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[–] 150 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

Lmao, the CEO of Salesforce is congratulating Trump and Musk on their efficiency efforts?

Salesforce is a fucking cancerous efficiency draining leach on society.

It is hands down one of the most incompetent and greedily developed platforms in the world. Literally every Fortune 500 company using it would spend far less and get far more by building the equivalent with internal dev teams.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    There's so much of the systems my company has built and uses that has a bunch of extra code for various features because "Salesforce doesn't support [...]" or "Salesforce makes it hard to [...]". This includes simple programing stuff like "this field is a boolean" and scheduling items.

    I was a retail investor in Salesforce before I worked with their stuff. Then I sold it for reasons like this.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    I spent a year at a software company that built software on top of Salesforce and was just flabbergasted by the decisions and restrictions they had.

    You'd hit hard limits on things like compute and number of requests etc with no literally no way of increasing or scaling them outside of paying absurd custom contract fees to salesforce. It lead to a ton of stuff having to use external platforms to do things and all of these horrible kludgy workarounds, whereas at any other software company it would have just been a matter of your infrastructure automatically spinning up another instance during high load periods.

    Then their frameworks and programming languages are just piles of garbage.

    Apex is their backend language and it's basically an extremely old and limited version of Java, but not only does it not support any of the niceties of modern Java, it also doesn't support any actual Java packages or frameworks so stuff like Kotlin or the Spring ecosystem is out of the question. It doesn't even come with a framework for writing unit tests. On top of that, you then have all these insane restrictions on how your code files are organized. There's no name spacing, all your code files have to be in a single flat directory, there's file length restrictions and character restrictions and even casing restrictions... depending on where you reference an Apex class, it could use one of three different name syntaxes (i.e. MyClass has to be referred to as myClass in some places, MyClass in others, and my-class in others).

    Their frontend language was a pile of even shittier garbage, though was replaced with their own web component framework that is at least halfway similar to standard web components. But they still come with the crazy lack of name spacing and all the file naming and organization restrictions, they still don't support TypeScript, and they come with literally no ootb methods for State Management, routing, etc.

    And all of their dev infrastructure has to run on an instance of a Salesforce server so there is literally no way of developing actually locally.

    A visualization of the year I spent trying to develop good software that users might like on top of salesforce: https://youtu.be/kSGEzpkgsu0?t=35s

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Setting it up for a client I was immediately dead-ended by report fields that couldn't be filtered or searched in a way that made sense, so there I am apologizing for the software on day 3.

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  • [–] 92 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This is the guy, running a cloud platform attacked by multiple hacking groups to steal their customers data. There are 14 cases underway for breach of security and privacy. They dont care about their own customers.

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  • [–] 79 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is the motherfucker that decided to RTO the entire company after telling us that he wouldn't RTO the Slack team since a large potion of our team was remote. I had to find another job. Fuck this asshole.

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  • [–] 60 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Sees other tech CEOs taking a heel turn

    Hey, I can be a piece of shit too!

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    If any CEOs would do it, it makes sense it would be tech CEOs. Big tech is just as useful in a democracy as it would be to a totalitarian dictatorship, if not even more so. Thats a big difference from things like independent media companies, or major corporations that produce much of anything that isnt beneficial to a totalitarian state. Tech companies have the means to help a dictator control their citizens lives and spy on them, while a big food producer or car manufacturer or whatever does not

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  • [–] 51 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Sometimes I wonder if Rupert Murdoch has a Fox News for billionaires channel that I don't know about, where they get all their stupid, destructive, and sociopathic ideas.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

    I don't remember where I read this but I recall reading something about how having a certain amount of wealth/power is similar to having severe head trauma... I will see if I can locate it

    Edit: boy that's hard to search. All I'm getting is shit like "10 easy steps to rewire your brain for wealth!"

    I can't find it so take that with a grain of salt

    @gdog05@lemmy.world found it. Archive link here

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    For future reference, I self-host an instance of SearXNG to get away from Google. It feels much like search used to be (and searching for "wealthy brain damage" this was like the fifth result). There are public instances as well. It's extremely useful and I hope people utilize it as their default search engine to get away from Google. https://searx.space/

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don't use Google products anymore other than Maps (and only when I can't find what I need using OSM or Magic Earth). I used DuckDuckGo which has gotten really bad.

    I'm aware of SearX and self-hosting but it just seems like a giant pain to set up. I can do it (...and I probably will at some point) but I just get exhausted doing technology the hard way.

    I've degoogled my phone, run linux on both laptop and desktop, set up a Pi-hole, and none of that stuff was intuitive or easy to set up and maintain.

