Business Company accidentally increased dev productivity 3x by laying off 20% of middle management Fagooglix, a Silicon Valley company, joined a wave of layoffs by reducing the pool of middle managers, agile coaches and scrum masters by 20% in an attempt to cut costs.
Apps Tinder to ban web developers who use 'engineer' in their bio Tinder, a dating app, has recently updated its Terms of Service. Among minor bureaucratic modifications, one major change aims to battle impersonations. From now on, Tinder will ban web developers
Business Dev realizes he is still in the interview stage after 2 years of work Thorough, long interviews are familiar to anyone trying to get a job as a software developer. Certain companies make candidates go through as many as 9 circles of interviews, including
Business Corporate leaks show that Satan still owes over $400k to Facebook for consulting services According to recent corporate leaks, which include vast archives of accounting documents of Facebook, Inc., Satan not only exists, but often delays payments for services rendered. In particular, it seems
Business Facebook acquires Somalia to escape regulations, renames country to Zuckerbergstan Social networking giant Facebook has finalized the acquisition of the African state of Somalia for the price of 4.31 Instagrams. Formally, the unusual business transaction was planned to "connect
Business Medical startup struggles to hire full-stack doctors with 75+ years of experience An ambitious medical startup, promised to revolutionize the world of medicine, faced an unexpected challenge: so far, the HR department has managed to hire zero out of necessary 3500 full-stack
Startups Hacker hacks into startup, rewrites complex backend with PostgreSQL and cron, forces CEO to fire 40% of devs and devops A hacker of unknown origins hacked into servers of Complify, a rapidly growing VC-funded startup. When Complify's security specialists noticed the breach, it was too late. However, unexpectedly, the hacker's
Apps WhatsApp considers removing words "Lucifer" and "Soul" from terms of service Menlo Park, CA—Sources within Facebook report that internal law department recommends updating the Terms of Service for WhatsApp, a popular messaging app. The update should remove mentions of "Lucifer"
Business Lawyers prohibit Google workers UNION, claim company is NoSQL Anonymous source from a major law firm claims that workers union at Google and Alphabet, Inc. may be an impossible dream because Google's corporate structure is schema-less NoSQL rather than
Business Global productivity spiked during Slack downtime A tremendous boost in productivity has been recorded globally on January 4th 2021. The precise timeline heavily correlates with the downtime of Slack, a popular team communication application whose mission
Startups Senior developer fired for insisting their pronouns are "sir/sir" Miami, FL—After hours of deliberation, the HR department of a large tech company handed the pink slip to a senior developer who had asked to remain anonymous. While most
Business Alexa to monetize referrals and ads in human conversations. Foul-mouthed persons demonetized. Soon you'll be able to monetize your speech by sharing recommendations with your friends and family. For example, simply replacing the phrase "dude, turn on the coffee maker" with "dude,
Business Programmers with laptops full of stickers receive their first ad revenue cheques If your laptop is sleek and clean, and you've been looking down at those slightly dirty computers with dozens of "Docker", "Kubernetes", "VS Code" and other stickers, think again. Owners
Business Full stack developers expected to do accounting, HVAC and office cleaning The ever-growing list of duties of a "full stack developer" are about to be expanded again. Many technology companies in the Valley are already actively seeking full stack web developers
Business Data analyst stumbles upon Excel function which does entire job While carelessly clicking through the Excel data tab a data analyst, whom requested to stay anonymous, discovers a function which does their entire job. Speechless was the initial reaction followed
