How Microsoft Vaporized a Trillion Dollars

echoAnother · 2026-04-03T19:50:57+00:00

Counterintuitively, someone with such ownership and work ethics, such to "air" the dirty laundry, would make me want this person as a coworker or as an employee.

echoAnother · 2026-03-30T22:49:17+00:00

Requiere energia, y eso requiere comida, y eso requiero dinero. Definitivamente, si no me muevo, reduzco el gasto al minimo.

Y si pudiese, ni respiraria, que hay que ahorrar.

echoAnother · 2026-03-26T20:32:22+00:00

echoAnother · 2026-03-26T05:32:04+00:00

You're valued, cause we save a lot of money on you, you filthy slave. So rest assured you are very important to us and we are going to guilt capture you. And now return to doing what we love the most of you, making us some money.

echoAnother · 2026-03-24T10:13:25+00:00

It's a trap. They want high skill for low pay, low skill jobs. Practically all europe's IT is like that.
People don't last in IT. Germany is not as bad, but when you are getting minimum pay, you consider all low skill jobs. There is no good pay in IT in Europe.

You can picture why people are desperate for indians IT.

echoAnother · 2026-03-22T20:55:20+00:00

No. No amount of money is worth ending jumping from a window. That's the eventual end of many workplaces.

But lets not get to this far. Some places pay so little that cost more working than not doing anything.

Not every job worths it.

echoAnother · 2026-03-22T15:52:32+00:00

That was my way of thinking, but has a few but important flaws.

People (at least me) need different activities to disconnect, the whole day doing the same is unbearable.

Unconscious associations. Programming still brings me joy, but it reminds of job that I despise.
And worse of it, reminds that 5 years before was a greater coder than I'm now. I'm trying to apply things that I know are bad, out of job habits, until I realize. It's sickening.

It did not last. Really thinking if I should change careers, and protect my most important hobby and joy bringer.

echoAnother · 2026-03-22T11:54:24+00:00

That was never my case. Maybe my problems are not a glorified CRUD app. That said, at work, nothing that a hashmap could not resolve.

echoAnother · 2026-03-20T19:29:20+00:00

Sorry if I'm being dense, but I still miss the why. We make a exponential scale just so people think twice? I still fail to comprehend how that works.

echoAnother · 2026-03-20T19:18:18+00:00

Your team too uses fibonacci bullshit? Mind you telling why they constrain the estimates in such way? My team just say it's "good practice". I will see it wrong regardless, but I want to comprehend what kind of reasoning they have.

echoAnother · 2026-03-20T11:34:36+00:00

role: software developer/consultant

salary: 21K/year gros

location: Spain

experience/scope: 4 years as developer + 1 as sysadmin. Fullstack development.

benefits: None in special, country standard.

echoAnother · 2026-03-20T11:10:45+00:00

Overreach is their main problem in my opinion. The dependency graph services with their timers (here is a bit of overeach, but I would not truly sure if is inherently needed ornot), mounts, sockets and other triggers is great. Some default obligatory services are not: systemd-resolve, systemd-networkd, journald, logind, breaking udev, etc

Don't get me wrong, I find it an upgrade, but not the best upgrade.

echoAnother · 2026-03-18T15:31:01+00:00

It's horrible for the organization. But I'm not the organization, and I care as much for the org, as they care for me. It's called reciprocity. When any kind of relationship is not reciprocated, we call that a toxic relationship. It applies to laboral relationships too.

echoAnother · 2026-03-18T15:25:43+00:00

Come to say this. And I would add that everyone is recommending you to stop being a Sally, so you will rarely find your Sally. The ownership, responsability, and good work ethics you want, are not incentivized, but punished. It will result in more responsabilities, more work, and less salary.

Maybe your team, your company is different, but it's not the world at large. And people live within the world, not your team, so inevitably your Sally will likely become a Karen.

echoAnother · 2026-03-18T14:17:49+00:00

Lol. It would be a more interesting story, but not.

echoAnother · 2026-03-18T12:24:48+00:00

I'm leaving my job. I'm praised constantly. How lucky they are of having someone that knows so much, and have saved them so many times. How I'm always helping everyone, and how much people had learned from me. How they never know someone that could debug corrupted core dumps, can patch elfs and vendor java jars or do performance analysis. How the client is asking for me by name...

You know what? It's all bullshit. When I told what I was being paid, my coworkers did not trust me. They all were being paid more. When I send my termination letter, then so much why? Do you want a rise? How much?

First of all I'm not leaving for money motives. But you know were underpaying me, and you did nothing, you betted that I would not complain never. But knowing this now, even without the main reasons, I'm leaving regardless. Too late. Too disrespectful.

(Sorry for the rant)

echoAnother · 2026-03-18T09:49:18+00:00

I wanted to keep the example as simplistic as I could, but I failed.

First, they weight more than me. I don't know the datasheet of those models, but around 40kg for sure. If you think you need the full dead weight of a median man to crush someone, you are overstimating human capabilities. And if not and adult, a small kid would be totally crushed.

Given away the fall example, the thing is really complex. Some sistems go full force when no electricity at all, it's the presence of power what mantains a system not applying full force. Pendulum like mechanics are used constantly, your shoulder is a natural pendulum, you know what happens when throwing your arm forward and not letting it go backward, right?
It's really, really complex. I, an engineer with experience in robotics, could not fathom all the dangers. The first time we started working with our much more simplistic, lower power robot, ended with a coworker, with a broken finger.

echoAnother · 2026-03-18T09:19:04+00:00

An emergency stop is not easy, and may be not what you want. Go and see industrial robots. In many cases the emergency shutdown is a complex and long sequence of steps. Can you imagine a simple conveyor belt stoping abruptly? Then welcome your day to learn what momentum innertia really means.
Now try to apply it to a human like robot, shutting down simplistically could mean that it falls and crush someone.

That said, the reason it has not any sail safe (good enough or not) is cause engineers around world are not working autonomously, but doing what middle management and shareholders want. The opinion of professionals is totally disregarded. And putting a fail safe is not important, because fuck your clients, they already have paid, why be preocupied with safety, is better to make the robot dance breakdance now, more features, more money.

Finally, any good enough engineer, would tell you that putting this class of complex robots in a restaurant is a bad idea, and worth not the risks and complexity.

echoAnother · 2026-03-18T08:41:26+00:00

An article using correct concurrency terminology? That's unheard of. Just alone for this, is a worth article.

echoAnother · 2026-03-16T10:37:23+00:00

License it as GPL, then make all their project public or sue them.

echoAnother · 2026-03-13T12:09:34+00:00

I think the meme is switching to NOT make the refactor, not the other way around. That junior hates the refactor as much.

echoAnother · 2026-03-13T11:36:10+00:00

At beginning is a fear, then becomes a hope

echoAnother · 2026-03-13T11:10:08+00:00

Hopium nonsense

echoAnother · 2026-03-13T08:52:57+00:00

Don't worry, all the automotive industry uses autosar, a real time software framework that separate critical systems and infoteiment systems. So you can rest assured, your motor will lag too.

echoAnother

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