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'Pay or Okay' explained: Why more and more websites make you pay for your privacy - noyb (noyb.eu)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

Throwing more bodies at a situation does NOT solve the situation faster or more efficiently; seriously, this shit is the most remedial, 101-level shit in pretty much any field where man-hours are a measuring metric.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Either you get:

  • many engineers --> lots of money
  • some good/very good/excellent engineers --> lots of money

Either way, it's expensive.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That's not what I said or even remotely implied.

If you want a good back end that isn't bloated you can't use cheap contractors or junior engineers - you need someone who knows what they're doing.

It's a fight I'm constantly fighting at work. They finally dropped all the super cheap contractors that were trying to hard code a list of 20 identical entries that differed only by a single field. The contractors who thought the peak of architectural design was decomposition of any method more than 5 lines long into confusingly named functions that had an additional 10 layers of decomposition to them. The cheap contractors who thought that documentation was a waste of time and that the code was "self documenting".

These contractors weren't paid to care - I don't blame them for phoning it in. But if you want a system to work well and be cheap to run you pay your engineers well or inspire such devotion that FOSS is possible.

But the fact is the overwhelming majority of large, optimized and successful FOSS is funded by megacorps

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The cheap contractors who thought that documentation was a waste of time and that the code was “self documenting”.

Unfortunately, there are expensive engineers who think the same 😦 I don't know how they pass technical interviews or probationary periods.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Definitely - hiring isn't easy.

But you'll never get value for money from engineers who don't care, and you have a 0% chance of a cheap contractor caring.

Again - I don't blame them. They shouldn't care. The company clearly doesn't respect them.

But it's a false economy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Again - I don’t blame them. They shouldn’t care. The company clearly doesn’t respect them.

True. Some people aren't paid enough to care 👍

But it’s a false economy.

Is that a typo or a term I don't know?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not a typo - a false economy is a decision that saves money in the short term but wastes more than it saves in the long term.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Thank you, learned something new!

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

says a thing

"no I didn't say that thing"

average day on feddit 🙄

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

optimizing backend services is expensive because good engineers are expensive

um acktually you can't build services faster by hiring tons of people 🤓🤓

Reading comprehension: you lack it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

That's probably why he wrote "expensive" and not "more".

[–] [email protected] -4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

It's almost like he pluralized something implying "go get more". I'm not playing semantic gymnastics with you tech"bro" ballbags this morning

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Expensive engineers is a category dipshit.

You add an S to a noun in English to show it's a category or grouping instead of a specific individual.

Learn to fucking read. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_category

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Idk I immediately understood what he meant, no need to be so rude about it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Probably having a bad day and is angry at something else, but lashing out online. Happens all the time.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Seriously, you can't have nine pregnant women and expect one baby in one month.