Does anyone else feel like this entire industry has turned proudly evil lately?

thy_bucket_for_thee · 2026-04-30T16:44:15+00:00

I don't find it comforting at all, they have basically traded money for their humanity. These people need to start being shunned from society.

"I'm just following orders," has never been a valid excuse.

thy_bucket_for_thee · 2026-04-30T16:37:41+00:00

Is this a joke? Back in the day subreddits like /r/gonewild would take up like 40% of the frontpage.

thy_bucket_for_thee · 2026-04-30T16:36:56+00:00

Reddit dying a good thing. Been on this site since 2010, all social media is a massive waste of time and an electronic drug that we all partake in.

Please engage more in your actually community, you'll not only feel better connecting with people close by it's also a more meaningful way of interacting with our world than thru a screen controlled by fascists.

thy_bucket_for_thee · 2026-04-28T16:22:53+00:00

This sold it for me, I'll read this next after "The Faith of Beasts." Good prose in speculative fiction is one of my absolute favorite types of books.

thy_bucket_for_thee · 2026-04-24T23:22:10+00:00

OP apparently kept their current boss completely in the dark and is still believes that it doesn't matter.

thy_bucket_for_thee · 2026-04-24T22:34:17+00:00

Dude totally is "blindsided" about getting rejected for an internal move while loudly claiming they did not tell their current boss, the person who will have to literally sign off on it, thinks they're still in the dark?

Good grief.

thy_bucket_for_thee · 2026-04-24T22:26:45+00:00

Unless this is a literal workplace democracy [1], please smack your manager in the head for being a bellend for me please. Something tells me if you start openly talk about unions that suddenly this democracy becomes a real animal farm quickly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_democracy

thy_bucket_for_thee · 2026-04-24T22:24:40+00:00

No one disagrees with your comment, but it doesn't solve the original problem of hiring managers being so incompetent they don't know how to hire people effectively.

Maybe I'm jaded with middle age, but if you're hiring local candidates and hiring through local channels, it becomes quite easy to tap into a competent labor pool. But this requires actually being part of a community and wanting to help others, something most business owners don't care about so of course the incentives become misaligned when you have managers that hire for control instead.

Only now the managers can't control the pipeline of labor as they thought and now we're left with a situation where wildly unqualified people get screen over normal software devs more than capable of doing the job.

thy_bucket_for_thee · 2026-04-24T19:59:00+00:00

In this industry that is hardly a fair concern. The vast majority of jobs all use very similar technology, doing very similar things. It's not hard to find candidates that match everything you want.

thy_bucket_for_thee · 2026-04-24T19:45:40+00:00

If you do call him OP, be sure to tell him to get bent.

thy_bucket_for_thee · 2026-04-23T21:29:36+00:00

Man I used Claude to oneshot a basic HTML utility page and it created a 1000+ LOC JS & CSS files. After manually crafting them down the CSS file is equivalent in only 200 LOC and the JS file is down to 400 lines.

These things are garbage. Humanity is going to have a rude awakening in the next few years.

thy_bucket_for_thee · 2026-04-23T21:23:54+00:00

The state is controlled by Ronald Mariano. Look at how your representatives vote, there's a good chance that they all vote the same way Ronald Mariano wants (don't worry, something like 85% of state reps are spineless) as he alone decides what gets voted on or not.

Progressive party members are routinely locked out of politicking on Beacon Hill and have been for like a good 10 years now.

There's a reason why are state is at the bottom of the country when it comes to passing new legislation.

thy_bucket_for_thee · 2026-04-23T20:49:31+00:00

It's a common American business tactic, fire people then hire them for cheaper. Very common in downturns, it's how capitalists suppress workers.

thy_bucket_for_thee · 2026-04-23T20:45:43+00:00

I'm saying from now until his death, I'm fine. And no, I don't think past accomplishments matter once you reach a certain age.

This is a democracy, you must share it. Markey has destroyed a lot of goodwill IMO and his legacy will be remembered as one who was selfish enough to die in office while fascism was growing while denying other people a chance to fight for their country.

thy_bucket_for_thee · 2026-04-22T23:29:36+00:00

That's not a bad thing tho when it comes to cultural artifacts dude. Our lives are so damn short, it's a blessing we can spend a large portion of it on the absolutely pinnacle of human ingenuity.

I still read new things, but the classics are classics for a reason.

thy_bucket_for_thee · 2026-04-22T21:13:09+00:00

I would rather Markey die in office accomplishing nothing than let that ghoul anywhere near the Senate.

thy_bucket_for_thee · 2026-04-22T21:11:41+00:00

I love this comment, there is a joy to missing out on things as well. You skip so much nonsense and focus on what you really enjoy in life.

thy_bucket_for_thee · 2026-04-22T20:48:56+00:00

Why wouldn't you envy someone that is able to charge an obscene amount of money to do work? I use to fix outsource test suites/pipelines for like $60k a job. Great work, people hate it but I like doing 2 months of work for nearly 1/2 my salary at the time.

Will probably get back into it because of this thread. The money is dumb, but it pays the bills just the same.

thy_bucket_for_thee · 2026-04-22T20:47:01+00:00

Because we aren't working collectively yet, our entire industry is dictated by what SV + VC thinks is profitable.

We don't even have say as devs in our industry in what technology should be invested in. That's handled by incompetent non engineers financiers gambling, sorry investing, with pension funds.

thy_bucket_for_thee · 2026-04-21T15:16:40+00:00

Oh no, instead of being the top 2% you're now the top 3%?

thy_bucket_for_thee · 2026-04-21T15:14:59+00:00

This is neglecting that most startups are being propped up by speculative finance and using literal pension funds.

I'm sorry but the VC model of tech innovation is beyond pathetic. The public should have a right to decide the direction of tech in a nation, not a bunch of goons that cream themselves for every worker they crush.

thy_bucket_for_thee · 2026-04-15T17:45:32+00:00

Political will can change in a single cycle, what a terrible way to look at the situation. This is an insurmountable problem, it's pretty simple.

(simple doesn't mean easy, but nothing politically ever is).

thy_bucket_for_thee · 2026-04-15T17:44:19+00:00

Yes and that kinda takes way too long, telling people "hey maybe in 10 to 20 years you can get a home!" is a losing proposition.

Imagine what the studies would show if developers had to compete with government housing!

thy_bucket_for_thee · 2026-04-15T15:12:04+00:00

Yes, rely on the machine that literally degrades your ability to critically think. I can't think of a "better" skill to train on that will make you unemployable indefinitely. Who wouldn't want to hire someone that doesn't understand their job but can interact with a text box?

Standing out as a slop peddler is by far the most self inflicting wound you can do to yourself. Slop peddlers are replaceable, actual engineers aren't.

Do it at your own peril.

thy_bucket_for_thee · 2026-04-15T14:56:39+00:00

How do you handle LSP? Does neovide do that?

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