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No, we should replace the marketing people who have the ideas that when implemented make software more complicated (which is this guy's main complaint).
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: we should replace the marketing people
or the managers that get in loved with the buzzword bullsh1t bingo and force it down the command chain
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"Software engineers often gravitate"
We do what? Huh?
Oh and you think databases are useless complication?
Yeah... uh ain't nobody got time to read that. Made it that far though.
If you open your mind far enough, your brains run down to the floor.
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It's hard to know where to start with this drivel. And that's putting it politely.
Quote: However, this over-bloated financial industry still fails to protect the economy from major crises, such as the Great Recession of 2007-2008.
The financial industry is bloated and suffers from crises because it knows that politicians and central bankers will bail it out. Both are abominations: capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without Hell.
Quote: Nathan Marz of Red Planet Labs suggests radically simplifying the development of scalable web apps (by 100x in terms of software engineering effort...
Anyone who claims they can reduce software effort by 100x merits little but derisive laughter, if not a rubber room, at this point. So does anyone quoting them.
Quote: Software engineers act as bureaucrats who hold to their power by retaining the headcount.
Software engineers have little power in this regard. Most managers don't even want to "waste" resources on architecture or refactoring.
Quote: This is how banks have established and grown their compliance departments
Compliance departments have grown because of increased regulations, a lot of it related to KYC (Know Your Customer). The author opines on the financial and software industries, yet is fairly ignorant of both.
Quote: Alas, bloated, inefficient, unreliable, wicked software will be written by human software engineers to increase their job security.
Alas, most of this is due to management allocating insufficient resources to architecture and refactoring.
To be fair, the article gets better for a time at this point.
Quote: The users and other stakeholders of software products should also govern its complexity
The concept of stakeholders, other than shareholders, is one of the more imbecilic concepts to gain a foothold in recent years. Management's fiduciary responsibility to shareholders means that they need to create a work environment that rewards the minimization of complexity. Getting them to do this is the challenge.
Quote: Thus, for the benefit of the stakeholders of these companies, they should shred human software engineers as quickly as possible. This is what Musk did when he bought Twitter, but less extreme.
Musk could do this, in part, because of the number of resources dedicated to enforcing political agendas. Hardly any software outfit is beset with that amount of fluff. Google is another example where a lot of similar roles could be axed.
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Greg Utas wrote: Google is another example where a lot of similar roles could be axed.
If they did that, how would they ever come up with the idea to put more ads in videos, and on the web? 
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The author is an idiot. He says we (software engineers) create overly complex systems and then goes on to imply we need to be regulated. Regulation guarantees complexity.
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It didn't work and the organization entered into a settlement. If you can't beat 'em, try paying someone to fight them
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How is that EU-legal? I usually like to give credit toward sensibility on such things across the pond.
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Probably a couple of those $$$ went to the hand in the back of a couple of politicians
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Google's problem is that their office products are junk when compared to Microsoft Office. Those firms didn't want to drop MS-Office, they just wanted to host it themselves vs. on Azure.
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Microsoft will introduce checkpoint cumulative updates starting in late 2024 for systems running devices running Windows Server 2025 and Windows 11, version 24H2 or later. Aren't they already supposed to be doing that?
And the scariest line in the article: "You will begin to receive checkpoint cumulative updates automatically, with no action required from you."
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You are going to be busy at the end of the year posting all reports of broken things...  
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Lyrics for Missy Elliot’s song “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” were transmitted from the DSN’s Goldstone complex to Venus, about 158 million miles (254 million kilometers) away. Now all the gangsta aliens be coming for our Benjamins, yo
Or something like that
I wouldn't think Venus counts as deep space, but they're the rocket scientists...
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and if the aliens ever thought we had some brain cells those thoughts are now gone.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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"My finger waves these days, they fall like Humpty
Chumpy, I break up with him before he dump me"
I guess we can say it's very real psychological introspection.
I wonder if part of the choice was because it has significant repetition in both the music and the lyrics.
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The flip it and reverse it one is better. They should've sent it instead.
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The threat actor behind the alleged breach claims it is a "hacktivist" group dedicated to defending artists from generative AI. Sadly, 900GB of that are just "U busy?" messages
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Any web, desktop, or mobile developer works with images often. See what all those icons look like when coding
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Jon Kern is looking for Agile exemplars, not the 'Agile Industrial Complex' Because all those agile failures were "Nae true Agile"
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Oh a coder scrummed all in stand up left work one evening fair,
And one could tell by the way he walked his story points were up there...
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A group of researchers at Microsoft have been working on a new AI large language model that was developed specifically for spreadsheet programs like Excel, Google Sheets, and others. Because humans have trouble figuring out stuff like =XLOOKUP(TRUE,B5:B16<>"",B5:B16,,,-1)
OK, it's not an LLM for figuring that out, but that would be handy at times
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Hey, here’s an idea… create a point system for every time Microsoft hurts us Where we save everyone the time of creating a Microsoft rant by linking to one
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Article wrote: Hey, here’s an idea… create a point system for every time Microsoft hurts us
Is there enough system for that?
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I was asking this question 15 years ago.
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Whatever happened to 'customers'?
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