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if I commented on your post but we're not mutuals then it's probably because you turned up on my "For you" feed. If you found my interaction worthwhile then follow me, I'll follow back. I check in with the mutual list daily and interact when I have something to offer. I've found

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Hot take: if Linux did become the defacto desktop OS it would quickly be flooded with for-profit closed source software and a user base primarily interested in outcomes and ease of use, and not the OS itself. Traditional Linux users would become a marginalised minority and Linux

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@soliton100 Yeah that fits the bill.

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@mariia__t It’s a good book. But I’d suggest treating it like a repository of wisdom rather than - what some do - a rule book. The bit that makes you a good software engineer is building the experience and perspective to appreciate when (and when not) to insist on using an approach,

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The truth is that if PowerShell was made by a random person in Nebraska it would be the hottest property in shell technology, but because it's a Microsoft product it gets mostly ignored.

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@corb555 It’s BSD under the hood but similar vibes.

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@ziademarcus That’s kind of the point. People won’t care about that. The same way the avg Mac user doesn’t care about BSD, and the average Android user doesn’t care about the Linux kernel. It’ll be normie o’clock.

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@RishiSunak Says the party that held a nation-changing referendum without a plan…

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@DaisyNyna Diet is the primary driver for weight gain and weight loss. Exercise is complimentary to diet when it comes to weight loss.

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@KenMacLeod20 Yes of course. And that simply emphasises my point: Most Android users don’t care about the Linux kernel in their phones. Android is a normie consumer landscape.

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@dreadolph @docsmsft @shanselman How are things in 2005 mate?

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@SuburbanTugTime Most of the Linux users I interact with seem to spend most of their time “doing Linux” and telling people they “do Linux”. Maybe it’s a developer thing but that’s the overriding impression I get.

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@planticnap Yeah but... adults only behave like adults in front of children, at work, and at weddings and funerals. The rest of the time they're just big kids with no bed time.

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How much ram did your first computer have? Mine: 1K

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@TechSpot Clickbait title. Lazy journalism.

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@jimnasyum @UpdatingOnRome At first I thought it was a joke about those Americans who think they’re Italian…

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@davidfowl Cruel not to show the output. :)

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@lyovson I doubt most users would notice the difference. Power users already have options.

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Remember back when senior devs would recommend not using https because of the “performance impact”?

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@HotSauceVince It’s come a long way since Slackware 1.01 for sure.

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@eloffd This is also a terrible idea:

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You won’t lose your job because AI can replace you. You will lose your job because some asshat thinks that AI can replace you.

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@BrodieOnLinux Most users just need a boot-to-browser experience.

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The .com boom was 25 years ago. Who else was there?

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@loftwah Wallace for sure. He’ll have lots of stories, will sleep at his desk from 2:30pm and likely to stop turning up one day. 🫡

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@ImLunaHey Fast local development > personal cloud stack.

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@duolingo What did you break? I tried to open the app at 23:55 and it keeps crashing.

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What is legacy code? When does code become legacy?

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@DanielW_Kiwi I hope your friend is hand-writing his own unit tests.

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@sweatystartup @ZubyMusic This depends a lot on what he does day-to-day. He has 2 kids and a partner. There is wealth beyond money that comes from being fully present with the people in our lives. Nobody ever wished they spent less time with their kids but there are plenty who are so obsessed with money

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Trauma Driven Development

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For those who are familar with bash. I found this sort of thing useful as my shell experience is mostly from *nix. The commands look verbose, but the console integration is really good, including argument completion.

PowerShell equivalents for common Linux/bash commands

The majority of my colleagues have more of a Linux background than Windows. So their cat and their grep are near and dear to their heart and their first refl...

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There's a fine line between cloud computing and clown computing. Make sure your team can: * Code locally * Verify locally * Run end-to-end locally Your Cloud-focused CI pipeline should be a formal verification that the work you pushed from your desktop is correct. If you have

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Anybody else here just building things with appropriate tools and not give a flying frog about nailing their colours to a mast re: OOP vs functional, framework vs framework, clean code vs evolutionary design, modular monoliths vs microservices, etc. etc. I literally spend most

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@JulesJacobs5 Handy when the script running as root has global write permissions…

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@t3dotgg People joining computer programming courses who have never coded is a bit like somebody turning up to mechanic school never having had their hands oily. It is unusual. I dunno what the beef is tbh.

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I reckon my 40s were my peak tech decade. 50s are kinda dull. Can’t seem to find anything I actually find interesting anymore. Curious if this is a post-2020 slump caused by lockdown fatigue (surely should be over that by now?), the dullness of wfh, wrong job, same sh*t different

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@DanielW_Kiwi It's my default browser on Windows 10 Pro.

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@CityCoderUS The correct answer is “Ask my wife”.

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@willmcgugan Be nice to developers over 40. You’ll be over 40 one day, if you’re lucky.

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I’ve worked remotely for 12 years and I have to disagree. People need to not project their home life onto others. I have an office at home and when the door is closed M-F 9-5 nobody comes in. I also have headphones and do most of my focus work to relaxing music. Vastly better

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Wtf is a "dynamic and vibrant" team anyway? Sounds suspicious.

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Office cubicles are underrated. Open plan is overrated.

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I graduated CS in mid-90s. As a contractor I've had a placement every 1-2 years on average. So that's a lot of jobs and screening. I have been asked to prove my degree once, and that was in 2022. As for my degree. There are parts of it that form fundamental knowledge. But the

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been doing this for idk how long now. have never once been asked what degree i have. it’s funny how it’s always the ones with degrees trying to push that it has any kinda of relevance.

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I’m silently judging your misuse of “then” and “than”.

