#project

anonymiss@despora.de

My 20 Year Career is Technical Debt or Deprecated

Source: https://blog.visionarycto.com/p/my-20-year-career-is-technical-debt

Technical debt is easily the most used buzzword these days. People say, “We are moving fast on our MVP while minimizing technical debt!”. They mention technical debt in there to sound cool or something.

I just laugh because everything is technical debt, eventually.

#technicalDebt #problem #software #development #developer #coder #programmer #knowledge #management #project #economy

anonymiss@despora.de

First contact: Global team to simulate #message from #extraterrestrial #intelligence to #Earth

Source: https://phys.org/news/2023-05-contact-global-team-simulate-message.html

The #ESA ExoMars Orbiter will transmit the encoded message on May 24 at 19:00 UTC / 12:00 pm PDT, with receipt on Earth 16 minutes later. To engage the public, the #SETI Institute will host a social #media live stream event featuring interviews with key team members, including scientists, engineers, artists and more, joining the live stream from around the world, including control rooms from the ATA, the GBT, and Medicina.

#aliens #simulation #news #project #space #exploration #science #Mars #FirstContact

anonymiss@despora.de

I’ve been employed in tech for years, but I’ve almost never worked

Source: https://emaggiori.com/employed-in-tech-for-years-but-almost-never-worked/

What is happening right now in tech may be one of the greatest market inefficiencies—or even deceptions—in history. I am writing this article because I think outsiders deserve to know what’s really going on in the field.

#work #job #problem #economy #business #technology #news #society #project #development #software #management

anonymiss@despora.de

Who Is Still Inside the #Metaverse? Searching for friends in Mark #Zuckerberg’s deserted #fantasyland.

Source: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/mark-zuckerberg-metaverse-meta-horizon-worlds.html

I don’t know the boy’s circumstances or what was going on in his #life. A #tragedy like that can happen anywhere. Still, I can’t help noticing how many of the stories tonight are about being alone — about not getting laid, not talking to the girl, not having someone there when they take off the headset. Seen through the lens of the metaverse, #America looks so huge and so lonely.

#software #Facebook #economy #project #fail #society #news #technology #loneliness #problem #vr #reality #future #meta

silvialdovini@diasp.org

Adopt a Beehive
With my supermarket clubcard points I have decided to support this project in favour of beekeepers.
Scrolling through the long list of adoptable beehives in Italy... my choice fell on this one, mainly due to the name of the Queen Bee :)
Soon I will receive a link with which I can follow 'my' bees live...and later on I will receive a jar of their honey
I can't wait..

https://dia.so/6iH
#AdoptABeehive #Bees #Project #Italy

anonymiss@despora.de

How to #evaluate the #performance of a #software #developer?

The majority agrees that #ElonMusk is doing it wrong with the rating: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/elon-twitter-how-manage-software-company-mohamed-el-kamhawi

Elon Musk is asking software engineers to print out the #code they wrote during the last 60 days for #review! this comes after reports that he threatened he will fire engineers if they don't develop the new paid verification #program.

The #problem here is that the review is often very superficial and only the amount of lines of code is evaluated. However, many lines of code say nothing about the quality. Clever lazy software developers can thus unnecessarily inflate their code and receive a good rating.

So with this kind of evaluation you fire very bad but also very good developers.

Since Elon prefers more brute #management, he probably doesn't care, because the #average is still what's needed to get the #job done.

But I wonder if there are not better simple #measurement methods to evaluate a software developer? The #method should preferably determine a value that even a non-expert #project #manager can evaluate.

#economy #labour #work #company #question

opensciencedaily@diasp.org
solarkater@despora.de

I am so fucked up about nowadays #IT ... #nerds ... #linux ... #fairphone
got a pc with #ubuntu-mate ... no way to find drivers for my printer for over 2 years
#ubuntu does not recognize my mobile neither - be it mate or another version
#fairphone not able to upload simply by my mail-site some docs, fotos whatsoever
microphone does not work, 10 different pdf readers via #f-droid do not work
connectiong from the mobile to the pcs transfering fotos from the #camera do not work
(debugging the usb ... nill)
at the #office we are using MSWord like a typewriting machine in the 70s ... tabs ? ... what for...
we use „space“... serial letters ? no idea how that works....
30 years or more we had these ... in German called „Textbausteine“ ... then that got another name and again .... „autotext“ ... no idea how it is called now... we type it in manually or are happy to copy and paste from somewher else
our #SAP - 30 years ago it even made fun in book-keeping dept.... when something had to be updated they programed via #ABAP a job to make it happen
NOW we have to change /update pricing in hundreds - no: thousands of orders MANUALLY

#MS-Office... inintelligible..... #Openoffice as an alternative ? ever tried to understand the help docs ? LOOOOOL
LIFE is not spending the whole time trying to find out the simplest task for a program which just should be running and making life EASIER
instead these autists are sitting in their little rooms developing their gorgeous single-minded #project results just fixated on one tine issue without ever taking into account the whole of the story
a nightmare............