@PonySlaystation Lots of us don't, but still do this sort of stuff, only to cram it all in on a mega day or two.

@sideshowbob76, To be fair, if you've never been thrown in the fire before, then it could at least be that kind of learning experience for them. The times where I had no business doing what I was tasked with, have been some of my greatest moments of growth in my career.

I like taking notes in Markdown. I use Marker. I just store and organize directly in the file system using directories and descriptive names.

Good coding music for sure.

I always get this one instead:

Them: "So you program?"
Me: "Yes"
Them: "Hey listen... I have this multi-million dollar idea for an app. All you have to do is code it, and we could be rich."

Amazing how something as simple as this would need a license from Microsoft to operate. You'd think somebody by now would figure out that Linux can play videos.

@bittersweet WTF. I thought this was a joke, but you just blew my mind. A quote:

"Developed by Xerox and Canon in the mid-1980s, its existence became public only in 2004."

That is downright scary.

I have no problem having hobbies at home that involve being on the computer. I also have no shame in coming home and coding side projects. No apologies here for my love of working with computers and making my career around that.

Not me. I'm happy being full-on alone. Fuck anyone bothering that.

@Root @peapowder Prior to the 1970s, "liberal" in the U.S. meant the same as it does in other countries. My foreign wife was quite confused when I first explained things in America. Words can have quite the effect, and unfortunately, "libertarians" sometimes get overshadowed, since the term is not as common parlance. Weird state of affairs we're in.

@HiFiWiFiSciFi To be fair, your original comment here was pretty hardcore too.

@Oktokolo I'm not Christian nor conservative myself, but I do believe that there are more conservatives out there who are developers than people think.

We are only bombarded with the Silicon Valley/FAANG idea of a developer, but if you think about it, most developers are not doing that sort of work.

@HiFiWiFiSciFi Lots of Latinos have light-colored skin. I am one of them myself as well.

I hear you. I am a former mobile/desktop application developer, and when I moved to doing full-stack, I got very frustrated. It's taken me about a year to try to wrap my head around a lot of the front-end concepts. I am still not very good, but I can make stuff that works. If I had to be a full-time front-end developer, I'd shoot myself though.

I think part of is JavaScript's ridiculous syntax and behavior (hell even TypeScript sucks compared to something like C#), and part of it is the framework concepts.

@HiFiWiFiSciFi Voluntarism is antithetical to communism. Key point.

@C0D4 The thing is that the cloud markets itself as a replacement for your own physical infrastructure. With this sort of situation, this couldn't be further from the truth. I am not a Parler fan. I wouldn't have joined that site even if I could have now, but if this sort of thing continues with other sites, I think the cloud providers are going to start losing some customers who would've been all-in on their cloud otherwise.

Basically, alienate enough customers, and even goliaths have gone down.

@C0D4 That's where people come from when they talk about "collusion". What do you do if they all come down on you? Imagine if they had a failover to Azure. I don't think Microsoft would keep them around either.

You should have control over your own branch or fork. Not sure why you are so anxious to have your code get to master?

If you are required to have your code there by a deadline, your company should definitely re-evaluate that, because you have no control over other people.

This is one reason why open source exists. It's the reason that Linux has not been "bought" also, despite many companies wishing they could own/control it. Copyleft is also a thing depending on the license.

To answer your question, what would happen is that it would be forked, and anyone who was using it for its primary benefits would simply jump ship there.

@Oktokolo It's true. Outages are the number one reason why deployments are done on Fridays.

Ain't it the truth? My old manager left the company, and I got a new one. It's like night and day. I didn't realize how bad he was at managing people until new manager is in the picture.

He's not quite as good as the one in the screenshot, but he is far more focused on the job getting done than me being a slave to my company. In turn, all of our morale and productivity has increased. We have made massive strides because of him treating people reasonably.

I keep telling myself that I need to put my notifications in do not disturb mode specifically for this reason, but I always forget to do it. One day, I will probably be caught in some weird situation too. I'm sure that everyone will have these stories about their coworkers to share since we're all in the same situation right now.

@Lensflare As someone who learned C# and is now trying to learn good habits in C++, I can definitely see your point.

I should also point out that those of us who learned Java/C# first feel much the same way about Python and JavaScript devs. Unfortunately most university curriculum is starting to really default to Python insteadof Java these days. So this will only get worse.

@Stuxnet It is out of fear of being canceled themselves that the other companies run away. I am not a fan of Parler, but I can see this sort of thing going in an alarming direction.

Once you are deemed a deplorable, there is little recourse. I think this sort of issue will require some serious introspection and workarounds.

Not to get too political, but I feel like this sort of attitude is fueled by the outward-facing political climate in big tech. The idea of merit is thrown out the window in favor of some really destructive behaviors more often than in the past.

@gsdt If you always update, then you wouldn't have a forced reboot, and couldn't say definitively that it is fixable.

@gsdt So you don't update your systems?

@N00bPancakes Who said it was for no reason?

@dder I think, in terms of GUI over CLI, it depends on what you're doing. I'd never want to browse the web in a terminal. I'd never want to edit a video on a command line, etc.

The right tool should be used for the right job.

But relational database tables ARE like spreadsheets, just with stricter controls and have the ability to relate to other tables.