[-] alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org 60 points 1 year ago

I feel like most things degrade as a matter of scope-creep, while trying to implement features that are actually complex and non-trivial.

Take the unholy mess of modern Microsoft Office. MS Office might have been a good tool for a single purpose back in the 80s, but the addition of multiple generation/layers of features that have been halfway abandoned but kept for compatibilitys sake, make any more complex task non-trivial. There are multiple approaches for implementing templating MS Word, none of which are really good. MS Macros have been great... if you are trying to get arbitrary code execution on Windows machines. And collaboretive editing features include halfway abandoned sharing features and a half-baked Web Version of Office 365.

As a matter of fact I don't believe this is purely out of corporate greed, but rather a lack of scope limitation during design. People don't ask if they should, if they simply can do. We shouldn't have macros inside of Text Documents, there should be another tool for that. We shouldn't have SQL queries pulling into Excel Worksheets. We shouldn't use Excel as a database, but people had to change names of biological genes to avoid these being autoformatted in Excel.

But as a matter of fact, in general one is limited to working with the tools one knows, so convincing someone to use the correct tool for a job will always be harder than just delivering additional features, that we know will make the overall product worse.

[-] alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org 60 points 1 year ago

Guess he has only been working 250x as hard as the other employees

[-] alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org 32 points 1 year ago

Reducing human oversight and intervention in HR will definitely not lead to problems down the road.

[-] alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org 33 points 1 year ago

What paper is that?

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Not on a theoretical level, but how would you practically have to pay costs, access specialist doctors?

[-] alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org 38 points 1 year ago

If this passes, smartphone manufacturers are going to register their devices as religious artifacts

[-] alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org 34 points 1 year ago

I feel like the fediverse would be better off without a lot of current X users

[-] alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org 257 points 1 year ago

All companies seem to be doing their best lately to cure us of our social media addiction.

[-] alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org 32 points 1 year ago

And people in the comments discussing how Lemmy users should talk less about reddit.

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[-] alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org 63 points 1 year ago

People have been hailing WFH after COVID as a lasting change. But it has always been clear that non fundamentally remote companies will never accept this as a permanent solution.

Hybrid is a really bad in between, the advantages seem marginal (more flexible remote days, less needed office space) to the disadvantages (people will still be mostly remote in meetings, commute times still a factor, work environments need to be duplicated between home and office).

[-] alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org 33 points 1 year ago

I never knew I needed API fanfiction

[-] alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org 36 points 1 year ago

If they can talk they can pay rent

[-] alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org 39 points 1 year ago

Ubuntu is fine and I actually am on Ubuntu after using Arch for many years

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