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by dschiavu 3y ago
The same MBA-ization of Boeing has been happening in other companies as well, including in the IT sector. Seriously, how can we allow non-engineers to lead aerospace or tech companies at all?
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by dschiavu 3y ago
The curse of software "engineering". Well, don't think you can call our discipline engineering at all. If buildings were built the same way modern software gets built, we would never have the Burj Khalifa, the Shanghai Tower
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by dschiavu 4y ago
If there's anything that needs to be discussed, we discuss it, good or bad. Otherwise, we fill the rest of the 30 minutes with discussions about the weather, our hobbies, our daily lives. Given I work fully remotely and live alone (but
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by dschiavu 4y ago
Have a read of David Grabber’s essay “On the phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs”, it explains this phenomenon quite well.
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by dschiavu 4y ago
Agree, well summarized. I believe this is all due to the phenomenon of "bullshit jobs" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs ) which has taken a lot of traction since the off-shoring of most of the real
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by dschiavu 5y ago
Web browsers have been trying to imitate operating systems for far too long now. We need to get away with this current model of using a document rendering language such as HTML/CSS and a terrible language such as JavaScript to build ap
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by dschiavu 5y ago
I was expecting the prize to be awarded to mRNA vaccines related work.
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by dschiavu 5y ago
It's time to decentralize and open up the Internet again, as it once was (ie. IRC, NNTP and other open protocols) instead of relying on commercial entities (Google, Facebook, Reddit, Amazon) to control our data and access to it.
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by dschiavu 5y ago
It's time to decentralize and open up the Internet again, as it once was (ie. IRC, NNTP and other open protocols) instead of relying on commercial entities (Google, Facebook, Amazon) to control our data and access to it.