He tends to dawdle away his time and accomplish nothing.

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Cake day: July 12th, 2023
  • Christopher Masto@lemmy.masto.communitytoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Beyond enshittification, why does tech oftentimes suck?
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    1 month ago

    I worked at Google for over a decade. The issue isn’t that the engineers are unaware or unable. Time and time and time again there would be some new product or feature released for internal testing, it would be a complete disaster, bugs would be filed with tens of thousands of votes begging not to release it, and Memegen would go nuts. And all the feedback would be ignored and it would ship anyway.

    Upper management just doesn’t care. Reputational damage isn’t something they understand. The company is run by professional management consultants whose main expertise is gaslighting. And the layers and layers of people in the middle who don’t actually contribute any value have to constantly generate something to go into the constant cycle of performance reviews and promotion attempts, so they mess with everything, re-org, cancel projects, move teams around, duplicate work, compete with each other, and generally make life hell for everyone under them. It’s surprising anything gets done at all, but what does moves at a snail’s pace compared to the outside world. Not for lack of effort, the whole system is designed so you have to work 100 times harder than necessary and it feels like an accomplishment when you’ve spent a year adding a single checkbox to a UI.

    I may have gone on a slight tangent there.

  • Christopher Masto@lemmy.masto.communitytoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What tool do you use to save articles to read later?
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    9 months ago

    Browser bookmarks. My trick is I make a new folder every month, for example “2024-01 Bookmarks”, and put it in the bookmarks bar. Whenever I realize I’m leaving a tab open because I want to look at it later, I put it into the current folder. That way I know it’s not lost and I give myself permission to close it.

    When a new month comes around, I stick the previous folder in an “Archive” section and make a new one. It costs nothing to keep them forever, but avoids the current list getting out of control.

  • Christopher Masto@lemmy.masto.communitytohomeassistant@lemmy.world•The Home Assistant Green is here to make the most powerful smart home platform more accessibleEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I suppose that’s true. Rereading my comment, it’s a bit over the top. If I pretend now I don’t know anything and start at http://home-assistant.io, it’s not that hard to scroll down, see the thing, and buy it. I don’t know exactly how I got so off-track when I tried. Probably I knew “a little too much”, as in the words “home assistant blue” in the back of my head, Googled for that and got distracted by “I need to understand why there are two boxes and one isn’t for sale anymore, so exactly what is the difference is between them?”.

    Coming back to that naive journey, though, I could see how someone could end up buying Green with no wireless dongle or Yellow with no CM4 (especially since you can’t get one).

    I still think that for the limited size of this ecosystem, choosing a box shouldn’t be confusing. I can now understand where it came from, though, once I realized that HA Yellow was designed around a Raspberry Pi board that became unobtainable, so they had to go with a different architecture.