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  • He sounds like a total douchebag with sour grapes. He took time to punch down at people who aren’t as privileged as he is.

    Here’s the full quote:

    And here’s another thing: I pitched a Star Trek show to Paramount and I was on Zoom with the showrunners with all the shows and spent a lot of time talking to [Kurtzman]… He, as a person, is a really nice guy. But at the same time, those shows are shit. He is a nice guy, but they didn’t accept my pitch so, you know, fuck ’em.”

    Imagine having a movie directed by Ridley Scott, a massive Ryan Gosling hit, millions of dollars… and you still spend time complaining about not being hired as a Star Trek writer.

    Plus you’re so insecure about yourself, you have to describe the shows as “shit.” On a podcast called Critical Drinker.

    It’s pathetic and shows what Andy Weir is really made of.

    Unfortunately, there’s an entire cult of fanboys for his work, so this will affect nothing.



  • On the other hand I’ve never made any bones about the fact that I work to develop good products and if someone can make money on that good for them, but I fight for the best design for end users I can.

    Your entire comment nailed it for me. Thank you for reading between the lines of my snarky annoyance and expressing it more eloquently.

    I also love internal tooling and worked at shitty, bizarre places (General Dynamics, for one. Speaking of “places you’ve never heard of,” right?), and literally the entire reason to work there is to try make it better for the people who use the thing. Not doing that is preposterous to me!

    Somehow the original author ignored the only thing I would care about. Or it’s there and I missed it.




  • If I were a better developer, would I have worked on more products people love? No

    There you go, justify your shitty work.

    If you were a better person, you would work on better products.

    You choose where you work and what you work on. The fact that you went from Zendesk working on a shitty product to Microsoft working on a shitty product is definitely about you.

    In fact, a reliable engineer ought to be comfortable working on products people hate, because engineers work for the company, not for users.

    “It’s ok that I work at shitty companies! They pay me more”














  • That’s correct! There are a few caveats at the beginning of the article.

    I thought this one was most interesting:

    This may not be completely representative of all Linux gamers either. But I’d wage this is actually a good predictor where the market is going to shift. We saw first that Manjaro was getting the boot here first, before going under pretty much everywhere.

    These two correlate more directly to what you mean:

    This may not be representative of all types of Linux users. I’m sure this is not what your AWS architect uses on EC2.

    There may be some additional biases, due to whoever used ProtonDB.