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How do you think tooltip hover works on mobile?

Why do we need to explain what a thing is or does on every site? Are JavaScript devs seeing video games and the key takeaway is everybody loves the tutorial where they’re told W moves forward? Or are they doing wacky JavaScript devs stuff like making pageup forward because it contains word “up” so fixed another bug. Then patting themselves on the back.

Just display the text information. Let me print it. Use consistent designs. Don’t intercept my clicks.

I could do an hour long standup rant just about how you guys need to STOP intercepting my clicks. In fact I’ll narrow it down to just Microsoft. They continuously find new ways to block and obstruct clicks. Once windows toast notifications got mostly fixed they reinvented toast notifications in yet another parallel duplicate feature with Teams toasts that spawn back to back to block critical button clicks.

I can’t believe even Apple has let this slip and iPhone is also subject to click blocking.

What are the rest of you devs doing all day?

This is the company that refers to its users as “daily active shitheads.” That’s a real quote.

They’re just screaming and pointing to anything they can so they can lock it down and gain more favorable data to sell and more legitimate accounts to show advertisers. That’s what it always is.

I’m never wrong and I’m tired of fake imposters devs telling me I am wrong at every corner of every single topic when I turn out to be right 100% of the time.

I keep trying to explain this to devs but there’s nothing out there except screaming over me about how great leetcode is or more recently it’s how great various AI uses are. Just completely ignorant isolated screaming to dismiss people like me putting in the work fix slop that steals all attention praise and career advancement or even getting through the slop hiring process.

This is directly caused by slop leetcode style hiring.

I have no doubt this finding is just the tip of the iceberg.

I want to see his reaction trying to type a message on the iPhone keyboard from anytime in the past 7 years.

Or navigate the random nonsensical grouping of stuff in settings that got so out of control they added a search bar or watch a pip video or really use anything. Every feature has some sloppy problem.

It used to be excusable as nobody else was trying and they’d be working to fix it. Now they just add a feature that’s sub par to things already out there, no innovation, and then it feels sloppy. Most things just don’t feel good to use down to the size and weight of phones now. Rather than fix the problem Apple just keeps copying the homework and claiming they can’t fix perfect.

Steve would be punching holes in the wall. Probably would stomp a hole through the floor to strangle the keyboard team

As I’ve gotten more senior turns out I was right to question it and we can actually talk to the original Microsoft devs now and they explain the whoopsie and how they had to keep it for backwards compatibility.

So then I ask why that excuse is valid, backwards compatibility, when many changes are frequently breaking core compatibility and active business flow (like New Outlook) and they go full hands off. Whoah I’m not the bad dev you’ll have to ask the new guys.

You can’t ask the new guys. And they’re hiding behind leetcode screens. It’s no wonder why these real problems don’t get fixed and we have new outlook. It’s the senior dev from earlier who now works there. All the real devs are retired.

Even when I do get a real answer from Microsoft on annoying things like the user home documents folder being used inappropriately by random programs or straight up forcefully deleted by onedrive in an oopsie, their answer they senior dev invented to give me or go on length about in a technical document or angry interview online is invalidated within 6 months when Microsoft just vibe pushes a random change that randomly alters how these things work in both not a good way and it invalidates their entire core argument.

Just like notepad updates as another example off the top of my head. There are dev interviews talking about how this is a very simple program because it needs to be 0 risk. Then it gets a Microsoft auth login with copilot.

The whole leetcode dev attitude and Microsoft culture really ruins the entire industry. We can’t have civil discussions. Everything turns into Nuh uh your argument is invalid because you don’t work at Microsoft.

Google Chrome famously having chrome install into appdata to exploit and bypass admin rights is a core memory. That’s clearly not the actual intention of that feature for 3rd parties to use in order to bypass having administrator authority. But now this is retconned by the devs as an intended feature because chrome ended up being good at the time at having to sort out the mess of deploying a 3rd party exception program on millions of locked down business computers would’ve been a nightmare.

It’s almost as if gatekeeping the correct developers isn’t working. So yeah somebody should get fired. They screened to prevent this. It wasn’t prevented.

Otherwise admit the screen doesn’t work and fire the gatekeepers who are relying on it and the inverted selection of correct engineers.

Then people got frustrated on both ends because some people got through it by just BSing, and people who lack any creative or big idea processing coming from the Microsoft Outlook team I imagine couldn’t comprehend a connection between abstract question discussion vs solving a math test. So they whined and threw a temper tantrum until the process was based around dev work (leetcode) but the Google abstract discussion was still the key part of the interview; you didn’t need to literally solve the leetcode question perfectly.

