[-] expr@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago

Yep. It does increasingly feel like developers like me who find it deeply disturbing and problematic for our profession and society are going to increasingly become rarer. Fewer and fewer people are going to understand how anything actually works.

[-] expr@programming.dev 6 points 5 months ago

Yes, he is a dumbass, but frankly this is exactly what's needed. More and more of his base having reality hit them in the face, complaining loudly, and fracturing his support.

[-] expr@programming.dev 6 points 7 months ago

The billionaires are the real problem. Targeting anyone else is just a distraction.

[-] expr@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago

Paw Patrol is a very fascist show meant to teach fascist ideology to kids, just so you know: https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/22/health/thomas-tank-engine-paw-patrol-fascist-cartoon-strauss/index.html

This isn't a criticism, it's easy to for stuff like this to slip past parents' radar. But I'd strongly recommend switching to a different show.

[-] expr@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago

I'm a senior software engineer with a pretty uncommon skill set. Recruiters are the primary way that companies hire in my industry outside of networking contacts and I get contacted frequently. The job before my current one was through a recruiter.

I very much dislike Microsoft and LinkedIn in general, but not using it all is a huge handicap that isn't worth taking on.

[-] expr@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago

Nah, it's all hyped up bullshit that has to be babysat and manipulated to a degree that you may as well just write your damn code.

But beyond that, I'd argue that it's actually damaging for engineering organizations, because it means the org is incurring the maintenance cost of code not written by its engineers and that has no real thought put behind it. Maybe you can eventually coax it to produce code that's not completely broken shit, but it's code that your org doesn't actually "own" from a maintenance and knowledge-base perspective. The social aspect of code maintenance with this shit is always massively overlooked.

[-] expr@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago

I definitely write pseudocode like this, albeit perhaps with some more shorthand. It's commonly taught this way too.

[-] expr@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

Why in the ever-loving fuck would it do that? My hatred of Go only continues to grow.

[-] expr@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

Only if using JSON merge patch, and that's the only time it's acceptable. But JSON patch should be preferred over JSON merge patch anyway.

Servers should accept both null and undefined for normal request bodies, and clients should treat both as the same in responses. API designers should not give each bespoke semantics.

[-] expr@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

There are a number of blue cities in the Midwest. What's the lowest temp you want? I live in Lincoln, Nebraska and it's pretty great: nice weather most of the year, low cost of living, blue city, tons of parks. Only downside is dealing with red state bullshit from the state government.

[-] expr@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

Oh you mean stuff nobody actually asked for?

[-] expr@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

GDPR is really designed to target software controlled by a single entity, but this isn't that. The instances are responsible for their content, full stop. There's no way of forcing an instance to delete content, and even if there were, since the admins are running it, there's nothing stopping them from removing such a feature.

There's also nothing stopping admins from deleting content from their servers (it's just a database, after all).

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