GissaMittJobb

GissaMittJobb , 5 months ago to linuxmemes in Some inspiring quotes from our supreme leader

It seems that we are in agreement, no? That a lot of car commuters behave like children?

GissaMittJobb , 5 months ago to linuxmemes in Some inspiring quotes from our supreme leader

I’m not a right winger, nor acting as one.

I'll concede that I don't know what political affiliations you have, but you are definitely acting like many of them do.

If you're treating adults as if they were kids

Pedagogy does not refer to teaching children, it refers to teaching in general. Teaching others when working with software is expected, and it is expected to do so in an effective manner.

Also, Torvalds is a kernel developer. He is not a teacher.

The fact that you think that developers are not expected to teach is telling that you either don't work as one, or have only worked in ineffective organizations.

Side note: it just clicked me that you guys are being culturally insensitive and imperialistic, given that a lot of Torvalds' no-bullshit behaviour is likely partially cultural in nature.

Now you're just grasping at straws, and this continues the trend of acting like a right-winger which I mentioned before.

For what it's worth, I've worked with plenty of Finnish developers - none of them consider yelling at their peers to be an important part of their culture.

GissaMittJobb , 5 months ago to linuxmemes in Some inspiring quotes from our supreme leader

I don't think car commuters necessarily make for a good example of adult behavior - in fact, the opposite tends to be true.

GissaMittJobb , 5 months ago to linuxmemes in Some inspiring quotes from our supreme leader

There's no need to yell at someone to convey what's wrong with their code.

None whatsoever, in fact.

GissaMittJobb , 5 months ago to linuxmemes in Some inspiring quotes from our supreme leader

This comment is giving me a lot of 'rightwinger calling others snowflakes'-vibes.

Did you know that yelling is not a particularly effective technique pedagogically?

GissaMittJobb , 5 months ago to linuxmemes in Some inspiring quotes from our supreme leader

Did you know that you can be diligent without yelling at people?

Linus has full control over what code makes it into the kernel, yelling is not required to accomplish that.

GissaMittJobb , 5 months ago to linuxmemes in Some inspiring quotes from our supreme leader

Did you know that it's entirely possible to criticize someone else's code without yelling at them?

GissaMittJobb , 5 months ago to linuxmemes in Some inspiring quotes from our supreme leader

It's disappointing to see this kind of stuff still happening. Adults do not act this way. Do better, Linus.

GissaMittJobb , 5 months ago to Technology in Raspberry Pi is planning a London IPO, but its CEO expects “no change” in focus

I wouldn't necessarily read too much into this.

I think most people's aversions to the concept of IPOs stems from the fact that it lies at the end of the not-too-uncommon lifecycle of VC-backed companies:

• Get VC investment
• Subsidize your product using said investment
• Grow like hell on account of handing out things at a too-low price
• Prepare for IPO by worsening the deal for customers to improve financials (also known as enshittification)
• Use IPO money to pay off VCs and leave both them and founders with a large chunk of money

Post-IPO the company has to abide by the regular rules of being a company, meaning that they never really re-capture what it was like when they had a large stack of free money to make all deals sweeter than the competition.

All this to say is that the damage is done once you raise VC capital. Raspberry Pi has raised one fairly small round, so there's potentially some damage done there, but it's way less than your average tech startup did throughout the years, so this doesn't necessarily have to mean that everything will go to hell now.

GissaMittJobb , 5 months ago to Technology in Raspberry Pi is planning a London IPO, but its CEO expects “no change” in focus

Google IPO'd back in 2004. Do you really consider that to be the pivotal point in Google's history?

Reddit hasn't even IPO'd yet.

GissaMittJobb , 5 months ago to Technology in IBM to Managers: Move Near an Office or Leave Company

That's the intent - it's a layoff in disguise, with a discount on the severance package.

GissaMittJobb , 5 months ago to Fuck Cars in It makes cycling easier #shorts - YouTube

My god, what kind of AI-generated monstrosity was that video?

GissaMittJobb , 5 months ago to 196 in Chicken cooking rule

Well, one could probably deduce that a lower internal temperature than the instant point is sufficient to cook chicken, and use that in combination with a thermometer when cooking chicken.

In fact, that's what I've done after learning this, bringing my chicken breasts only up to ~68 C (~155 F), resulting in a vastly more enjoyable chicken breast.

So I'd argue the opposite - this is very helpful for real world cooking.

GissaMittJobb , 5 months ago to Technology in Tech Employee Who Went Viral for Filming Her Firing Has No Regrets

I wouldn't say that this was truly a last in/first out-situation, on account of them claiming the firing was performance-related. Any quality of last in/first out is also probably accidental in this case, if my understanding of tech company layoffs is more or less correct.

GissaMittJobb , 5 months ago to Technology in Tech Employee Who Went Viral for Filming Her Firing Has No Regrets

You could just do what other parts of the world do and prohibit firing without cause, and introduce some rules for how businesses are allowed to lay off when the need to reduce headcount arises. Last-in/first-out could be one such rule - it's what we have in Sweden.