If we don’t have meetings then how am I going to not get any work done this sprint?

Nice

Not inside a main function, won’t pass rust compiler check

Unfortunately that argument didn’t work for Gary McKinnon

Edit: I guess it kind of did because the British government refused to extradite him because of that argument, so as long as the “hacker” is in Britain they will be fine.

How did you forget that you need to install 2FA on your personal phone which also requires that you have Microsoft Authenticator installed on your phone and manages to never be able to connect to your organization so you spend 2 hours on the phone with IT before they give you temporary access so you can reset your 2FA and start the whole process over again next month?

It actually makes me complain more. At first I thought it was a magical black box of wizardry only Einstein level geniuses could make and now I realize it’s a crapload of bad architecture piled on garbage frameworks.

Found the PM/TPM. The best software was written without Agile and PMs/TPMs. It’s only after software becomes successful that the need is felt for that stuff.

The world runs on open source software and I don’t know of a single open source project that uses Agile or PMs/TPMs.

Rust dev confirmed

Interesting comment on the Mac. At my workplace we can choose between Mac or Windows (no Linux option unfortunately, my personal computer runs Debian). Pretty much all the principle and senior devs go for Mac, install vim, and live in the command line, and I do the same. All the windows people seem over reliant on VSCode, AI apps, and a bunch of other apps Unix people just have cli aliases for and vim shortcuts. I had to get a loaner laptop from work for a week and it was windows. Tried using powershell and installing some other CLI tools and after the first day just shut the laptop and didn’t work until I got back from travel and started using my Mac again.

This is why I refuse to work in production code bases in python, it’s a nightmare of build systems, linters, package managers (dear god help the poor soul who accidentally pip’d from pypi and not your companies artifactory instance), formatters, convoluted ci pipelines that always seem to fail, a series of “senior” devs that will make you redo everything because you wrote your own map (we don’t use functional programming here meme) instead of a for loop (can’t use list comprehension for “code readability issues”). Got to the point of just saying fuck it, I’ll write it in Scala or rust, SBT and Cargo god tier.

I used to have to use a CI pipeline at work that had over 40 jobs and 8 stages for checking some sql syntax and formatting and also a custom python ETL library that utilized pandas and constantly got OOM errors.

They didn’t write any unit tests because “we can just do that in the CI pipeline” and if you didn’t constantly pull breaking changes into your branch you would guarantee the pipeline would fail, but if you were lucky you only had to restart 30% of your jobs.

It was the most awful thing and killed developer productivity to the point people were leaving the team because it sucks to spend 40% of your time waiting for CI scripts to fail while you are being yelled at to deliver faster.

Because your dipshit Director, who came from a consulting firm like BCG or McKenzie and who couldn’t manage to throw together a “Hello, world” script in python now believes he is an expert in all tech because he read a medium article by a boot camp grad of some 8 week React course and thinks that giving Palantir Foundry $3 million a year to do basic ETL that was done previously by a couple junior devs is somehow “safer” than “writing custom code”, and by “custom code” I mean utilizing Apache Spark, Polars, and other open source tooling that Palantir Foundry is also utilizing, but charging you 40,000% more to use.

Why would God allow this to happen?

Cloudflare, Discord, and AWS lambda run on Rust

Ahh the blissful ignorance of not having to manage tech debt

I saw that, but it’s weird because Nielsen explicitly can’t do streaming views and state as much. Normally when streaming is discussed with any accurate measure we use SambaTV and even then we just multiply by 3 and say “that’s as close as we are going to get”.

I wonder where these numbers are from. Disney has at least one lawsuit (maybe more) for lying about streaming numbers to shareholders.