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nixCraft 🐧

this developer retired or resigned from software giant after 22 years 4 mos, and became a farmer. bro is living his dream. x.com/timokonkwo_/status/17853

LinkedIn page of Microsoft employees showing their employment history includes working with the software giant for 22 years and four months. The latest update shows that employees working as farmer
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gary

@nixCraft duck duck goose - wasn't that a jethro tull album?

potpie

@nixCraft even more impressive considering he is a goose

((( Geekosaurus )))

@nixCraft in The Soul of a New Machine, Kidder describes the day they came into the lab and found that one of the top chip designers had had his fill of nanoseconds:

> He went away from the basement
> and left this note on his terminal:
> > "I'm going to a commune in Vermont
> > and will deal with no unit of time
> > shorter than a season."

Sandeep :verifiedroot:

@nixCraft he found out it's easier to do farming than improving windoge performance

Jago Nissi

@nixCraft decades of _performance_ engineering at m$ with nothing to show. At least you get geese from being a goose farmer.

Zergy :verified: :redpanda:

@nixCraft
What can we says? We all know that geese are less irritating than Windows Update. :rp_shrug:

Plus you can make delicious foi gras with them. :rp_hungry:

Marco :slayer:

@nixCraft I'm 20 years in and DAMN this is tempting

canleaf08 ⌘ ✅

@nixCraft In Canada and worldwide this was the way, some workers went, when Nortel was bankrupt. Astronomical growth everywhere and then Roth happened.

fullfathomfive

@nixCraft Most of us just play Stardew Valley, bro is out here living it

DELETED

@nixCraft Yeeeeah—a lot of us are throwing in our tech-pro towels to go do stuff totally unrelated and uncorrupted by people's bullshit. It's a good day to have multiple marketable skillsets.

Aphrodite ☑️ :boost_ok:

@margrim @nixCraft

It’s why I’m shifting into humanistic vocations.

Being of service to my fellow humans is far more rewarding and more important than playing with hardware and software.

sharky5740

@nixCraft To no-ones surprise, the timeline strongly suggests it was architecture that broke their will.

Freevolt

@nixCraft Bro could have chosen a more peaceful animal tho...

René 🐧

@nixCraft he made the hay while the sun shine bright above, now he can rest easy.

dodothedev🦤💻

@nixCraft
Did he move to a remote town in a small valley where everyone is more or less friendly, there's ample fishing, a hat-selling mouse, a wizard and plenty of mines to explore and everyone is just a bit suspicious of the big corp?

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