Hey folks! I think this request is right up this comm’s alley. I’m sure that we all know bogo sort but, what other terrible/terribly inefficient algorithms, software architecture, or design choices have you been horrified/amused by?...
I unironically had a screening interview with a recruiter that asked “If you were creating a startup, would you use microservices?”. She didn’t like that my answer was “It depends, I don’t have enough information to answer”.
It’s important to understand that this is not just individual greed. The problem is that greed is ingrained into the system. Capitalism simply does not function without greed.
The only reason shareholders will move their capital is if the company is expected to grow. What is the point in risking your money if there is no profit? This search for infinite growth is what leads to the death of products. It creates different objectives and incentives than simply making a good product that users will pay for and providing a steady job for employees. A situation where the company does not grow but continues to make a good product and pay its workers a decent wage is an acceptable one for everyone except for shareholders.
Executives are just the middle layer between investors and workers. They make sure that investors get their return on investment, since investors don’t really give a shit about the product or even how it operates, they just care about the numbers on the balance sheet. And as someone noted in another comment, they are paid mostly in company stock so that the interests of shareholders become partially their own.
Top 10 on the leaderboard get boosted in job searches.
But in all seriousness, this is why searching continuous growth ruins products. LinkedIn had a decent thing going as a job board a few years ago. Instead of focusing on that experience (which is still surprisingly underdeveloped) it added all this useless shit and became a Facebook with a paper thin mask of professionalism. It is now a place used mostly to spread toxic corporate culture and I dread its logo any time I open it to search for a job.
In a functioning society these fucks would have been sued into bankruptcy for suppressing those studies in the 80s. In our society they can continue to make record profits every year
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Dr Love found the wolves have altered immune systems similar to cancer patients undergoing radiation treatment, but more significantly she also identified specific parts of the animals’ genetic information that seemed resilient to increased cancer risk.
Sounds like more than just started monitoring them
Anti-consumerism is bad because it would expose the fact that our economy is overproducing shit we don’t need, so we would need a massive reorganization of society. You can tell who that is bad for.
There aren’t really that many definitions for OOP; it’s a very consolidated paradigm. This is a short but comprehensive guide: www.baeldung.com/java-oop
Academically, you’re right. For practical reasons, you probably don’t care how Simula, E, Lisp and Smalltalk (languages mentioned in that 20 year old article) implement it. This seemed more like a beginner question so I think the Java definition is a good starting point.
The 2013 StackExchange post [^1] describes what is now commonly called an “archetype” based ECS architecture that was implemented as compile time archetypes in the author’s open source project in Feb 2018 ^3. A similar ECS model was described later in the June 2018 patent filed by Unity ^2 and active since 2020....
Yeah, I forgot to mention in my original post that ECS was extensively described and already in use by many private commercial engines (like Overwatch) at the time when the patent came out. Absolutely ridiculous patent that shows why the whole system is broken.
This is the point of patents. Privatize technology that would benefit all and then ask rent from people using it. Then make money without doing shit, except for the odd enforcement (through lawsuits). Just feudalism updated to the modern age.
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Hey folks! I think this request is right up this comm’s alley. I’m sure that we all know bogo sort but, what other terrible/terribly inefficient algorithms, software architecture, or design choices have you been horrified/amused by?...
Dwarf Fortress creator blasts execs behind brutal industry layoffs: 'I think they're horrible… greedy, greedy people' (www.pcgamer.com)
LinkedIn plans to add gaming to its platform (techcrunch.com)
Exxon CEO blames public for failure to fix climate change (thehill.com)
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Trump hawks $399 golden sneakers after court-ordered fine (www.dw.com)
Thong-wearing protesters bare their bums in opposition to calls for G-string ban (news.sky.com)
Codeberg.org Opinions? (codeberg.org)
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Tucker Carlson excites more controversy with sympathetic Warmaster Abaddon interview (newsthump.com)
Mr Bean actor Rowan Atkinson blamed for slow electric car sales (news.sky.com)
Poster of 'homoerotic' Jesus unleashes chaos (nationalpost.com)
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What is OOP, really? Why so many different definitions?
There are so many definitions of OOP out there, varying between different books, documentation and articles....
Microsoft is seeking a software architect to port Microsoft 365 to Rust (www.techspot.com)
How many watch lists am I on now?
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The Onion Staff to Go on Strike Wednesday Barring 11th Hour Deal (www.thewrap.com)
Zed is now open source (zed.dev)
Unity owned ECS patent uses techniques described in 2013 Stack Exchange post (github.com)
The 2013 StackExchange post [^1] describes what is now commonly called an “archetype” based ECS architecture that was implemented as compile time archetypes in the author’s open source project in Feb 2018 ^3. A similar ECS model was described later in the June 2018 patent filed by Unity ^2 and active since 2020....