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by t43562 5mo ago
I found that the proposers of features "want everything" because they don't know what is critical - they're therefore totally unwilling to accept anything other than "the full monty". So as a senior developer
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by t43562 5mo ago
If AI writes your code, why use Rust? Why not use assembler? Why waste time trolling people that your one true language is the answer for LLMs when your view of the future is: no more programming full stop.
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by t43562 5mo ago
Software does allow errors hence, IMO, we overload the complexity and "underload" the proof of correctness. We're not really that afraid of failures most of the time. Vibe code a bridge! Arf. I am sure someone will.
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by t43562 5mo ago
....however that really is a kind of simplicity. Your training is relevant throughout your career. In software that is much less so. I think Comsci is a worthwhile degree but mine was really only a starting point.
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by t43562 5mo ago
Software is super complex and cheap to update. Engineering like this, however difficult, is not that complex and it's very expensive and difficult to update. We take advantage of the situation. If we invented some way of e.g. "
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by t43562 5mo ago
I'd probably just open a file manager window to the foreground rather than open a dialog box. Or possibly I would make the whole thing document centric - you create a document in the folder you want it in and that opens the app. Then y
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by t43562 5mo ago
I find current UIs weird and stupid and extremely dull - which is why I think the CLI is still used so much by at least developers like me. Drag and drop is one thing we just don't really use more than, say, once every 1/2 hour. T
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by t43562 5mo ago
I don't know how rare it is. I have always found it harder to write software when I don't know the people who will use it or get to see what they feel about it. It's part of the feedback loop. When I get good feedback it&#x27
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by t43562 5mo ago
What could also happen is that we stop needing companies that produce software altogether.
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by t43562 5mo ago
It might just be "expensive" people - old is relative.
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by t43562 5mo ago
...but you're probably expensive and getting rid of expensive people without being involved in an "ageism" lawsuit is a great gift to a CEO.
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by t43562 5mo ago
Money IS the ultimate respect. Talk is cheap. The only talk that has real value is "Hey, hire this guy - he's excellent and did an incredible job!"
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by t43562 5mo ago
"Our product is stupid and probably won't sell despite the mountains of bullshit I've spewed over the last couple of years and we need to pivot so ...." "We took out some huge debt and need to pay it off asap so ...
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by t43562 5mo ago
30 minutes of chat is one thing but one might expect work to come out of it such as things you have to do for or about that person. IMO it's just efficient to use any excuse to say "what's up, how did the house move go?"
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by t43562 5mo ago
I used to have many ad-hoc chats with my team every day so that 1-1 time was redundant and we just spent it debugging things or discussing some problem. My own boss seemed to see the time as an opportunity to apply pressure so of course I u
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by t43562 5mo ago
I was a technical team lead/line manager and I watched my team casually ask about what I did all day and then 10 minutes later call me up to spend an hour debugging their code for them. And then the next one called me up to work on the
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by t43562 5mo ago
I think they worked that out long ago - that segmenting users has no downside for them and IPv6 has minor upside. It's only mobile devices that help us but I'm sure there will be kinks in the chain that don't get fixed.
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by t43562 5mo ago
That would indeed be a disaster because there is a lot of IPv6 usage and a lot more support from operating systems and hardware that has to exist first and now we should start again with something else would introduce a 3rd unsuccessful att
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by t43562 5mo ago
IPv6 is awesome and I'm so happy that my local network is IPv6 and my provider offers IPv6 by default too. I think it offers hope that we can serve up data in a much more peer-to-peer way without going via "bigcorp" servers.
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by t43562 5mo ago
Well, there's some food for paranoia :-D.
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by t43562 5mo ago
I think we've been shunted into an alternate universe by NAT - one which reinforces the power of large companies because we essentially cannot communicate computer to computer without going through some service. As for security........
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by t43562 6mo ago
...and guilt tripping people you meet on holiday for their phone choice because it's inconvenient for you.
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by t43562 6mo ago
setting up local networks is so trivial compared to forcing everyone to buy an Apple gizmo.
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by t43562 6mo ago
To send files locally why not set up a wifi hotspot? Then you can transfer files to and from uncool people with Android or Linux phones/computers using localsend. I've never found this difficult and often use hotspots when I'
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by t43562 6mo ago
bluetooth is local. Actually, I realise I'm being facetious since I've not managed to get Apple bluetooth to connect to anything non Apple yet.
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by t43562 6mo ago
> Functional testing is a must now that writing tests is also automated away by LLMs as you can get a better understanding if it does what it says on the box, but there will still be a lot of hidden gotchas if you're not even lookin
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by t43562 6mo ago
Who really truly enjoys that and doesn't see it as a chore? I find the real way to review other people's code is to program with it and then I start seeing where the problems are much more clearly. I would do a review and spot not
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by t43562 6mo ago
The conservation of Complexity (Tesler) seems immediately insightful to me just as a sentence: "Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity that can only be shifted, not eliminated." But then in the e
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by t43562 6mo ago
Of course. You've had to give up and operate at the people level and it works because all those above you are doing that even more so. ...and you want to get ahead. But you've made a trade off and to think otherwise would be a mis
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by t43562 6mo ago
I think professionals are almost always doing things that are at least 30% new...otherwise they've had a long time in one job which is a fortunate thing nowadays. My last job started with "here's a book about go programming.&

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