/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>11554313
Post nudes of your mom or sister and I'll give some opinions

>>11554313

Basically normies got in on what used to be an exclusive club for social outcasts and early adopters in the late 90s.

Now it is filled with faggot and female "scrum masters" and "agile coaches" and all the associated absolute KEKERY. What was once an virgin industry is now dominated by a few megoliths who absorb all competition and enforce a strict authoritarian rule over what they perceive to be theirs - i.e. free interaction of ideas between humans leveraging telecommunications.

>>11554347
I'm an agile coach and I agree that 99.9% of my peers are faggots specially women without IT knowledge,, dév skills, and change management skills

>>11554347
>Now it is filled with faggot and female "scrum masters" and "agile coaches" and all the associated absolute KEKERY
Holy shit, full stack software dev here and this couldn't be more true. Scrum master and agile coach are roles that were invented just so that Stacy's could find a job doing something vaguely IT-related

>>11554503

>tech boom late 90s
>roasties want to get a piece of the pie
>brain wired in a way which is more favorable to empathy and feelings rather than sterile logic and objective problem solving
>AGILE COACH
>SCRUM MASTER
>PROJECT DELIVERY MANAGER
>STAKEHOLDER MANAGER

Meanwhile 1 fucking autist produces code while being orbited by 10 of these faggots

Theres absolutely nothing wrong with pirating.

The only way I will ever pay for digital products is if it uses a business model like netflix or spotify where I can just use what I need and pay a small fee

>illegal collection of 1s and 0s
no such thing

>>11554548

Is this another Upfiring shill? jeez man

You can't steal something that isn't physical

>>11554503
I'm just reading about this agile coach thing now. Is it basically like they just pay some Stacy to nag you until you get the job done?

>>11555277
everything is physical

>>11554503
wtf i just look over a few job postings for these and they pay as much as a senior developer yet no programming skill is required

there is no ethics in this industry
all people care about is money
just look at the tremendous amount of shitcoins..

>>11555382
It's an admin job, and the reality is the only admin jobs that are needed are a person to do the accounting and do the PR with the businesses. Interviewing should go to the most senior people of the job that is being interviewed for, managerial roles should also go to people with seniority in the subject not people with degrees in "management".

>>11555382
Agile is a method of developing software that's very popular at the moment, it basically just means putting the most important work first and checking in with clients often to provide updates and get feedback on how the project is going.

The whole stated point of an agile coach is to "facilitate agile", which means to make sure that a team is following practices that are agile. But agile is simple and most devs pick it up quickly, 90% of their job consists of checking e-mail, catching up with other Stacy's, reading news articles from buzzfeed and shit, and showing baby pictures. The other 10% is attending meetings.

>>11555645
Is this real? Network engineer here, this is some legit weird shit. Developers have Staceys telling them how to do their jobs faster?

>>11555712

Better believe it. It is like a cult.

>>11555722
Share the juicy details anon, I'll get the popcorn.

Think of it this way...

Pretty much anything popular is raking in millions of profit each year. Do you want to know how? It's by charging a rip off price.

I'd rather not get ripped off, so I pirate shit.

It's like buying a $10 coffee and then saying "oh it's because they have a lot of expenses too, like wages, premises ...etc" - yet they make millions in net profit.

>>11555747
Its not that their job is completely unnecessary, but it could be accomplished with a college intern, or a pamphlet really.

Here's a typical "Sprint retrospective", where the team thinks over the last 2 weeks of work and decides what went well and what didn't go so well. This is 1 of exactly 2 opportunities when an agile coach is "useful" in any way.

>Stacy: *puts phone away*
>Stacy: "Ok so today for retro we're gonna do an activity called "Stop, Start, Continue. This is where we write out things that happened over the last 2 weeks on Post-its and say whether we want to start, stop, or continue!"
>devs spend 10 minutes writing out post-its
>devs then go over each category and discuss what worked and what didn't
>Stacy listens to conversation on a surface level and writes down 2 takeaway points
>meeting over
>Stacy sends out e-mail with takeaway points
>devs do the work themselves that they agreed to themselves
>Stacy makes probably 85k a year

>>11555834

You know what is sad?

I am not even a fucking dev nor do I work in the IT industry. I work in a fucking ACCOUNTING FIRM and the reason I hate agile bullshit so much is because the two boomer cucks that own the firm have decided applying it to accounting would be good.

Total fucking clusterfuck, everyone is burnt the fuck out. 2 weeks sprints in a fucking accounting practice does not work. Ready to quit, so are others.

>>11555834

Literally every morning we have to have a "huddle" like you describe and go around the table saying what work we did. Some days you literally say "nothing" because in accounting jobs can go on for weeks. Complete and utter waste of fucking time.

>>11555834
Are you serious? Is this a kindergarten? Holy shit. Boy am I fucking glad I went into networking. You guys are babysat like little children, holy fucking shit. You write things on a post it note jajajaj.

Seriously though, I don't believe this is the norm. Change companies anon, I think you're in a bad one.

