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Cake day: July 12th, 2023
  • agilob@programming.devtoProgramming@programming.dev•Back-end programmer for gig economy company describes how the sausage is made.English
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    3 days ago

    That’s not at all what I meant. Coordination of people is value added too, that totally counts into working hours.

    The other reason is, the more employees, the easier it is to get shitty unethical stuff done

    That’s the main spirit of what I tried to express. The more people to keep employed, the more ideas you need to justify your existence to the shareholders. The 300 devs aren’t adding new features, aren’t making your app faster, smaller, safer. The last 20 updates with “bugs fixed” in change logs? These bugs were bugs in A/B tests they are running on your device. They aren’t adding any end-user facing value to the app or experience. They are adding new way of tracking, updating existing A/B tests for new remotely controlled flags, adding new A/B tests.

    They are squeezing the profit margin from you. You’re paying for it AND are the product.

  • agilob@programming.devtoProgramming@programming.dev•Back-end programmer for gig economy company describes how the sausage is made.English
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    4 days ago

    Without it being said, we knew such things are happening. There are a few 100s of only mobile devs in Uber, while Uber app hasn’t really changed in years, and these devs aren’t creating any user-facing values. Running it must be difficult and a company need a lot of people for it, but there must be some point at which a company stops “disrupting” and just starts optimising and micro-optimising. This is what OP is talking about it, they are micro-optimising budget. There are 100s of them employed, so they must be doing something!

    Consider that 300 mobile devs produce close to 1 year of man-hours every day. This is enough time to complete your TODO list of app you always wanted to do. They spend it producing values for shareholders, not you.

    Now consider how many devs and experiments like these are done every day on facebook, instagram, X (formerly Twitter) and gmail.

  • agilob@programming.devtoProgramming@programming.dev•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    2 years ago

    Just not in Java…

    I think you’re biased against Java. Amazon was started in C/C++ and Java J2EE during times when to configure a webserver required writing like 300 lines of XML just to handle cookies, browser cache and a login page. Until recently BMW had their own JRE implementation. It’s not a secret that simcards, including these in Tesla cars run JavaCard too, even government issues sim cards in EU have to run Java Card, not C++. Everything was always fine with Java until ECMA Script appeared and made people iterate on software versions faster. New programming languages and team organisation methodologies left some programming languages in the dark, but this included C# too. All are quickly catching up. If Java was so bad, it wouldn’t be here with us today, like Perl.

  • agilob@programming.devtoProgramming@programming.dev•Willow ProtocolEnglish
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    2 years ago

    So while I’m myself struggling to fully understand what this is, it conceptually like it’s a blockchain on syncthing, where even if you subscribe to a read only share, you can locally delete what you don’t want to keep. So technically you could make bitorrent to behave like syncthing with search function for contacts you already know.