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COBOL Programmers are the original vibecoders(danielsada.tech)
2 points by dshacker 2mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: WA State Tolls tool that shows the best time to take it to save money(watolls.danielsada.tech)
2 points by dshacker 2mo ago|0 comments
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Would AI have ruined my 100 days of algorithms?(danielsada.tech)
3 points by dshacker 2mo ago|0 comments
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Microsoft to Ship Coreutils with Windows(theverge.com)
11 points by dshacker 4mo ago|2 comments
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by dshacker 4mo ago
You're absolutely right - this is not X, but Y. ---- I'm absolutely tired at work on how many people are writing with em-dashes with obvious AI prose. I feel a little bit insulted but then I remember we all participate in this ch
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by dshacker 8mo ago
I'm not sure how to prove otherwise, but this actually happened to me. I don't understand this kind of comments saying "FAKE" for views or blog-posting. This is something that happened to me, and I can say for sure peopl
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by dshacker 8mo ago
It really demotivated me when this happened, I just kept seeing the PR open, but then I saw the changes applied before the PR was merged, which made me very confused. I then had an alert placed on every one of the updates made by Mike to ma
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by dshacker 8mo ago
I think people can be in hard conditions, needing a job, under pressure, burnt out and feel like this is their only way to keep their job. At least that's how it felt with Mike. At the end, I spent a lot of time sitting down with Mike
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by dshacker 8mo ago
I mean, there are some exceptions on when 1600 PRs are acceptable (Refactorings, etc) but otherwise agree. What really bugs me is that today, it is easier than ever to do this (even the LLM can do this!) and people still don't do it.
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by dshacker 8mo ago
Thanks! Fixed.
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by dshacker 8mo ago
Right, I think there is always a balance between being strict on code reviews, and just letting people ship stuff. I've also seen the other end of the stick in which a senior employee is blocking an important pr over "spacing&quot
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AI Lazyslop and Personal Responsibility(danielsada.tech)
66 points by dshacker 8mo ago|73 comments
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by dshacker 8mo ago
To be honest I'm not a native english speaker, so I might be using words wrong.
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I have vinyls with no vinyl player(danielsada.tech)
5 points by dshacker 8mo ago|3 comments
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by dshacker 1y ago
Thanks for sharing!
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How my manager tricked us team into doing things: The Experiment Framework(danielsada.tech)
1 points by dshacker 1y ago|0 comments
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by dshacker 1y ago
Comparatively to other companies, (amazon meta) I feel like Microsoft is "nicer"
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by dshacker 1y ago
Same experience for me, I still remember at IC1 getting 7k stocks over 5 years as my "stock bonus" for the year. which meant getting 1 or 2 MSFT stock every 4 months :D
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by dshacker 1y ago
Right, but there is even an implicit pact, you get lower-than-market compensation but you get better benefits and long-term stability. At least that's the mental math you did when joining the company and comparing offers between employ
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by dshacker 1y ago
Yeah, I was afraid of generalizing throughout the company. I think compared to other companies it seems to have a benefit of being more "nice". Maybe it's mostly targeted towards tech roles at that?
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The Broken Microsoft Pact: Layoffs and Performance Management(danielsada.tech)
124 points by dshacker 1y ago|99 comments
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by dshacker 1y ago
I mean yeah, in theory. I just found it really hard to work on multiple changes at a time vs git branches. Back in SD i used to have 2 or 3 machines + multiple VMs to be able to work on multiple things at a time. So I wouldn't say no n
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by dshacker 1y ago
Shallow clone of all of office, not onenote.
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by dshacker 1y ago
You’d be surprised at the amount of people at Microsoft that their entire career have been at Microsoft (pre-git-creation) that never used Git. Git is relatively new (2005) but source control systems are not.
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by dshacker 1y ago
How did you program the WIFI driver? How do you even start creating a WIFI driver from BASIC? (Is it in basic?)
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by dshacker 1y ago
> For context, if we tried this with “vanilla Git”, before we started our work, many of the commands would take 30 minutes up to hours and a few would never complete. The fact that most of them are less than 20 seconds is a huge step bu
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by dshacker 1y ago
php_final_final_v2.zip shipped to production. A classic. I had a similar experience with https://www.ioncube.com/ php encryption. Everything encrypted and no source control.
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by dshacker 1y ago
Even with this, there were many surprised people. I'm still amazed at all of the people that can ignore everything and just open their IDE and code (and maybe never see teams or email)
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by dshacker 1y ago
RI/FI is similar to having long-lived branches in Git. Imagine you have a "develop-word" branch in git. The admins for that branch would merge all of the changes of their code to "main" and from "main" to
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by dshacker 1y ago
I didn't even know Microsoft SourceSafe existed.

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