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[-] HStone32@lemmy.world 54 points 2 months ago

I've heard an ex microsoft employee said in a blog once that the windows team has no seniors. Anyone who has worked there for one or two years has left for better employers. Nobody knows how to refactor or maintain old codebases, so instead, they just write new things on top of the old things. The windows kernel has hardly changed since XP.

[-] fushuan@lemm.ee 40 points 2 months ago

This makes sense, most of that explanation in the screenshot reeks of novices working with something they don't understand.

[-] essteeyou@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

Copying and pasting a current example and changing the names... yep.

Instead of making it worse you could extract it to a new file. Make an interface. Write a unit test. Anything.

The guy wonders why the file is 15k lines long and then describes exactly why.

[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

Right? Like my dude, bare minimum at least write down those steps in a text document so you can reference it the next time you have to add something. Bonus points for putting it on some shared internal wiki or whatever Microsoft uses.

[-] IsoSpandy@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

I don't think anybody gets paid enough to write that down. In fact, they might get punished for wasting company time. They could open source it and people would automatically fix these things. Who knows.

[-] AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

Or write a tool that can do all these steps for you, reliably!

[-] AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 months ago

This sounds 100% credible, based on the outcomes we can see

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The windows kernel has hardly changed since XP.

Windows NNT when? Surely from a business/competition perspective they can't let Linux get that many years ahead of them in terms of kernel optimisations?

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

thats what happens when short term profit is king I guess

[-] PullPantsUnsworn@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Windows Vista had lot of changes to the kernel. Windows 7 relaxed security features introduced in Vista. But nothing changed after that. They have been slapping ugly UI on top of existing kernel.

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