Comment on: To young zoomers or millennials

but... "Senior" engineer automatically means you know the answers and I am used to immediate gratification and handholding!!! /smh

0 14 Sep 2019 00:21 u/skyleach in v/programming
Comment on: Are there normal old school hackers here?

Back in the 80s we thought we were waking the world up to how much they were duped.

Since that time it has become abundantly clear that isn't ever going to happen. People don't want to know the truth, truth is depressing.

Couple with that all the hacks that exposed criminal activities but nothing ever happened to the criminals. What's the point? Public doesn't care which means those in power have nothing to fear (at least from the public).

Working on other things now that are much more difficult and actually legal.

1 13 Sep 2019 22:51 u/skyleach in v/programming
Comment on: After getting sacked and moving across the country my new bosses had a brilliant idea of outsourcing some projects to India. I emailed them this link. It may be too late, but fuck it.

Don't forget the other India gem: culture.

If anyone in the outsourced group does something wrong, they all circle the wagons to defend them, lie about it, misrepresent the situation and blame anyone but themselves for the mistake. That includes taking responsibility for fixing the mistake.

Also, finally, the explanation barrier. Good luck knowing if they understood anything you said because they will always say they do and then expect to be paid for not actually understanding anything before spending multiple days doing it wrong because they didn't understand at all but didn't want to admit it or even hint that they didn't understand by asking questions.

2 13 Sep 2019 22:41 u/skyleach in v/programming
Comment on: Clutching at its Perl, developer community ponders language name with less baggage

I did perl programming for a while but I have to say it's not just the name. The entire community is angry and bitter and has been for some time.

I think of the perl community as a poster child for how toxicity can really cause harm.

0 13 Sep 2019 22:35 u/skyleach in v/programming
Comment on: Node.js steering committee attempts removal of thought-criminal

IN all fairness, the people who left/forked and are responsible for this nonsense are philosophical trainwrecks.

I know it's probably a bias on my part but I like to think that most engineers are pragmatic and dedicated to philosophical realism rather than subjectiveism or egalitarianism. Apparently not, however.

1 29 Sep 2017 20:22 u/skyleach in v/programming