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by blululu 1112 days ago
The UI mangler is probably a “high performer” who is great at slideware engineering. This is their second round of layoffs and I would suggest not kicking the folks who are down today.
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"Slideware engineering" is an excellent phrase which I plan to keep. Thank you.
Can I have an explanation because I don't understand the joke?
Given they backslid on the feed given how badly it went down, and given they had sold the feed to artists (literally, giving them better promotion in exchange for lower royalties was defacto selling advertising space on the screens of "ad free users) which they will now have to unpick probably at a material effect on cost projections, I suspect the product management team are probably not considered high performers at present.