joenada

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by joenada 5d ago
It goes into the soil and can take a long-ass time to get back into any our supply. Yes, it's still on earth, but it's no good to you if it's locked up in the soil or the polar icecaps. And that's not to mention the ridi
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by joenada 5d ago
This attitude is why the world is fucked.
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by joenada 5d ago
Statistically speaking, compared to non-fresh water and compared to how much we actually use as a species, there is very, very little fresh water available to us.
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by joenada 5d ago
Your question is already answered in the comment you're replying to.
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by joenada 6d ago
It matters because there's almost none as it is, and you don't collect 100% of the water you use just because it rains. Water gets polluted, trapped underground, locked up in glaciers.
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by joenada 6d ago
Because you're the only person on earth who matters, clearly. Also, it's not 3% of 2/3. It's more like ~1% of 3% of 2/3. Most of the fresh water on earth is locked up in glaciers or trapped deep underground. You can
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by joenada 6d ago
That's fresh water in general. Most of it is frozen. The amount you can actually use is a sliver.
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by joenada 6d ago
The difference is that automated tasks are (or should be) deterministic and reproducible, and taking up time devs could be using to do their actual job (writing code, solving technical problems, etc).
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by joenada 6d ago
This is satirical, right? They use fresh water, which is a tiny, tiny % of all water on earth.
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by joenada 6d ago
This thread is very depressing. Web dev bootcamps and product managers have done untold damage to the field of software engineering. And it's our own faults. We had it so good for so long. There was a period of time when programmers we
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by joenada 6d ago
You sound like a person who's never had their app pen tested. The attack surface is anything but small if you're working with any kind of sensitive data.
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by joenada 6d ago
Yes, that's fair. I'd argue, though, that the training required to get your team up and running should be fairly minimal - Kotlin is a very easy language to pick up, especially for people coming from TS - and will pay off dividend
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by joenada 6d ago
This is only anecdotal, but I had a review on a brand new app turned around in ~6 hours 2 days ago. A lot of it has always been luck of the draw, though, granted.
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by joenada 6d ago
Your assumptions are very outdated. App Store review times are typically < 24 hours and have been for the last couple of years. And KMP makes cross-platform a real thing now, rather than hacking a web view into a native shell, which was
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by joenada 27d ago
The age of "programmer tyranny", as you call it, was over long ago. Product manager tyranny has been the de facto regime in Big Tech for years. That's how we ended up with subscription models everywhere, enshittification, and
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by joenada 2mo ago
Obj-C and Autolayout were absolutely awful to work with. SwiftUI is at least the right idea for a UI framework, it's just been implemented horribly.
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by joenada 3mo ago
Burnham down the house.
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by joenada 10mo ago
Going? I think we got there a long time ago. I'm sure we all try our best but our industry doesn't take quality seriously enough. Not compared to every other kind of engineering discipline.
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by joenada 1y ago
Go code is outrageously ugly, and they'd rather you not highlight it.
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by joenada 1y ago
This guy writes.
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by joenada 1y ago
Not a technical project in the typical sense, but I finally started working on a satirical faux-exposé series about my years working in the industry. If anyone's interested in that kind of thing: https://massiveimpassivity.s