V0ldek

joined 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ok but how detailed can we get then

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Слава Україні. The world has failed you.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

I hope at least CPT does not have daylight's savings

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

What is controversial about Kolmogorov.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

"Very well, we shall resume in an hour" will never not crack me up

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

But it was written about Microsoft specifically. What's your point?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

White people are late sometimes too...?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

almost every person in tech (...) to deal with the fertility crisis

Why would we be listening to "tech" to deal with "the fertility crisis"? Why is "tech" concerned with "fertility"?

Stay in your fucking lane, will ya. How about mandatory eugenic polygynous marriages to address the growing crisis of open-source development? The crisis of newest C++ standards not being implemented in the popular compilers quickly enough? The crisis of Node.JS existing?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

If you keep telling young men (which most programmers starting out are) that this language is so dangerous, so scary, of course they’ll start using it

I always suspected that I wasn't a REAL MAN™, but I didn't know that me learning programming through C++ and being like "well this shit sucks, what the fuck, there has to be a better way" was one of the first symptoms.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

referring to Colored People’s Time

to the what now? What cursed horror beyond my comprehension am I going to learn today?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I worked at MSFT between 2021 and 2023.

The Growth Mindset is very much just a gaslighting tool. To be honest I didn't get the culty vibe from it while being on the inside, on the other hand no one ever tried to make me to read Satya's stupid book (thankfully).

One important thing I just have to talk about is The Layoffs. If you ask me about "Growth Mindset", or indeed if I ask around my former MSFT colleagues about the first thing that comes to their mind when they hear it, it will be that time when, not even a month after the massive 2023 layoffs where MSFT fired 11,000 people, we were told by management at a Townhall that it is time for us to "apply Growth Mindset and move forward". I remember very clearly that they tried to spin it as if the layoffs were something that just "happened to us" and we had to move on, as if it was a hurricane that hit the office and not a deliberate act of management to cut costs. It was fucking amazing to hear that from them after I had a literal panic attack due to the uncertainty after the first wave of firings.

I made the decision to quit not long after. When I was leaving the genAI brain rot was already in full swing. The stuff about autoplaging Connects is just a great affirmation of my decision, that company is fucked.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe if we funded them better they'd be able to tackle larger projects.

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