mlen

joined 2 years ago
[–] mlen@awful.systems 11 points 9 months ago

Ugh, just reading the summary made me want to puke. What the fuck is wrong with those people. Who the fuck thinks that delegating the responsibility to computers is a good idea. Can't they cope with the outcomes of their choices and need to outsource that responsibility to some magick software

[–] mlen@awful.systems 9 points 10 months ago

Thanks, I hate it

[–] mlen@awful.systems 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So does Java. /me runs

[–] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

He also did sawzall, but thankfully that didn't get widely adopted

[–] mlen@awful.systems 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's called "data chauffered": instead of following the data, tell it where it needs to take you

[–] mlen@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago

That certainly is an interesting take. I never thought about it this way

[–] mlen@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Basically means that it cannot be printed and must be done by hand, which originally implied being signed with ink.

[–] mlen@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Switzerland requires "wet" signatures too

[–] mlen@awful.systems 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google has no maintenance culture. Maintenance is simply not rewarded. Instead in order to get rewarded one needs to launch new things to show "impact". At some point the only way to move forward is to deprecate some unmaintained features or the entire product.

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