[-] Noughmad@programming.dev 184 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Team restructuring" is so much fun, you never know what you're going to get.

Your boss's boss now reports to a slightly different VP? Everyone is getting fired? No way to know which it's going to be, until the end of the meeting.

[-] Noughmad@programming.dev 42 points 1 year ago

Where are the bridges? How do you walk from one side to the other?

Oh yeah, right, of course. But how do you even drive from one side to the other?

[-] Noughmad@programming.dev 33 points 1 year ago

There's a great test for programmers called FizzBuzz. It's an extremely easy task - print some numbers (maybe 1 to 100), but replace them with Fizz if they're divisible by 3, by Buzz if they're divisible by 5, or by FizzBuzz if they're both.

Many reasonable people consider it way too easy - if you can write this, it doesn't mean that you can write complex programs, or that you know the applicable languages, or that you know anything about the business domain.

But interviewers know that it's a great test because a lot of so-called programmers still fail it.

[-] Noughmad@programming.dev 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Market != Capitalism. You can have a free market without capitalism, and capitalism without a free market.

The hexbears will attack me for saying that a regulated free market is good and a planned economy is bad. The others will attack me for saying that capitalism is bad and that we should have market socialism instead. But if we can't have that, a capitalist free market has proven much less bad than any planned economy, as long as it's regulated enough that it stays free.

[-] Noughmad@programming.dev 46 points 1 year ago

No, there was another one, interestingly at the exact same time, in Poland. They don't like that one either.

[-] Noughmad@programming.dev 99 points 1 year ago

Yeah, you can call yourself a leftist all you want, but when 90% of your posts is calling Biden and Zelensky Nazis but you never criticize Putin or Trump, I get certain doubts.

[-] Noughmad@programming.dev 35 points 1 year ago

Just more proof that it was never about mRNA.

[-] Noughmad@programming.dev 82 points 1 year ago

Whenever I hear people saying this, I always think of that guy who put chili powder and mint into his mouth at the same time.

Yes, it sounds like it should cancel out. No, in reality it definitely doesn't.

[-] Noughmad@programming.dev 49 points 1 year ago

If course not, it's to apply for a job. It's a WORK API.

[-] Noughmad@programming.dev 110 points 1 year ago

Congratulations to the lottery company who was allowed to advertise a $400m prize as $1.28b.

[-] Noughmad@programming.dev 47 points 1 year ago

I worked and paid for my property too, what makes you think it's ok to pollute it with your oversized car?

[-] Noughmad@programming.dev 40 points 1 year ago

Every platform is nice at the start, for mainly the reason you say: people who join early have an interest in the platform, so we actually try to keep it nice.

Then every successful new platform gets its own eternal september. A large influx of people who don't care about the platform at all, they just want to use it to talk to people. And of these, yes many are still nice people, but also many aren't.

You see this in all kinds of communities, not just online. If you're in a new or niche hobby, everybody there will have an interest in improving the hobby and the small community, so it will probably be very nice. When it gets mainstream (I'm looking at MTG here, but other people probably know other examples) then it starts to attract people who do nothing but complain.

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