>>11555856
>>11555874
How have I not heard of this agile shit yet. I am shook but pleasantly amused.

>>11555834
>Stacy makes probably 85k a year
I bet that's only 77% of what the male devs make, shitlord

>>11554313
Copyright is bullshit. Ideas want to be free.

>>11554313
>Ethics in IT industry.

Dog whistle for leftist crap.

>>11554313
Ethics is for FAGGOTS

God damn it I hate agile and other management bullshit.

When you have a whole group of the company that actually does nothing and does not produce anything this is the stupid bullshit they come up with.

>>11555856
>ACCOUNTING FIRM

LOL is this real life?

Also the notion that if those cunts were young they would not want bullshit is itself bullshit.

So called boomers did not come up with this agile shit.

Friendly reminder that if your managers don't do work along with the actual workers, the company will fail.

>>11555909
Pff how much do you think devs make?

>>11555928
Just wait until someone steals your original ideas.

>>11556021
>implying i have any original ideas in the first place

>>11555834

>roastie takes away the 2 post-it notes
>books a trip away with other agile roasties on the company's dime for "strategy planning"
>compare eachothers roastie notes
>come back - give feedback to devs
>nothing changes
>hold another roastie-post meeting the next month

>>11556021
Funny, when I was a kid (18y/o) working at AT&T, I had so many ideas I basically spewed them left and right. Managers never did shit about it though so I just slowly stopped. I don't work there anymore (spoilers: one of the worst companies i've had the displeasure of wagecucking for), but I can tell they still haven't tried one idea because they're slowly failing. Customers are leaving them, towers aren't being repaired as fast as they used to after hurricanes, etc.

I mean, I'm kinda glad though. They don't deserve my ideas anyways. Now that I'm older, I probably realize had they tried them my manager would've just stolen my credit anyways.

>>11556105
We've all been there. Hope you have a better job now anon.

>>11556141
I have no job lol you think an autistic 21 y/o autodidact can do anything when all the recruiters are roasties?

I've been shorting bitcoin to somewhat sustain myself but I'm still slowly losing money to expenses. But I know everything will be ok in the end. Stay strong anons we will make it.

>>11556165
The way you were talking I thought you were late 20s early 30s.

Find a job homie.

>>11556105
LOL typical kid, every 18 year old thinks they have all of these new original ideas even if they actually don't.

>>11556198
eh, I'll let $T speak for itself then.

adapt or die. just fucking look at netflix. you cant tell me the industry is losing money because of pirates.

>>11556219
I personally like the environment excuse.

It's better to pirate then to buy a plastic box that needed labels and receipts and trucks to transport and factories to process. Get a digital copy for free.

There's so many good reasons for pirating though you could write papers on it.

Even the economic reason is bullshit. It's not hurting the industry. Look at the music industry. Without pirating it would have never got to streaming and the industry would have never evolved. More artists are making more money than at any point in human history. The idea of needing a patron to slave under is basically a neolithic concept as far as artists are concerned. Piracy is a godsend.

>>11556265
yOu WoUlDn'T dOwNlOaD a CaR r-RiGhT aNoN?

>>11556284
I would so fucking hard

>>11556287
My dick would be if I could download my car

>>11556302
>you wouldn't download a perfectly thic big hipped large breasted viking AI configured personal needs housewife android - right anon?

Imagine all the NPCs who put their money into human wives when the market crashes while android companionship moons. Fools.

>>11554519
this

>>11554519
Whats crazy is these people hold power in projects and influence the direction for application of the project. So great sounding projects get lost in the details of the terrible implementation.

>>11554535
With digital products, if I want to support the content creator, I will buy it after I try it. Piracy is a symptom of the problem, not the cause.

>>11554313
literally everyone involved in IT is a degenerate faggot and I hope they are the first to be cleansed from the earth.

>>11555834
Administration for administration sake is a blight on humanity.

>>11554519
In my first company we had to only log 6 hours of work per day (the other 2 were dedicated for meetings, training, etc).
But I got a raise to a part-time scrum master (basically doing nothing) which dropped the hours to 4.
A scrum master only facilitates the planning process, but being witty with Jira I managed to only get the simplest tasks for me, and overestimate them (double what the team would plan for). So my actual work was expected to be 2 hours per day.
And I was always a bit behind, kek. In the meantime I built my first side hustles on company time.
You don't have to be a roastie to game the system with holes, made for roasties, OP.

>>11556165
Well then teaching yourself some skills should be easy. Don't sweat it, B. We are the same except I'm 24. Don't rely on crypto to free you from the lifecuck. You have the mental faculties to do some great things, so stop letting the little things block you.

