The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting How to Code

Re:The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting H... by xienze on Sunday April 26, 2026 @06:41AM (#47909172)

I wasn't saying anything about that, I was just pointing out that yes, IBM produces a ton of patents, but they're mostly trivial junk that regular employees generate en masse in order to earn accomplishments and make up for the insultingly low bonuses.

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Re:The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting H... by swiftcoder on Sunday April 26, 2026 @06:45AM (#47909193)

> they're mostly trivial junk that regular employees generate en masse in order to earn accomplishments and make up for the insultingly low bonuses

We did that at Meta and Amazon too (for polycarbonate puzzle pieces, with no monetary award at all!). Every now and then something meaningful came out of it

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Re:The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting H... by flymasterv on Sunday April 26, 2026 @08:36AM (#47909833)

I still have my “Get fucked, employee! Love, Jeff” puzzle pieces.

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Re:The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting H... by NateEag on Sunday April 26, 2026 @12:24PM (#47911491)

What are these? I'm extremely curious.

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Re:The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting H... by recury on Sunday April 26, 2026 @12:58PM (#47911785)

It’s a puzzle piece shape cut out of polycarbonate with some meaningless “great work!” platitude printed on it:

https://postimg.cc/v1v5VP2f

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Re:The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting H... by NateEag on Sunday April 26, 2026 @07:04PM (#47915747)

Thank you for satiating my curiosity.

I can see why GGP described it that way.

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Re:The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting H... by dboreham on Sunday April 26, 2026 @09:58AM (#47910387)

Not even Lucite!

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