burlemarx
It is both. Global warming will make these incidents more frequent. And there’s the corruption and negligence of the bourgeois government, which treats whatever is of public use like shit.
In Brazil we are very much used to hypocritical, greedy, sadistic and corrupt politicians.
Happy labor day, comrades! A shame people don’t celebrate May 1st in Canada (in Brazil the day is very celebrated).
It’s not dumb. They understand what they are doing. They think firing multiple people at once can flood the market with developers, and the situation could be used to hire new people with a lower compensation.
Don’t think the rationale behind this is work quality or developer productivity. This is a power move. For Google and many big tech companies devs are replaceable and are just cogs in the machine. The problem is that they became too costly with the advent of COVID.
People are talking about Java, but the majority of programming languages are memory safe nowadays. Go satisfies this requirement, for example.
Actually, in order to test your assumption, you’d need to quantitatively measure skill, which per se is something already problematic, but you’d also need to run a statistical test to confirm the distribution is a normal/Gaussian distribution. People always forget the latter and often produce incorrect statistical inferences.