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by ElProlactin 13 days ago
The prominent "Business Owners" link on this company's website is broken. "Not Found".

Perhaps this will get downvoted but I personally take with a grain of salt anything written/stated by a company that can't even get the most basic functions (like running a simple website) correct.

And the even bigger irony here is that the author has a ranty blog post in which he claims he saved his employer $500,000 by clicking a button. "[It] is fucking wild that an inefficiency that took me five minutes to solve in a GUI configuration panel was allowed to persist," he wrote.

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-accidentally-saved-half-a-...
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fzeroracer 13 days ago
I don't think this is surprising at all. I'm pretty sure I've saved my employers similar amounts in the past, because what happens is something gets configured months or years ago, the dev leaves, everyone forgets and assumes things are how they are.

I've had to delete some really silly code that would slow things down or just force waits as a result of either dealing with legacy APIs or some other arcane reason. Not without testing or making sure it wasn't there for a reason mind you, but these inefficiencies can sometimes be hidden big problems.

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ElProlactin 13 days ago
The point isn't that this stuff happens. It's that a person who is trying to sell consulting services with ranty "this industry is a sham" and "it's a disgrace that it was even possible" blog posts has a website with just 5 major navigation links...and one of them is 404.
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robocat 12 days ago
2 brain cells, have you tried reading below the fold of https://hermit-tech.com/business-owners

Soy un loser

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ElProlactin 12 days ago
Hilarious coming from a guy who whined that he wouldn't get a $30,000 raise because he clicked a button.

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-accidentally-saved-half-a-...

Never a good sign when a "consulting" company has time to play petulant child.

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Aurornis 13 days ago
This is an interesting strategy for trying to impress potential customers.

Most consultants try to impress you by talking about the great companies they've worked for.

This blog post screams, "Look how dumb my past coworkers were!" from top to bottom, then expects us to be impressed with their experience?

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