Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

...we'll still boost the cries of revolution. I think that at the core we all know that we know nothing, or at least know that we can prove nothing. Was Steve Mellor right, or was Robert C. Martin right? ( I know it was Steve, but I can't prove it in a manner that doesn't cost a huge amount of money.) That is the price we pay for not making software metrics universal. That is why I harp on software metrics. The function point data is relevant.

I should probably wax poetic on software engineering in the Librem chat room I made, but none of the other members ever post a counterpoint. I have the same effect here, but do occasionally get a boost. Maybe if eveRyone is so agreeable, I should write a book, but OOA Book is pending and I haven't quite raised the courage to piss off my customers. What price courage? Many of us are unwilling to sacrifice meaningful employment in the name of software engineering rightousness, but...

Joe Abercrombe gets it wrong in his chapter, "The Life of a Drinker", because he describes an alcoholic. Only 10% of heavy drinkers are alcoholics. Alcoholism is an addiction, whereas heavy drinking is a choice. How good or bad a choice all depends upon behaviors associated with the drinker. Some would say always bad due to health risks, but not everybody wants to live to their best potential age.

HR in all companies should adopt an approach of writing rejection letters to applicants. The worst part of applying for a job is not getting any feedback on why you never got a call. Even if the company is using AI to screen applications, the AI could issue a rejection, saying what keywords the application was missing.

I think the fact that my coworker texted me to ask about the progress of another coworker is adequate demonstration of why I turn off work chat.

Windows has always been the worst operating system, but when you combine it with Azure, you get something much, much worse. Why does Microsoft suck so much? #windowssucks #microsoftsucks #fmwl(fuck my work life)

Coworker complaining about me permanently setting my chat status to away. He's lucky that I even bother to have it turned on. Has no one ever read Peopleware (DeMarco and Lister)?

Chat has to come second only to open offices as a productivity killer. At least we don't have to resort to disabling the speakers in the ceiling anymore.

So far, all the worker organizing books I've read have all concentrated on non-professional work (excluding nurses and teachers), but in the USA, professional jobs are seeing the same type of events. i.e., they mirror the decline of the good paying factory jobs. Worker organizing isn't done much in these types of jobs. The reason might be that the pay scale leads many to fell bad about complaining, but with salaries starting to dip into actual poverty levels, that should be changing.