• anguo@piefed.caEnglish
    163·
    2 days ago

    The chinese name just says “Common Generic Chinese name”

  • owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca
    34·
    2 days ago

    Is this the cast of Ocean’s 7 or something?

    The lower six carry the team for most of the film. At the crucial moment, they’re all straining to crack the highest security system known to man, and just as the team is about to get locked out, the first guy walks in and types in the password. “Oh yeah, I sent a phishing email to the CEO before we started. Execs are pretty stupid.”

    • rockerface🇺🇦@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      26·
      2 days ago

      This is one of the moments I liked about Mr Robot. The security breaches were like 99% human factor/social engineering instead of stereotypical Hollywood “I’m in” hacker magic.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    79·
    2 days ago

    Difference in pay scale between all of these people is maybe $20k, and “you” aren’t even in the low end.

    Turns out just being able to show up at the office interview wearing khaki pants and making eye contact with your future boss counts for more than optimizing graph trees via psychic technomancy.

    Christ, that poor Intel engineer is probably out on the unemployment line right now

    • FosterMolasses@leminal.spaceEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      Turns out just being able to show up at the office interview wearing khaki pants and making eye contact with your future boss counts for more than optimizing graph trees via psychic technomancy.

      Christ, that poor Intel engineer is probably out on the unemployment line right now

      As someone with a degree in CompSci I hate how true this is. I knew so many brilliant programmers during my course that I had constant imposter syndrome… and 5 years out some of the ones I once regarded as the most talented still live with their parents because they can’t pass the turing test equivalent of an interview lol

      One person I knew in particular was so physically incapable of getting through a single conversation without whipping out some pretentious insult that he’d make both Gregory House and Sheldon Cooper look like sycophants by contrast, hahaha

    • aaaaaaaaargh@feddit.org
      501·
      2 days ago

      I am pretty much Tharg and Thargs don’t make a lot of money because we have better things to do.

      • Venator@lemmy.nz
        9·
        2 days ago

        Sometimes Thargs make money if the better thing they decide to do happens to be commercially valuable and they don’t happen to decide to make it open source: e.g. Gabe Newell

    • squaresinger@lemmy.world
      111·
      2 days ago

      Tbh, I would hire none of the competition.

      Nobody wants crazies who think they are superstars.

      Any decent business wants dependable people who will follow the processes and work in a team. If you can’t do that because you think you are above that you won’t last long.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        2 days ago

        Any decent business wants dependable people who will follow the processes and work in a team.

        I mean, they want people who can do the job. And most businesses don’t need a guy who can program fantastically complex solutions in obscure languages at a breakneck pace.

        They also don’t want to pay above the “going rate”, which is inevitably less than what the market actually demands.

        So while programming contests are fun, they don’t do much to improve your pay scale. Much better to climb the management chain and lead programmers than excelling at the actual work. Then you get to take credit for whole teams and land an outsized bonus as a result.

        • squaresinger@lemmy.world
          5·
          2 days ago

          Tbh, I’ve worked with self-professed “superstar programmers” so far. In every case their cockiness, ther “I’m always right” attitude and their inability to receive criticism or to adjust in any way to the team lead to major issues.

          These “superstar programmers” are much more likely to produce live bugs (because they don’t listen to anyone, don’t follow procedure like code reviews and stuff and after a time nobody wants to invest time into reviewing their code properly because it always ends in a fight). They are also really harmful to team cohesion. Their behavior usually ends with most of the team quitting unless they are fired before that happens.

          Programming is teamwork. It by definition needs to be unless you work alone. Someone who can’t work well in a team is a bad programmer.

          We have a superstar programmer in our sister team. Both teams work on the same project but in different sections, but there’s a core area where we overlap. That guy recently caused a massive 5h outage of our customer-facing website, which is our main access point for much of the business. We have customers in the order of 100 million that couldn’t access the website.

          What had appened is that our superstar programmer worked in the middle of the night when nobody was online. He made a non-urgent but critical change and pushed to production without code review or testing by the QAs, because, you know, he’s a superstar and he doesn’t need to follow processes. Our process for a change like that would have been that he needs a code review from his team and from our team (since the change affects us as well), and then it would have to be tested by their and our QAs in the preview env before and on production after the push.

          There’s around 20 domains for our website for different countries and different client companies. Our superstar only tested one of them after the push and that one was working, so he didn’t check the rest. Turns out he made a simple typo and all other domains weren’t accessible, until the rest of the team members came online at ~9 in the morning and noticed the massive outage. We then spent two hours trying to troubleshoot what exactly went wrong until someone found and debugged his merge request, because of course he didn’t even inform anyone that he did the change. (He didn’t even create a ticket for it, even though our processes require that.)

          Superstar programmers are great at contests but terrible workers.

          It’s pretty much the same as why you wouldn’t hire an artisan instagram bricklayer influencer to work on a block of flats.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        2 days ago

        Intel implemented significant layoffs in 2025 as part of a major restructuring under new CEO Lip-Bu Tan, aiming to reduce its core workforce by about 25,000 (roughly 15-20%) by year-end to streamline operations and cut expenses

        Then you’ve got Kalshi… paying $110-140k, then working you to the bone on Christmas Eve.

        Like, you’re better off as some schmick front end developer at a midcap company than a “top tier” developer at a code mill in Silicon Valley.