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Excellent continuation of the first D&D movies from early 2000s with Jeremy Irons et al, although a bit more comedic and has sweet fuck-all to do with D&D but fun all the same.

Hopefully someone will take Nolan’s Batman trilogy and apply it to D&D for a proper grimdark nerdfest with zero fan service bullshit.

Re:The Worst Programmer on Saturday September 02, 2023 @11:14AM (#37362234)
Yeah this story is cringe. Not sure why the author felt the need to use a bait headline and a shitty anecdote. I want HN to build a way to flag domains so people like Dan North stop writing pulp bullshit.

As for the actual subject, anyone here who has worked professionally in, for example, a growing company has seen some of this in action when the company reaches a particular size, the middle people are decent at what they do in and of itself but do not understand the actual work performed. This would not happen at a tech company, because both upper and lower staff would intercept and reject it. It’s not a mystery that this happened at a bank for obvious reasons.

In this case, it was of course caught because people in charge of hiring/firing are competent enough to interject. The downsides will occur when said people go on vacation or are promoted out of this position. Then the middle managers will once again do what they do best, and the cycle of shitty horror stories with clickbait headlines will continue.

Source: in growing company, am in charge of hiring/firing, don’t assign myself to any stories/tasks/JIRA shit, just help fix it, mentor and move on, oversee teams, have interjected, have course corrected.

Re:It's not just you – no one is posting on social media anymore on Saturday September 02, 2023 @11:05AM (#37362167)
Alright fellas listen up.

Let’s all make sure we read the Community Guidelines {% obligatory_link %} and subjectively follow them when and where I say.

Also if you haven’t, don’t have anyone post refutable data but instead randomly snide comments as unsubstantiated when they don’t fit your agenda.

Thanks.