Russia: Spends months trying to capture a random city 25 miles from their border. Ukrainian defenses were somehow “missing” (sabotage). Stalemate.

Ukraine: Spends days capturing a specific important natural gas objective. Russian defenses are also missing (lazy). Success.

This may shock and amaze you but…

there is more than one user for your product. If you don’t know that, it sounds like you either haven’t done a user survey or you haven’t created the correct user profiles (based on that survey).

Creating a “perfect UI” without asking users what they want is not good UX. It’s just masturbation. The user survey tells you that people want A B C, etc. and in which order. You should know exactly how your changes are going to be received when you release them.

Imagine a restaurant that doesn’t ask you what you want. Instead the chef tells you “This is the best food possible” and just makes what they want. That’s what developing without a user survey is like.

It isn’t particularly hard to call this out. Just say “I haven’t done anything since Friday.” And leave it at that.

Be comfortable with silence.

PMs act that way because people above them ask for updates regularly. Bad PMs don’t know how to push back. If you need things done faster, the answer is usually “we need more resources”.

Are you on Lemmy for money? I have bad news for you…

He said, on a rapidly growing reddit alternative.

They are selling a small amount and keeping the rest. I have no great love for Reddit, but it’s normal and smart.

But it doesn’t even say “Sign in” in German. It says “Das Bootton” because someone thought it would be funny and never changed it.

Actually the front end stuff is more like “we need to make the ‘sign in’ button bigger. No one can click it because it’s tiny, and it’s in German.”

It’s not serious bot creators that you need to worry about. Trolls use the “adjective noun number” format on their new accounts. Restricting those users, accounts less than 3 days old, and accounts with less than zero karma will virtually eliminate trolling.

If trolls had patience and foresight, they wouldn’t be trolls.

My friend, you need to get some exercise and some sleep. Those problems are all worse for most other jobs. That’s what I’m comparing it to.

If you’ve ever worked in a different industry you know that tech jobs are easier and pay better. That’s just a fact.

Software developers are so confusing. You have a physically easy job that pays well and makes people think you’re smart. That’s almost as good as it gets. “Capitalism” is shoveling investor money down your throats.

Software developers didn’t really exist in the USSR, but the computer scientists that did wanted to escape. Most software developers in the Third World now would love to get a huge First World salary. Recognize what you have.

Don’t wish for knowledge, wish for wisdom. Of course then you will just realize that you should have just wished to be lucky.

Why do programmers complain about expectations all the time? Just say “It needs more time” or “that’s not possible unless we change a lot of things”. Set the expectations, don’t accept them. You’re the expert. What are they gonna do? Do it themselves?

Ignorance? Ego? Delusions of grandeur?

So you have met top programmers? Then why are you asking?

Be more concise.

What’s reddit?

Defeat? Do you think a forum exists independent of its users? If so, Spez has already brainwashed you.

Reddit can 100% make any changes they want to their site. That doesn’t mean they win. Digg did the same the same thing and flopped. Myspace did what they wanted and flopped.

Users determine what wins by their presence. Do not give a fuck about Reddit.

Protests didn’t lose. They made lots of people leave who never would have.

I was a mod. Now Reddit doesn’t have my free work anymore. Fuck em.

Same thing happened to me. Admins must have gotten a message to do that or something. First time ever was during the protests.

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