• melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    57·
    3 days ago

    okay see I was in favor of what he did but his politics were kind of incoherent so I couldn’t jump on the ‘idolize this man’ train.

    I guess now I gotta.

  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
    82·
    3 days ago

    Remember then the media was calling him a Techbro instead of a tech worker? Yeah, he was never a Techbro.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      Maybe I misunderstand the context of the term but I never viewed them as mutually exclusive. There are toxic “bro” type devs who are still actually good devs (doesn’t excuse being an ass though). I never viewed it as meaning someone who doesn’t code “for real” but maybe I’m misusing it.

      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
        23·
        3 days ago

        For me, “Techbro” exclusively refers to people who repackage existing ideas and sell them as an innovation to VC investors. Think of how many techbros keep reinventing trains and boats, but worse.

        • MathiasTCK@lemmy.world
          10·
          3 days ago

          I picture those who didn’t embrace geek culture or esthetics, leaning more towards jock and fraternity culture instead, but who saw money in computers.

          • oatscoop@midwest.social
            3·
            2 days ago

            Arrogant, posturing douchebags that don’t understand the technology they’re involved in and are unwilling to learn. Any “work” that’s done is by actual tech workers or tools creates by them.

            The tech bro is only in it for money and “prestige”

          • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
            4·
            3 days ago

            That’s how I’ve always interpreted it. Specifically about toxic jocks though, nothing inherently wrong with enjoying sports.

            • MathiasTCK@lemmy.world
              2·
              3 days ago

              I felt the same, and I want sports to be a vehicle for teaching people about fitness, and teamwork. I am not sure I still do, it so often dissolves into toxic competition, self harm, injury, violence, riots and a general us against them attitude.

              I hope people get good things from sports and avoid the bad things.

      • gamer@lemm.ee
        9·
        3 days ago

        I’ve always seen it as meaning the type of douche who would pitch anything to YC

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        tech bros are people like musk, zuckerberg, a little bezos, altman,etc. same goes for cryptobros, people that peddle the actual crypto, but are very bad at it or they arnt even investing in it themselves. i know someone who was peddling obscure one as actual success.

        gates, and Jobs is another.

  • Agent641@lemmy.world
    159·
    4 days ago

    So “Fix Civ Bugs” is new code for “Eat the rich” and it’s not even doublespeak.

    Civilization has these bugs where some people can get ultra wealthy and ruin it for everyone. As Devs, we need to fix that.

    Taking bets on how long before discussing fixing Civ bugs gets you banned on r*ddit

  • merc@sh.itjust.works
    30·
    3 days ago

    From the Newsweek article:

    Civilization VI, or ‘Civ IV,’

    Sophie! Don’t you know your Roman Numerals?

    • itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml
      26·
      4 days ago

      Jira is absolute trash. Scrumlords, and their 4 days of actual work per year, should spend their large amount of free time making software that isn’t garbage.

      • kreskin@lemmy.world
        14·
        4 days ago

        yes, but I havent seen anything thats better yet. I’ve seen a bunch of worse ticketing systems.

        • applebuschEnglish
          17·
          4 days ago

          The true answer, which not one single CEO will ever want to hear until the problem becomes so dire it threatens the business, is if all the tools available are hot garbage, it’s time to build your own. Generality in software has a cost, and for large multidisciplinary problems like job tracking or ticketing, that cost makes developing an in-house tool for solving your specific problem and your specific use case much more efficient than what any general tool could produce. All those stupid features that some other company depends on, or no one uses, or are only there because someone was trying to capture all possible use cases, can simply not exist. That makes the tool faster, more efficient, simpler to use, and when you realize there’s some feature that would be really valuable you can just implement it rather than cludge together some half assed version in someone else’s proprietary shitpile. There is a scale where things like jira make sense, but much like cloud services it’s a technical trap because by the time you realize the tool doesn’t really work for your use case it’s too late to switch. At that point you’re already past the point you need to start developing your own tool, but the sunk cost fallacy is a bitch and there’s never enough funding for that. Pay no attention to the csuite salaries.

          • slaacaa@lemmy.world
            12·
            4 days ago

            This is a very difficult topic, as sometimes I think the opposite end is true, where a company like mine spends a billion to develop their own solution, which is worse than anything on the market, and worse than our old systems. Executives hallucinating that they will become the next innovative tech company are also a problem, as they vacuum up a lot of resources from the market, and then everybody complains how you cannot find an architect anywhere.

