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Perfectly demonstrating the truth of the "Microsoft org chart" cartoon.

https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts

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I've seen this a million times, but aren't the Amazon and Apple ones kinda the same, just differently shaped?
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One has 1:2 fanout, the other has 1:50 fanout.
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It is also company behind NuGet.

Guess what they did a year ago.

They removed 700 or so packages from NuGet proactively but those turned out to be false positives.

It is hard to do the right things.

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It is hard for Microsoft to do the right things*

FTFY

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Not trolling here but these things are by design cesspools ready for compromise. Any fully open ecosystem where contributions are not strictly reviewed is open to this problem. If you don't like it, don't use editor extensions and use a well audited editor.

If you want to use extensions or node packages or pypi packages without doing a detailed review you're accumulating technical debt. You're assuming a risk in order to ship rapidly. You can either pay that down at some point under control, or bear the interest when it comes due.

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i mean, then you say it like that…
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Microsoft is the inverse hand of Midas, turns everything into shit.
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Mierdas, as they say.
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With $101 billion in profit last year I wish I could turn things into $hit as well as they do.
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You could, with a large enough captive audience.
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Everything Microsoft makes sucks. If they decided to make vacuum cleaners though, they wouldn’t suck, they would blow.
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Just five years ago this opinion was heresy on HN. Those of us who still remembered their behavior in the 80s/90s were belittled.

"They have changed, gramps. This really smart Satya Nadella is CEO. They are the good guys now. Don't be so bitter over old stuff."

Also: Note that the headline undersells the news dramatically. The article begins with:

"GitHub has confirmed that roughly 3,800 internal repositories were breached after one of its employees installed a malicious VS Code extension."

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these days it's just Microslop
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