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by forgotmyinfo 2y ago
Thanks for questioning my motives because of your pre-existing biases. But no, I'm actually disgusted with the state of this industry. But from this point on, feel free to wonder as you please.
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by forgotmyinfo 2y ago
When will we have sympathy for the people who have mortgages and families instead of the massive companies with millions or billions of dollars?
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by forgotmyinfo 2y ago
Not that I'm not also bitter and jaded, but what made you think a VC-funded pg forum was going to be at all fair and open with stuff like this?
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by forgotmyinfo 2y ago
Sucks. Sure do wish we had some sort of collective bargaining power to prevent this. Oh, but that one guy over there is really good at Leetcode, so never mind, every man for himself.
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by forgotmyinfo 2y ago
Yes? Block, move on. It's the internet, you aren't forced to interact with anyone. If you are, get a better source code hosting platform.
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by forgotmyinfo 2y ago
Giving out advice for concrete steps someone can take to prevent a problem isn't victim blaming. Unless we're all content with people just sitting and whining all the time instead of actually doing anything to help themselves. And
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by forgotmyinfo 2y ago
It's important to note that rudeness is somewhat up for interpretation. Rejecting a patch because it's full of bugs might be considered rude to some people, but not to me. There are definitely times where Drew rubs me the wrong wa
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by forgotmyinfo 2y ago
Boomer hat: it's just toxic positivity, and the frustrating trend lately of assuming that everyone is equally skilled when writing software. Everyone's input is valid, or else you're just being negative and overly critical. I
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by forgotmyinfo 2y ago
Oh, come on now. You don't have to enjoy Toni Morrison, but to discount her absolute success because she isn't your preference is more than a little ridiculous.
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by forgotmyinfo 2y ago
Ah yes, as everyone knows, "having a trillion dollars" is famously no match for "being able to code".
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by forgotmyinfo 2y ago
We can't even support actual critical physical infrastructure anymore, like roads, bridges, and the power grid. And that stuff has very obvious immediate consequences when it breaks. Try explaining to your local octogenarian senator wh
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by forgotmyinfo 2y ago
There are a million bots scanning all of IPv4 space every minute looking for automated exploits. You don't need someone dedicated looking to get into trouble.
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by forgotmyinfo 2y ago
Please don't listen to this advice, this is precisely how services get pwned.
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by forgotmyinfo 2y ago
Get someone else to manage it for you while you learn. Security is an emergent property of every part of the stack, not a separate thing you can do after the fact. Get a handle on the fundamentals, too: fundamentals of TCP/IP, HTTP&#x2
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by forgotmyinfo 2y ago
Not sure what I'm doing, but whatever I'm using with uBlock Origin lets me click the media element to load it.
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by forgotmyinfo 2y ago
Huh, I didn't realize database performance correlates so strongly with stock price. Are there Prometheus metrics for this?
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by forgotmyinfo 2y ago
What did relational databases need from all the document DBs du jour? Broken transactions? Lack of ACID guarantees? Devil-may-care schemas?
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by forgotmyinfo 2y ago
That happened to esr, too, although he derailed right after 9/11, and it's been downhill ever since.
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by forgotmyinfo 2y ago
Well yeah, solving problems and thinking critically and learning are hard and boring. "Uncle Bob" gives you handy alhorisms you can spam on your next pull request and then feel like you've done something.
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by forgotmyinfo 2y ago
That's as ridiculous as saying "integer division will be useless in 20 years". Sometimes relational databases really are the optimal solution to certain problems. I really wish CS had better authority figures, although we sho
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by forgotmyinfo 2y ago
This is what happens when you hire 20-somethings who don't know how computers actually work to build your entire business. You either learn about relational databases in school, or through experience. Relational algebra has been around
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by forgotmyinfo 2y ago
Nonsense. Choosing the correct database isn't "premature optimization", it's the bare minimum of being a competent programmer. Why do we never have time to do it right, but we always have time to do it over?
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by forgotmyinfo 2y ago
Sorry, 100 times out of 100, "rapid prototyping" means "we built this with the wrong database, now we're stuck with it". If it isn't obvious how to store your data up front, then you either aren't planning
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by forgotmyinfo 2y ago
You mean vulnerable kids and developing teenagers don't want to be bullied and shot? Gosh, you could just knock me over with a feather.
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by forgotmyinfo 2y ago
It's funny, because a few thousand years ago, casting lots (like rolling dice) was considered a totally valid way of divining God's will. I guess this is a more elegant deity for a more... civilized age.
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by forgotmyinfo 2y ago
Unfortunately, language is fluid and changing. You can try to hang on by your fingernails, or you can go with the flow.
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by forgotmyinfo 2y ago
Yes, and when the climate changes too much, everything dies. I mean, I don't see too many dinosaurs left. The sheer hubris to think that it can't happen again...
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by forgotmyinfo 2y ago
Now? Read any comment section about climate change here, and a solid portion are just covert denial or people looking down on science and scientists. Some of it is people thinking they're smarter than they are, some of it is cognitive
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by forgotmyinfo 2y ago
If you have some data that shows that climate change doesn't have all of the negative outcomes that the predictions anticipate, you're welcome to share it. Consider that people are alarmed because the outcomes are actually just...
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by forgotmyinfo 2y ago
Anxiously awaiting all of the "this is good, akshually" posts while ten more people file for bankruptcy because they took an ill-timed ambulance ride to the ER.

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