Doing something political for years and then NOT doing something political is not “politically neutral,” you’re actively decided to make a politically motivated decision instead of simply continue with existing behavior.

That’s because every version of Windows since XP has been kind of dogshit

Oh I have literally thought of this too. Maybe a bit more like Cops or if The Office was a real paper company office… but at a software company. So many fires to put out, so many blockers, so much drama between design / pm / dev / qa / execs, etc. Launch date blockers. Post-release hotfix nightmares. It could work

C# was originally J++ which was originally Java++ until Sun sued MS.

When we finally onboarded the D365 ERP replacement, management wanted to run perf testing on it told them we could do it in JMeter, and we already had JMeter code that we’d used for the older systems, and we’d learned more than enough from including it in integration automation, that I was sure we could do it.

Instead they hired two chodes from an agency and told them to use some odd tool. Literally a month into that project one of the contractors asked me straight up why we weren’t just using JMeter.

They eventually cut those guys because they weren’t able to produce, and then went with some kookball Akamai solution (Cloudtest?) They didn’t even seem to realize that by going with that solution, they were going to be beholden to paying Akamai every time they wanted to run it. They somehow managed to cajole Akamai into giving us a standalone version of the tool, but they didn’t seem to comprehend that when you run it that way you don’t get the cloud.

It’s funny, someone asked me the other day why I quit that job, and I’m now suddenly starting to remember why.

It was actually a pretty good company, it just wasn’t a software company, so its tech decisions were often really bonkers. But that aside, it was actually a good company, and part of me kicks myself for leaving it – I’d probably still be working there four years later.

I might have needed a lot of therapy in the meantime, though

Salesmen

Frankly it’s a bit like HyperCard.

One of the things we learned early on in trying to integrate a D365 system into our UI integration test automation, was that when you changed pages, the previous page was actually still in the DOM and so if you didn’t update your locators to the new “context” or screen, you’d be trying to interact with things from two screens ago. I dunno honestly what they would have done without someone like me who could actually RE that. The guy that had seniority over me was completely lost.

Imagine JS and C# had a baby, and it was mentally challenged.

We used it for ERP, including sales, CSR, and inventory. But we still had a separate WMS, and we had to build glue to sync the WMS inventory data with the D365 data, bidirectionally.

Pray you never do

Yeppers. When I worked on a D365 transition we were upgrading from a 1980s era DOS based thing (D3 aka Pick). We literally had like one of the last Pick developers left on earth. He ended up training his two kids on the system so they could take over for him. They all ended up having to learn X++ instead. I wonder which was worse to deal with.

I spent the better part of a year and a half writing automation for an integrated stack that included D365. (RSAT wasn’t an option since we had to also interact with other systems and sql databases and what not to perform end-to-end flows across multiple systems.) It was literally the biggest resource and time suck of all the stuff we had to interact with – and we had to interact with some really hoky stuff. But D365 took the cake. At least two people quit over it.

Thanks for this response, I’ve actually gone and bookmarked your instance for a later look. I didn’t really find an instance like that on the lemmy server list for whatever reason, so this is nice, appreciate it.

what was the point of yours?

Not sure if it’s a question. I was looking into PT, but there aren’t hardly any instances that are 1. open and 2. have much activity. Also, it seemed like you only got the content on the instance, it wasn’t easy at all to find non-local content.

(Also, most of it was playthroughs)

Ha… He was the Lib Dem poster boy for a good decade. And they’re something akin to pro-business libertarians. I wonder what Lib Dem Dep PM Clegg would have said to this!

you can go into the app and literally see your request history

HomerOS here we come

US Republicans be like “ANTI-BUSINESS! Enjoying communism?”

Wish someone had done this for Reader