So … just as good as any other AI.

Holy fraudulent ads Batman

Eh, as long as the laptops break within one year, it’s not fraud.

outright caste based racism I saw amongst Indian actual employees vs Indian contractors

I worked at the Comcast Center back when Comcast was building a new skyscraper two blocks away. The reason for this new building was that the CC had become jam-packed with InfoSys contractors, like literally five or six developers jammed into one-person offices, floor after floor after floor. The executives – a majority of whom were Indian-American – wanted to see a lot fewer Indians around their headquarters (and they talked about this openly) so they built an entire new building to house them.

What would happen if you trained an AI entirely and solely on Microslop’s knowledge base?

I get it now. As the Firesign Theater said: “ha ha that’s very logical.”

I don’t understand what you meant here. OP did mean to write “unhealthy”.

They are extremely open lesbians. I just do not get it.

I actually sort of get it: they really hate black people and I guess that trumps all. Pun intended.

I work with a bunch of huge trumpers, two of whom are (married even) lesbians. They both have somehow arrived at the mental state where they think Republicans are pro-gay and Democrats are anti-gay. If you’re expecting these people to see reason, you’re going to be disappointed.

Windows Phone was great. I’d done Windows Mobile since 2005 and it was nice to be able to continue developing with C#/.NET and Visual Studio (back when it was still good) in a more modern OS. One thing that really spoiled me permanently was being able to compile, build and deploy the app I was working on to my test device effectively instantaneously – like, by the time I’d moved my hand over to the device, the app was already up and running. Then I switched to iOS where the same process could take minutes, also Blackberry where it might take half an hour or never happen at all.

Funny thing: RIM was going around circa 2010/2011 offering companies cash bounties of $10K to $20K to develop apps for Blackberry, since they were dying a rapid death but were still flush with cash. Nobody that I know of took them up on the offers. I tried to get my company to make a Windows Phone version of our software but I was laughed at (and deservedly so).

It’s weird, I got laid off by a west coast tech giant and they gave me two months’ notice, and they were happy to have me doing nothing that whole time (and I’d had nothing to do for about six months prior to that). I was remote so I guess they felt that I couldn’t fuck shit up on the way out.

Overall I think preventing discussion is healthy

Did you mean unhealthy?

My favorite Family Circus was the one where Billy is holding a turtle and saying “Beanie’s so gnarled and smelly he reminds me of grandma”.

“As a developer given I am working on page X Then all functionality of page X is correct”

Heh, I know exactly what accent to read this with.

My god, that’s worse than Wonder buying shitty software from Sweetgreen for $186 million.

3 coders and 1597 managers.

“Uh, we need you to clear out your desk ASAP.”
“Sure, just submit a JIRA ticket and I’ll get right on it.”

so you can focus on what really matters… meetings! collecting unemployment!

That would be incredibly ironic given that they completely fucking gave up on mobile devices when the iPhone came out.

It’s kind of funny how eagerly we programmers criticize “premature optimization”, when often optimization is not premature at all but truly necessary. A related problem is that programmers often have top-of-the-line gear, so code that works acceptably well on their equipment is hideously slow when running on normal people’s machines. When I was managing my team, I would encourage people to develop on out-of-date devices (or at least test their code out on them once in a while).

That’s obvious. I’m pointing out that your logic doesn’t support your opinion.