    I'm aware it's a skill issue but like, I'm just tired man

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I absolutely get that. Truly. It's a lot. You don't have to self host SearXNG though. You can use one of the public instances. Self hosting just adds a couple of perks is all. I'm glad you've de-Googled! It's not an easy task.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    That's kinda fascinating. Not sure if it's related, but I'm pretty good at my job. Not the best by any means but pretty good. But I have to keep myself humble and deferential, because the moment I huff too many of my own farts, I start fucking up. Self-doubt is literally the fuel that powers my greatness (such as it is).

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    [–] 33 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Your software sucks asshole.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Naturally our biggest customer is undergoing migrating from Siebel to Salesforce. I don't have a dog in that fight other than to say the performance seems much worse. But I always hate when my efforts turn out to support the profits of rich assholes. Still, it's a rare position that doesn't benefit those bastards in some way. Even when I was contracting for local government, it was working for nepotistic pricks.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Salesforce is a brand name, for executives that care about style over substance. Smart teams have been moving away from it for a while now, there are even open-source alternatives now, or commercial options that don't require a dedicated database administrator at your company and special training to use. It's a behemoth that will thunder when it falls.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    It's just a service with an API to me, same as any other. But it does seem to have 20x worse performance (to be fair, migration isn't complete and things might not be tuned right).

    But I kinda hate it just because it is everywhere and always such a bottleneck to improvement.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    These pieces of shit are everywhere!

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    IT people of Lemmy!

    Any chance there are problems with the next Salesforce patch that presages ongoing issues?

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    You work and work and work, trying to get the company's brand image polished, and then keep it that way, and the dumbass CEO opens his mouth and dismantles a year of work with one stupid utterance.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    JD is looking rough

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You know what would get "dangerous" people of the streets? Houses. People need houses and universal income if fat fucks like this get to spew their hate. Freedom of speech is protected amendment but the right to equatable housing should be above freedom of religion, because most use their religion to justify poor people and venerate the wealthy. The world needs less billionaires and millionaires, because the 20 people that are wealthy ruin it for the many billions of people that just survive and just scrape by

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    They don't want people off the streets. The right thrive on stoking the fear and resentment of their base, and what better fuel for the fire than people on the lowest rungs of society.

    This is why I have been increasingly frustrated at the UK's current government, who are shitting themselves about the rise of the right wing Reform party, but refuse to understand that capitulating to their "stop the boats" anti-immigrant rhetoric, they're just yielding more ground to the reactionary right.

    I don't expect establishment politicians to actually give a fuck about regular people, but they are actively at risk of losing their political power if they continue to ignore the actual root causes of the social malaise that Reform are exploiting. It's beyond obvious that we are in dire need of investment in services and infrastructure, but I guess they're afraid of pissing off their political donors and other people with unelected power (billionaires etc.)

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    These people are spineless.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    let them eat cake

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Eye of sauron, what did you expect?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    This dude thinks the only thing holding him back from “Ultimate Power!” (Said in emperor Palpatine’s voice) is all these bothersome people.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    The company is called Salesforce. Who else can head such a beast but an incarnation of Satan himzelf.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    That community has put up with a lot of shit from this asshole. I’d suggest they raze the tower to the ground, but instead they should crib it with imminent domain and use it as a homeless shelter.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    White people with money sure do slide right back in to authoritarianism, god damn.

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    [–] 40 points 1 year ago

    Okay, so the Salesforce CEO is a Nazi sympathizer too

    This is becoming quite the list, though most of it is just "extremely rich people"

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    SalesForce also owns Slack and Tableau, in case you now need to find non-nazi platforms to migrate toward.

    Remember, non-US alternatives are good, but be aware that fascism is metastasizing globally, don’t assume a non-US alternative is automatically safe. To beat this, we need to use due diligence in all things.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    Just wow. I honestly don't see how we can continue as a unified country with folks like this pulling at the levers. My whole life and understanding of what this country is and means has been a lie. I've become quite disillusioned.

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I really hope people in tech are paying attention. We could use more people discovering class consciousness in our field. There's too many temporarily-embarrassed billionaires among us.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I was warned Friday that my anti-AI stance would get me fired by the morons in management pushing AI they know nothing about

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Yo, do not let your anti-AI stance be known in the corpo. If you don't plan to quit for your own reasons, keep your class consciousness and other "unaligned" views away from management. Instead, keep management content and help your coworkers. Having more comrades in corporate structures makes it easier for others to develop class consciousness without being ejected. Especially in positions of management. At the very least it's helluvalot nicer to work under a class conscious manager than a standard corpo drone.

    If your boss wants AI usage, give 'em AI usage. If the results are not stellar and they end up spending a ton of money for it, that'll move them in a different direction.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    Another shit stain revealed.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • San Francisco says to kick out sales force

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Who the fuck cares what some random guy says. The only difference between him and some mentally Ill guy on the street is he has too much money.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Maybe they can arrest the criminals that allowed a billion people's personal information to be mishandled and hacked.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    maybe they can help pickup the dog poo, and assist homless drug addicts to get help.

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