duh

that's why they tell you the Marshmellow test means success in life, silly

my last boss would send me emails at 1-2am... I think she was trying to look like a hard worker.

in reality she would put me into useless meetings to micromanage me... then call a girlfriend of hers and talk about gossip for 2 hours while telling me to click buttons on my end... which never resulted in whatever thing she wanted to "teach" me... so she would get frustrated and then blame me for not knowing how to do something on their system which was never even made clear to me what that thing was supposed to be. often running into overtime for the both of us, which at least the company paid out this time

but she sent emails at 1-2 am so it meant she was a good worker

never happened to me actually

@molaram ok

your personality has not been intriguing

@donkulator Don't be silly, it's impossible to fix things with shell commands.

I wrote java code with no tests, went into production for basically a monopoly in a sector company in Canada. Ran for years. Never a bug.

Was paid in basically minimum wage. Hardass boss guy memed about me being perfect. I wasn't allowed to write tests actually, our CEO told me he wanted to charge the client "extra" for that. Anyway then me asking for a raise makes me too much trouble. Wasn't even making industry standard pay for the title I had for 3 years by that point... Ah, life. You can be baller doesn't mean anybody else gives a fuck.

Why try. Why bother. You can make the impossible happen but it is worthless.

@molaram what

I don't know how to answer that lol

is this a bot. where did you come from?

wonder why everyone is coming back all at once

dunno if true and funnily has AI cadence: https://fxtwitter.com/Ric_RTP/...

@D-4got10-01 people find something a great bully target and post about them on a forum to sneer about it

@Lensflare if you wanna be an expert on the human condition you need to have seen everything of the human condition

software is 1 and 0 at base,
then it's CPU instructions,
then it's programming tokens,
then it's language features,
then it's design patterns or patterns as a general since I think design patterns is really lame (and you can just invent your own)
but still there's mostly a limit even to the design patterns you can design. Few people ever make any new ones. And those design pattern books, at least in my opinion, are very novice compared to design patterns I've used and discovered on my own (but I am a crazy person)
either case this makes software to me basically a solved problem
other than how companies want to force you to learn their shit because market capture; business, business, business.

the artists don't care about market capture or business for the most part. but you can't itemize the human condition in this way. It's intuitive with no baseline 😭

@Lensflare I can't tell if that was a parody message cuz it sounded psychotic? lmao

ok if you don't wanna engage with me don't post on my rants to engage with me... my god how are you such a lolcow

are you having separation anxiety and acting out lmao

@whimsical He only copied your greatness anyway, pffft. I was no better to be honest but I just have self control issues when exciting things are afoot.

@Lensflare are you trying to start a war or is this your spectacular social skills on display again?

by the way it was clearly a joke. there's another guy on this site less active than me that links his blog all the time. ain't like I'm selling directions to scam businesses. and yet you're taking this opportunity to start things, to domineer your way over someone. do you care of merit or just to shove your boot down on somebody?

@cafecortado They seem to be doing quite well for themselves, it's almost like they're running the asylum

And they say robots don't have the needs of humans

@Lensflare I mean I could make a bot army the same way and put you on the "spam list"? Gross threat.

@CaptainRant eh I specifically didn't pursue higher education because it didn't seem necessary to me / I can learn faster on my own. Surprised people judge me for a lower degree. I think it shouldn't matter.

Character is definitely where people go wrong I think. I rather work with an honest person than a scumbag. But for whatever reason others don't make the same judgement. I guess getting away with things and bullying others is valued higher than actually getting things done.

fake clickbait written by AI

Well that's why we all went to school. To make the "Factory Man" in uniform. That _was_ the intention. You should be excited they were so competent at their goal!

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There was an intern my company had eventually hired. The guy had hair well past his shoulders; probably grew it for years. He was quite a character, really alt and attended concerts all the time. Very sociable. Only non-insufferable person to talk to at the company parties when we'd all get drunk.

Anyway they hired him and as they hired him they told him to cut his hair; just sprang it up on him -- we just hired you, but reduce yourself or we'll go back on it, tehe.

He buzzcut his whole hair; bald. I was in horror. These people are soulless. Everything else this guy could offer meant nothing and he was worthless unless he looked and talked exactly as they wanted.

You wanna eat? Better play the game.

@b2plane

> nope sorry I'm anally virgin

could be the solution

(sorry, couldn't help myself. The vibes. THE VIBES)

I feel like b2plane could be a novel

I actually read one a bit back probably with the perfect vibe. 100% match

@D-4got10-01 I misinterpreted that as "kafka"

@Lensflare I subscribed to a guy claiming to smuggle psychological weapons into his writing but to me it seems like I keep dispensing the most Machiavellian tactics on these poor sods. Somehow it's making me quite popular actually. I feel overwhelmed by the attention. Strangers now come up to me to ask me for advice on unrelated topics..

I needed to make money but I always get distracted. I need help.

All I need to do is just charge them the stupid money but I always get distracted. This is just like my job. Was my being underpaid my fault all along?

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Also wtf I suck at grammar? I can't post anything official because I'm horrified what if the grammar is wrong. Humans aren't like computers that throw out errors though because you got something technically incorrect. The chance of falling into a psychosis of a subculture is so high. I might become exactly what I criticize. Oh god the horror.

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I'm dumb. I just remembered so many people used to ask me for advice...

they've always had that, just most companies were too incompetent to test it and then the culture kept being mad about it and I don't know

AND I WAS INSTRUCTED NOT TO DO THOSE VERSIONS OF SOFTWARE ACTUALLY. THEY BARRED ME FROM MAKING THEM

AND IT WAS ONLY "MONTHS" BECAUSE THAT IS ALL THAT WAS IN THE PIPELINE

it's not like the work was fucking hard. they were just fucking dicks. dumb ones at that.

@CaptainRant yeah that's how companies feel like to me

be responsive at any time to work unpaid but you're too much a social hassle if you ask for a raise once a year at review time

you're essential and we will fume and fuss if you say no because only you can do it, but also worthless and replaceable and have so much room to grow when we talk about you at the Christmas parties. Have you tried growing me mother fucker or you just gonna complain? I know I'm not allowed to complain somehow but why the hell are you allowed to say such horrible things about me like it's my fault then?

manager says please do this favour for me I promise I'll replace you on this project later then just forgets it, all the while when you quit they tell you you're unprofessional for "abandoning your projects". motherfucker you abandon me. I didn't even abandon them! I wrote wikis and guides unprompted and even did several "possible to be requested" months in advance versions of software before I left!

yeah them asking you to have all the skills is insane to me. Abusive spouse energy. Accept me first then I'll put in effort. Not a slave with no reward here.

err equating personal relationships with work ones may not have been the best choice there but whatever

you know what I mean. Friend who always just wants you to be doing their activities, always wants to borrow money, never gives it back kind of energy

what

management gave me anxiety... the software was fine

kicker is my intuition for what management should've been was correct, when I ended up researching it afterwards... but for whatever reason I had no power by which to make correct, efficient things reality -.-

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ok on topic. first principles / axioms?

I think a lot of people do a lot of things that are useless to be doing. a lot of software and libraries also underneath are using the exact same concepts, the details on top just shift with some specificity. people judge your competence by the specificity but really it should be for your underlying intuition / understanding. the more you can reduce things to symbolic axioms the less cognitive overhead it is for you and the faster you can do stuff (at an alarming x10 mythic rate; you have compression powers now harry)

... and then you'll run into social problems because nobody else sees this and thinks you're wrong / a moron or whatever -.-