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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.catomemes@lemmy.worldThank you Ubisoft!
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    4 hours ago

    I worked at a company run by a SWEngineer.

    He was code-smart for code, but really bad for business.

    You need to get a real CEO who does management, but keep that person in firm check by mandating half the board be stacked by engineers. Even as advisory roles, like if your company makes widgets you should have some Serious Fucking widget people dominating the board for big decisions.

    “You make one thing” is like “you had one job.”

    (And if you make two things so disparate, spin one off into a sub)


  • There is – jabber and jingle. And for a ver-ry brief few weeks, Google’s jabber/jingle worked openly with Facebook’s, and everyone could message each other. And then BOTH arbitrarily broke it with some sparkle-junkie resume-bait software 'up’grade and neither worked with anything else after that.

    It was glorious.













  • I like Will Smith.

    My former peer talks about Will Smith a lot. I was working in a city where they film a lot of stuff, and Will would travel before filming started. He’d come in, book a bit of the mayor’s time, and thank him for letting them film. He’d waste his day touring the city and seeing local groups as a drop-in guest, and then bail. The guy really worked on his image and PR and seemed to come off as generally a good guy … before.


  • If you want to sell 3D printed stuff, sell it on an appropriate platform and for fuck’s sake, sell things that you actually have the rights to print and sell.

    I’m so relieved that there’s an appropriate platform!

    I need some brackets to mount a gadget I ebayed as a spare. The vendor included tapped holes for mounting, but never sold the brackets. About 3 designs out there offer a solid and reliable mounting solution.

    Each one a bit that would fit in a 1990 drugstore film cylinder, only 40c to being and us$71 shipping to the V3L, it seems.

    There is no library in my area still maintaining a running 3d printer. I have no contacts nerdier than me who have a working printer.

    Where is this place that I can get my brackets? I can’t justify a $250 printer just for 4 bracket pieces!