Then you needed to solve the leetcode question perfectly because people who BSed through that process by knowing just enough to mislead interviewers snuck in and turned out to be toxic employees. So you have to get the question 100% correct, character for character, or it’s wrong and you’re a toxic bad dev. But what if you memorize that question—- they’re all posted online now (thus defeating the purpose of it being an abstract discussion centered around programming)…. Well using statistics we’ll just determine that getting past 5-10 of them in a row is acceptable odds. And just in case that’s not good enough, we’ll have multiple prison guards in every interview. Each round new guards. If any guard doesn’t pass you for any reason or for no reason then you’re out.

Then people started writing books about this, making videos about it, selling courses. While they work at FAANG. They’re the ones interviewing so they can get you through the interview if you buy their course. Of course they’re not going to want to get rid of the process they’ve spent years mastering and make more money on the side than their full time Google job. If they had to grind and get past the first guards who asked light silly questions, why can’t you get through hardcore legendary no respawn no tools timed trial elite 4 group panel lecture interviews. It’s literally identical to what they went through right?

Even still, it was relatively justifiable for Google who had a legitimate reason to use masters of programming who could live-invent answers to these without using a mental hashmap lookup of answers. They can solve problems fast and make things scalable for big internet work.

But now that every company is cloning that, they’re picking and choosing to “improve” off of Google’s hiring process. Why should we settle for Google’s engineers when our shoe company website can do better. Fixed the flaw in Google’s process where there’s a discussion about your thought process by just fully automating the process. Live monitor solve 10 leetcode problems on your own time and if it’s not an exact character match then it’s wrong and you’re blacklisted.

New hires getting in can’t even get their foot in the door to begin to have an opportunity to invent Google Maps. All time that would have gone to exploring ideas like that now has to go to memorizing leetcode and basic day to day survival with every layer of badly cloned bloat like Agile Scrum meetings where the project manager is screaming at devs when they point a story “wrong.” Despite every sprint for the past 3 years not being able to complete because everyody’s overloaded. Google does it so we just cloned what they’re doing and made it better and the lazy devs are sandbagging. Just imagine how bad it would be if we DIDN’T use leetcode. Thank god the CFO introduced leetcode and personally sits in every engineer interview to let us know when they’re fake bad devs.

I think the drift is specifically tied to the introduction of leetcode in the interview process. Which may sound like a wild connection at first but I’ve now lived through being blocked and seeing how creative devs can’t get through leetcode gatekeepers who are microfussing and blanket critiquing devs as bad when they don’t have leetcode answers pre memorized in a mental hasmap to be able to regurgitate from memory which allows the extra mental capacity to free up in order to hold a performative class lecture about it at the same time.

You can spend your time memorizing the test taking skills to be good at tests. Maybe memorize the answers too. Or you can be coming up with grand ideas like maps and street view and thinking about how all these things in the world come together to be able to do that.

Not many are good at both and the entire stack of people doing interviews is currently blocked at fixing this. Nobody wants to have wasted their time memorizing leetcode to just not gatekeep people who didn’t put in “the same effort,” and no hiring team wants to gamble on somebody who fails the leetcode test processes and turns out to be the occasional bad hire with the only paperwork saying they didn’t pass the industry standard test and shouldn’t have gotten hired in the first place.

So we’re now blocked with only slop workers getting hired who don’t feel the same comfort to take big risks and we get slop like Microsoft notepad plus copilot 365 as a result.

I should be able to refuse emails and not get spammed with life ending phishing and malicious links around every corner.

Email providers shouldn’t be able to whoopsie and delete emails on my behalf, or gatekeep information that’s needed in court.

Self hosting doesn’t fix the core problems with email even if you don’t screw it up, which you will.

Every Reddit mod post is cancer for example. So is every pinned post and automod. 99% of email. Any story about farting or buttholes or diarrhea or any other child joke about how you were unable to be in control of your butthole. I don’t want to hear it and every single day there it is. Any pro-terrorism post from jihadist groups like maga, posts from other nations pretending to be Americans, posts asking people to explain a loaded joke they understand but are trying to get more views on or spread the topic about. Any ai video any video about crypto any fake news.

There’s a lot of room for improvement. Even just detecting things like if a news article doesn’t actually contain information. It seems like we have a ton of areas we could be filtering out cancer a lot better.