast" is great way if you are allowed to. But there are 2 huge impediments to this: legislation (for example in Europe) makes it very hard to fire, sometimes almost impossible and, in many companies,…
I have a big problem with the "(1) Pick business impact over backlog" part as advice for a junior engineer. It always comes from people that are not only not juniors, but from people that are no longer engineers, but…
The answer is also a bit of a cliche; the people who can stop working, and don't, have a different motivation than "work for paying the bills". They don't "work", they actively have fun doing what they like to do, with…
> But not finding joy in anything is an actual sign of depression. Moving to something else that provides joy is a sign of healthy life, not depression. If you don't like modern media, you don't have to find some that…
Your are overestimating by orders of magnitude. There is not even one excellent game per year, lately.
You don't need to be depressed to see a decline in the outside world. For people that are old enough, it is quite obvious.
The market is oversaturated of mediocre games, but I struggle to find any notable titles in the past 5 years. 30 years I was pirating games I did not afford, in the past 15-20 years I bought all the games I played, but…
I am not talking about graphics or bugs, but about story and immersion. I don't care at all about the Witcher 3 remastering, but I loved the land, story and feeling of Toussaint. Cyberpunk does not reach that level,…
Unfortunately CDPR is showing some signs of Bioware-ing. As much as I liked Cyberpunk 2077, it was visibly "less than" Witcher 3 in too many ways. This is a sign of decline.
In the late '90 I participated to SETI@home, donating free CPU cycles over nigh on some servers that were running 24x7 and were not utilized at night. Power saving was not a thing, so all that electricity was wasted, I…
I was not interested about smart home. At all. Then my father asked me to help him install an automatic switch for external lights in the yard. I never did that, I used a Shelly relay and Home Assistant, it was simpler…
Sounds great on paper, but in reality it is a program to bring mediocre workers that would do anything for the opportunity, including being underpaid. My company did this, on a smaller scale than Microsoft, and the…
> program itself is racist as hell. Microsoft is literally bringing in foreigners, paying them much less to do the same damn job This is not racism, it is abuse of the visa system. It can happen to any race.
There is a "work and travel" program for students in Europe with valid visa and everything. I know lots of people who did that for a summer or two, it was an opportunity to see USA and also it was a great thing to list…
Your 1 billion dollar dog that will die 2 days after someone takes it from you. Tax that, please.
Almost. I would still want a location sharing app on my kids phones, a navigation app, maybe a sport tracking app. That would be a locked down smartphone with a few apps I would install and no browser access.
I checked the comments to see if anyone pointed to this: I can imagine so many memes with this line :)
I don't think that most competent IT people are pushing for digital-only systems. The people that I see pushing for digitalization are either clueless politicians or corrupt or incompetent IT people selling snake oil.…
I mean that higher end jobs don't want to be in an area where they don't enjoy. They are the higher tax payers and they want to enjoy their lives far from the kind of people that live in rent controlled housing - there…
> New York is a city that people all around the world want to live in I don't know anyone that wants to live in NY. I would not move there for a 7 figure salary. I think some opinions in this discussion are based on old…