Satya Nadella turned MS around after the disaster years under Balmer. Your racism is blinding you if you think that he's a problem - from a product perspective or from profit perspective.

Ah yes, Jerry Dischler, the Indian.

Or Grab-her.

I believe that the trick is not to show the developers the bill.

I haven't had access to the AWS bill in 4 of 5 companies that I've worked at. Why? Fuck if I knew, but I got vague answers like security and compliance when I asked.

I wonder how many thousands could have been saved if all devs could see what they're actually paying for but not using.

You talk as though every other company in the west hasn't been enshittified too.

Windows is only a small part of MS.

Nadella gets a lot of/all the credit for Azure which is the only legit competition to AWS.

O365 has been great for their adoption too.

And then there's all the "free" dev tools like GitHub (acquisition), typescript, vs code etc. which bolsters their image.

I can't even imagine ms under Balmer giving away that much shit. Hell, I wanted to build apps for lumia and they wanted to charge me an arm and a leg just to get started. This was at a time when their store didn't have anything going for itself.

Have you spent any amount of time around software engineers who aren't from India? You may be idealizing us - a lot.

I've worked extensively with devs from NY, SF and Toronto (where I'm located). The ideal "innovative" "passionate" devs are maybe 2 to a company. The rest just want to put food on the table, buy a house, buy a car, go on vacation and fuck off at the end of the day. How do you think fb and Google built their privacy nightmares? By exclusively hiring Indians? Or by dangling enough money at devs of all races who don't give a shit?

Pretty much every single one of my colleagues will gladly write code to turn the product into complete dog shit if the "ad guy" shows up with a million dollar paycheck. What do I care? It's not my baby. My actual real life baby's future matters more to me than the future of whatever product my current company is working on.

Being an Indian yourself does not absolve you of your racist tirades against other Indians. Learn to be empathetic towards others. If I, a privileged dude-bro, can understand why people who grow up with extreme resource contention and competition behave the way they do, then you should get it too.

Not "great novels" but great "great world building". I've seen some absolute bangers out there where the concepts, characters and even the overall plot blew my mind away. However, the authors couldn't write decent dialogues or a coherent chapter of their life depended on it. So, most people wouldn't be exposed to their ideas.

Deal of the day: tech bros and finance bros fuck shit up for everybody. Take it or have it shoved down your throat.

I define tech bros as people who want to solve every single problem with an app. World hunger? I'm building an app for it, bro. Climate crisis? I'm building an app for it.

For instance, the number of COVID trackers built in 2020 was ridiculous. These websites/apps didn't really make any meaningful difference, but the people who built it speak about it like it did.

Also see: accelerationism.