That’s not at all what I meant. Coordination of people is value added too, that totally counts into working hours.

The other reason is, the more employees, the easier it is to get shitty unethical stuff done

That’s the main spirit of what I tried to express. The more people to keep employed, the more ideas you need to justify your existence to the shareholders. The 300 devs aren’t adding new features, aren’t making your app faster, smaller, safer. The last 20 updates with “bugs fixed” in change logs? These bugs were bugs in A/B tests they are running on your device. They aren’t adding any end-user facing value to the app or experience. They are adding new way of tracking, updating existing A/B tests for new remotely controlled flags, adding new A/B tests.

They are squeezing the profit margin from you. You’re paying for it AND are the product.

deliveroo is one of the worst companies in the UK, yet it has massive market share, give that guy the benefit of the doubt https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.deliveroo.co.uk

Without it being said, we knew such things are happening. There are a few 100s of only mobile devs in Uber, while Uber app hasn’t really changed in years, and these devs aren’t creating any user-facing values. Running it must be difficult and a company need a lot of people for it, but there must be some point at which a company stops “disrupting” and just starts optimising and micro-optimising. This is what OP is talking about it, they are micro-optimising budget. There are 100s of them employed, so they must be doing something!

Consider that 300 mobile devs produce close to 1 year of man-hours every day. This is enough time to complete your TODO list of app you always wanted to do. They spend it producing values for shareholders, not you.

Now consider how many devs and experiments like these are done every day on facebook, instagram, X (formerly Twitter) and gmail.

I like super simple things that I can use from a single window of my editor or IDE. Most frequently I use vscodium, I use this https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=unjinjang.rest-api-client

I would like to confine it to firms using AI recruiting tools

and actively do damage to companies that don’t.

Old issue, so why post it now make it sound like MS demands something?

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It’s a regression, so ffmpeg should fix a regression.

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Just not in Java…

I think you’re biased against Java. Amazon was started in C/C++ and Java J2EE during times when to configure a webserver required writing like 300 lines of XML just to handle cookies, browser cache and a login page. Until recently BMW had their own JRE implementation. It’s not a secret that simcards, including these in Tesla cars run JavaCard too, even government issues sim cards in EU have to run Java Card, not C++. Everything was always fine with Java until ECMA Script appeared and made people iterate on software versions faster. New programming languages and team organisation methodologies left some programming languages in the dark, but this included C# too. All are quickly catching up. If Java was so bad, it wouldn’t be here with us today, like Perl.

There are two schools:

1. the best stack is the one you know best
2. the best stack is the one designed for the job

Remember that Google was written in Python and Java. Facebook in PHP. iOS in Objective-C. GitHub in Ruby on Rails.

After doing it for 15 years, I must be good at it and everything should be easy.

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So while I’m myself struggling to fully understand what this is, it conceptually like it’s a blockchain on syncthing, where even if you subscribe to a read only share, you can locally delete what you don’t want to keep. So technically you could make bitorrent to behave like syncthing with search function for contacts you already know.

Heres the blog post about the change dated in June this year

Half year too late for that outrage anyway :)

Fantastic way to start a shitstorm. You people don’t even use search function logged out, because if you did, you would know they changed it in 2016. Microsoft has nothing to do with it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11321623

Yeah, fuck Microsoft. They haven’t changed at all.

GitHub changed that a few months before acquisitions talks even started lol

https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/

I’ve thought of doing pen testing (later on in my career), but I’ve come to realize that it is better if users just started using privacy-respecting FOSS software like Signal, because if you give a hacker enough time, patience, and the right resources, they could hack into anything.

Your idea of pentesting is so far from what it looks like in reality that it’s probably not a path for you, at least not now. Let me explain: how am I going to protect my banking app using Signal? How will I know if our JSON unmarshalling library used by transaction service isn’t vulnerable or exploitable? What FOSS software shows me live dashboards of deployed software in container and their security risk?

everybody still needs them and they’re not going away any time soon.

Bank is a civilization old concept, it has always been here and will be. Banks are so durable, they will run after our civilization ends.

Being offline doesn’t mean not using a computer. I still had IDE and https://devdocs.io/ for better ctrl+f experience.

Learning from a documentation. Got a book, went offline and finished the book and training exercises without looking for anything online.

It doesn’t make the content in any way out of date

Noticed that Hibernate session (DB ORM session) was leaking to Jackson (JSON marshalling), potentially causing infinite n+1 problem. Changing a few lines of code to lazy loading and fixing the session leak reduced our daily data transfer from DB from 5.6Gb to 170Mb.

Not sure if this was the biggest optimisation, but definitely the dumbest issue.