“Do the least amount of work for the most amount of pay you can”

Windows is a win for the proletariat at work. Linux was made for the proletariat for the revolution.

Was in this position at Microsoft for two years. I already hated them because I ended up working for them after they acquired my smaller company. Pennies on the dollar, massive layoffs beforehand, fired literally all the most important people (which is why I wasn’t fired, I really am just trying to collect a paycheck and do nothing more).

Anyway, ended up basically being placed in a middleman position that I quickly realized didn’t need to exist. Basically, spent two years slowing down communication between my companies team and the existing Microsoft team. Literally, I just kept the two teams from directly communicating and going through me for everything. I think I wrote less than 1000 lines of code during that time.

And no, I didn’t like my team either from the original company. They were all new hires prior to us being acquired and they fired everyone on my team that had worked on the project for nearly 5 years. So, didn’t feel bad about slowing them down either.

Basically a shitty startup that milked it’s employees with hopes of Microsoft becoming our customer. Encouraging people to exercise their options only to sell the company for pennies on the dollar and fire them.

Got through two years of slowing down an awful genocide supporting company before the layoffs finally got me.

Was a good run.

It literally helps future programmers. There is nothing more inspiring than reading comments you can feel solidarity with. These literally are load bearing comments.

I also enjoy the sarcastic “I won’t regret taking this shortcut” comments. Like, you’re trying to fix some ass-holes code and they are literally mocking you for the fact that they knew they did it wrong but it would be someone else’s problem in the future. It’s a “pass the torch” kind of thing that I always enjoy. Like, I can’t be mad because I just feel so connected in our mutual frustration of wage labor bull shit.

The fart sniffers are there to prevent your pull request from being accepted because they have nothing better to do. They exist because they are promoted so your manager, that contributes nothing, can point to them as a “team player”.

I swear to God. Corporate code would literally work better if we auto accepted every pull request and just had a single meeting each month to decide if we should revert back to last month and try again or accept our current state as “better”.

Fuck waterfall, Fuck agile. Just go with the “was it worth it?” monthly review method.

Did we create more problems than we solved? Like, I feel like the Windows search function wouldn’t have passed this review and we wouldn’t get 0 results for the “uninstall” search string and start suggesting Bing results if this minimal method of rational discussion existed at a higher level.

Some blue checks are still unpaid legacy ones. But that’s usually large celebs. Probably not the case with this guy.

Recently helped some Lemmy user who was having issues with images loading the thumbnail version for every link. Bunch of people trying to figure out why in the comments but no one thinking DNS. I told him it was probably DNS. It was DNS.

Probably one of the “dangerous illegal attacks poor little ICE officers!”

Nice. I learned about different applications of whisper because I’m a degenerate.

https://github.com/meizhong986/WhisperJAV