P.S. some recruiters find autistic shyness endearing, so don't let that stop you

>>11557027
In a bit over a year of wagecucking at said place I:
1. Built two niche sites
2. Started a decent fiverr gig and serviced people on company time
3. Translated whitepapers on bitcointalk for some nasty-ass bounty payments
4. Watched EVERY single minute of Martin Shkreli, read Principles by Dalio and every Rothbard book I could get my hands on
5. Listened to 5+ audiobooks on youtube - Zero to One, How to stop worrying and start living, Think and grow rich, The epiphany of a fool by Norbekov, etc
6. Also read Nabokov's Lolita for the lulz
And plenty of other things I can't even recall right now, kek. Also brought my own laptop to daytrade, I actually made it into LINK's ICO during work hours.
Funny thing is, I would have been a good wagecuck if my team lead wasn't a complete bitch. But the roastie revolution actually helped me in that scenario by motivating me and making me stop giving a shit about my employer...

I'm a Senior Java dev in a 1000+ people startup and every single piece of information laid out in posts
>>11555834
>>11554519
>>11554488
is true.

HOWEVER the biggest problem in the industry right now is the technical people are so babysat by all this administrative bullshit, that all the memes you see of Laquisha promoting black cuisine, Ledasha fighting for onions lattes for the office canteen and Chad writing actual code are only half true.

They're half true, because the 90% of the Chads no longer write code, they just don't give a fuck anymore. And if you're the last ambitious 10% left, tough fucking luck, you better work your ass off for a 5% raise or join the absolute downfall of this industry.

AI or pajeet replacements can't come soon enough to replace all of those lazy, dumbfuck "devs" who commit 2 lines of code a day.

>>11557907
>>11557907
Kek, why are you mad bro?
We're given lemons - we make lemonade.
I could afford to be lazy because I could easily find employment even if I was sacked (I quit myself though).
Most of us devs are actually alright, but corporations one step away from being government institutions - so much bureaucracy to make jobs for roasties that if you actually try being productive everyone is going to shit on you and you'll only get frustrated. Jacking off in the toilet and working on side projects is much more rewarding.
If you want to do actual work and enjoy being productive - go work in a startup with no more than 20 employees. I started my own one and haven't been happier.
>t. former senior .net/react fullstack dev

If your software is crackable, it's basically your own fault.
Nothing wrong with pirating as an individual nor as a business.

>>11558395

Hope your iterations are being done in an AGILE MANNER

>>11558423

>if your software is crackable it’s your own fault
>therefore I can hack anything I want

Tell that to the FBI

>>11556165
>i've been shorting bitcoin to somewhat sustain myself but I'm still slowly losing money to expenses.
nigga r u me. i havent had a job since last year and have been living off my crypto. i just dont want to go back to wagecucking but at the same time if I dont do something my stockpile will slowly dwindle away. Im just hoping for something to happen before I have to go back to wagecucking. i dont even need that much. just enough for like 25-30k a year so I dont have to work. I already own my house so I dont have to worry about that at least

>>11554503

Sc(rot)um and AgileTM are indeed a fucking cancer. This is something that has been fucking me up on my latest SW development job and I'm seriously considering leaving this industry due to how pervarsive this crap is.

These "methodologies" only lead to micro management, "eternal beginners" and makes software development feel like assembly line work.

These are the biggest meme in the IT industry and I WISH THEY WOULD BE FUCKING ERADICATED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.

>>11559530

Even the original signers of "The Agile Manifesto" are calling out the BS that AgileTM has turned into, like Dave Thomas in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-BOSpxYJ9M or Martin Fowler in https://martinfowler.com/articles/agile-aus-2018.html..

This dude also has some visceral to say about AgileTM: https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2015/06/06/why-agile-and-especially-scrum-are-terrible/

On my part, if I decide to continue in the IT industry... What I'll have to do is to just stop giving a fuck about SCRUM and AgileTM and move on, it's a battle that I can not win.

Laws regarding copyrights and patents for software are totally fucked and need to be reworked for the most part.

Also India still exists.

>>11555856

Oh boy, I've seen people trying to apply SCRUM bullshit in hardware projects... Which is just fucking ridiculous.

>>11555887

You have no idea man. AgileTM is a virus that's in the vast majority of software development companies. It really IS THE NORM.

>>11555928
>>11556021
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>>11556198
Its not the ideas that are valuable. Its the people, money, and infrastructure to make it real.

>>11554347
>bachelors for entey level positions
>pajeet managers with no dignity
>14.50 an hour on a contract

I worked hard to rise above level 1 hell

>>11554334
based and redpilled

>>11555834
Stacy: "Ok so today for retro we're gonna do an activity called "Stop, Start, Continue. This is where we write out things that happened over the last 2 weeks on Post-its and say whether we want to start, stop, or continue!"

> Write: I _FEEL_ like Stacy needs to bring donuts to facilitate positive engagement with team
> I feel like Stacy does not understand the code enough to properly assess team agility. I recommend basic code classes during the day.
> I feel like Stacy does not properly capture the key takeaway points in her email and suggest it must be approved by all devs prior to large circulation
> I feel to further facilitate scrum agility that we need to have a rotating scrum schedule where scrums are assigned to our team for one week at a time, then rotate to another team.