            I think companies should do a make-or-buy decision for each tool, and reevaluate this regularly. Of course this requires extra work, and letting go of politics (and sometimes corruption), so never going to happen.

          • spooky2092English
            3·
            4 days ago

            There is a scale where things like jira make sense, but much like cloud services it’s a technical trap because by the time you realize the tool doesn’t really work for your use case it’s too late to switch.

            Heh, my org went the opposite route. They started by developing their own tool that’s gotten so big and bloated (with all the original implementers LONG gone) that it’s at the point where they’re talking about moving to a pre built tool because the self built one is too unwieldy to do what we need to do.

            At that point you’re already past the point you need to start developing your own tool, but the sunk cost fallacy is a bitch and there’s never enough funding for that.

            And if you’re not at that point at the beginning of the process, wait a few years until employee churn is high enough that the sunk cost of the self built system is finally outweighed by the technical debt of the system.

            • ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              3·
              3 days ago

              Systems have lifecycles. They should die at some time and be replaced by other systems that function better for the now.

              But instead, patch patch patch and keep all the unused or rarely used functions, as well as add more because some csuite attended a conference once and decided it needed x y and z even though company only used a-h.

    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 days ago

      I’ve used Jira for a very long time and I’ve never had the utter hate for it that so many people seem to have… are you a PM or a Dev?

      For me it’s just create story, add title/description, add any labels or components and then it just works.

      Someone else set up all the workflows for us though, I just do dev with it.

      • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
        7·
        4 days ago

        I honestly don’t get this point of view.

        Then we have to assume the government are happy for the real killer to go free. Then what happens when he kills another CEO and says to you got the wrong man.

        • Muad'dib@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
          24·
          4 days ago

          Why would a killer carry a ghost gun across state lines? It’s designed to be thrown away. The killer obviously had a plan.

          The answer is the killer didn’t. The killer followed the plan and threw away the ghost gun. The police found it and planted it on Luigi.

            • elatedCatfish@lemm.eeEnglish
              4·
              3 days ago

              A 3D printed gun absolutely is. They’re not durable at all and would break after a few uses.

                • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
                  1·
                  3 days ago

                  The frame, sure. That’s only half the gun though. You need your chamber and barrel to be forged steel, unless I missed some majorly significant news in 3D printing tech (which is possible).

          • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            3 days ago

            he "allegedly’ was going after more people, i would assume it would eventually the sniveling andrew witty head of UHG, and HEMSELY Chairman BOD, both are british. witty worked in glaxo-kline smith before, sound familiar it should. its a biotech company.

          • girlthingEnglish
            1·
            3 days ago

            But… why him? They could have framed literally any convicted felon, and have a much easier time with the jury. Why would they choose an attractive cis white male engineer?

            • Muad'dib@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
              26·
              3 days ago

              Because his social media profile matched the criteria they gave to the AI system for a white, young, male, person with chronic health issues who’s engaged with extremist political content in the past in the desired location.

              It’s all about the data these days. They have systems on systems to monitor us all. Luigi read the Unabomber manifesto for a laugh and left a review. The algorithm identified him as a political extremist and fed his name to the pigs.

              • Jayjader@jlai.luEnglish
                3·
                3 days ago

                Reminds me of some of the scenes and themes in the city of Nephilopolis in Dresden Codak.

                (I wonder if Luigi has read that webcomic)

              • girlthingEnglish
                3·
                3 days ago

                Ok, didn’t realise the shooter’s race and gender were apparent from footage. They could have framed someone with a marginalized identity otherwise.

                If he was framed by an algorithm, though, it was a pretty shitty algorithm. Luigi’s political views were all over the place, and I don’t remember any indications of him even supporting or advocating violence. Meanwhile there are still plenty of actual radical leftists on the internet. Was he really the most convincing scapegoat they could find? Pretty sure I could do better by manually scrolling Twitter.

        • FourGreenFields@feddit.orgEnglish
          10·
          4 days ago

          Then what happens when he kills another CEO and says to you got the wrong man.

          Call a copycat for the first part, call a liar (and any proof fake) for the second. Helps that the US federal government rejects the concept of “fact” anyway.

          It could lead to some uproar, but maybe that’s a risk they’re willing to take, or simply ignore.

        • Match!!@pawb.socialEnglish
          6·
          3 days ago

          the real killer would get blackbagged and extrajudicially executed with no expense spared and no hope of a trial

    • kreskin@lemmy.world
      8·
      4 days ago

      No need to remove, just appoint the intern as scrum master and have them close bugs wontfix.