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@KenMasterson @SuburbanTugTime I’ve never visited a Linux forum. Linux users are like vegetarians, they have to tell you. :)

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@karinemellata They didn’t even proofread it? omg

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@bojbojbojbojboj It’s just an unfounded hot take. An idle thought.

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Here's why I'm not worried: If "a Devin" really does deliver on the marketing (that'll be a first) then it's going to make our essential core skills even more valuable because history has proven that non-technical people are generally unable/unwilling to handle the mental

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@purplepingers Teach them financial literacy 101. Nobody in the school will.

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@WheatWatcher We travel to get away from other Aussies. The worst thing an Aussie can hear while holidaying abroad is a distant “yeeeeeeaaah”.

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@loftwah Jurassic Park was pretty realistic. As least in the following: * underfunded * understaffed * lack of risk mitigation * lone wizard / no oversight * poor incident management

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Anybody who has a standing desk and have been using it for over 3 months, what's your 3-month review? For example, how often do you stand what's an 8-hour day like? If you also have a walking platform, how is that going?

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@jakubtomsu_ To be fair, it is example code from documentation and there’s some significant code at the end of the example to release resources. Sometimes verbosity conveys information better and this is arguably true in this case.

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@HackingBaseball JavaScript

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@janetacarr More a reflection of stackoverflow respondents than a reflection of reality.

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@RCBakerRealtor @GayBearRes That’s because when we grew up all of our old people were drafted into wars and we respected them for that. Old people now are not the same and frankly deserve a bit of a shakedown from time to time. Most of them were fucking in fields and taking drugs at the age our old people

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Why don’t you have a Ham Radio license?

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@anerdguynow I always upgrade behind the curve. Same case for ~19 years and then I upgrade bits and pieces as I need them, always behind the curve. I’ve never missed not having a kick-ass expensive PC.

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@Hamdi33727935 There's a section about that on wikipedia.

C Sharp (programming language) - Wikipedia

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@drecksuser @England Small lives dwell on negativity.

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@AdamRackis You can disagree with his politics, but maybe attack his opinions instead of his industry relevance. And have the balls to @ him.

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Let's replace this: "Wow look at me! Nobody else can do this! I am such a rockstar!" With this: "I'm such a rockstar that anybody can pick up my code and work with it. I put my effort into simplicity and ease of communication."

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@KevinBankston @Google AI assistants are the modern always-on-top splash screen. Nobody asked for them, nobody wants them. Only the product team like them.

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@DanielW_Kiwi I just buy a Windows Pro license and wipe the consumer device. Do a fresh install.

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@Alkibiades_ I’m so glad the average age at my work is 45.

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@PortlyNord Yeah, and the one with beef is called a beef burger. Wtf is the drama?

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On anti-patterns. Forget code and design for a moment. What is the worst human-behaviour-anti-pattern you've seen a programmer exhibit?

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@MrsNickyClark @vbspurs You never dressed up for an occasion when you were ten?

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@Mark_Butler_MP You forgot to mention that adult ex-smokers are now being forced to purchase substandard products from an effective pharma-cartel at 5-10x the price with flavours and strengths that are cigarette-aligned and pose a huge risk of forcing people back on the smokes.

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@ImLunaHey zeroday

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I have over 30 years experience on high profile projects. I can point to products on that I’ve worked on, and point to news events related to projects I’ve worked on. From big name .com projects, national and international household names, moments in time,

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@ImLunaHey The debt-ridden middle class thinking they are participants in capitalism and not victims of it.

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@Rothmus This suggests that the middle of the road is smartest, which I think is demonstrably incorrect. Maybe flatten that curve a bit and give more credit to the people left and right of centre.

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@JRaynovic A pop-up that is timed appear just after I’ve started reading. Instant close.

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@MadiSP4321 I don’t have any tips for the ladies, but I do have some tips to pass to the men who will be scrolling the comments: After a few months with somebody you will eventually start to recognise early signs that your partner is pre-menstrual. Symptoms differ but you’ll figure it out.

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@peteralexbizjak I suspect that if it did happen there would be bigcorp distros that provided the sort of "corporate comfort" that MS and others offer for a fee.

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I once worked with an SME/BA who had a math degree. He would take the requirements and “solve” them for a single user (using Excel) and then write his spec in mathematical notation. He was adamant that he had done all the work and that all the “coders” had to do was “turn the

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@danielcranney CP/M on an RM 380Z. I was about 10 years old. Didn't have a clue what I was getting myself into...

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Think I'm going to have to do some functional programming. Tempted to stay in the .NET ecosystem and do some F#. What would be a good reason to venture elsewhere?

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What's missing?

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Me: refusing to acknowledge a skill because I’ve only used it for a year and haven’t yet shipped to multi-million dollar project with it. Guy in my mentions: calling themselves an expert after a two-hour tutorial and a to-do list.

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@fikrigha @ThePrimeagen A bad workman blames his tools.

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@rgigger All those devs using WSL2 just a few more updates away from switching.

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@ShawnaStaffReal I call myself a programmer because that’s what I enjoy doing. My employers call me an engineer because that’s what they pay me to do.

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@_PatrickGod Debugger.Launch() - handy for those times when attaching a debugger isn’t feasible.

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A great way to measure a prospective employee's maturity is to ask them their option of C#. Don't stop at the first response though (it'll be like the quote), press them a little and see where they go. You'll find some people remain shallow while others will take you on a journey

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F# seems cool but a lot of people including myself are probably not gonna try it simply because it's .NET and Microsoft.

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@lisyarus There was a time when Lotus 1-2-3 was the King of Spreadsheets and Excel had to smooth the migration path to kill the King...

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A good developer looks both ways when crossing a one-way street.

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You’ll never learn to play guitar by watching great guitarists. At some point you have to put in the hours and develop skills through repetitive practice. Programming is the same.

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@ItokVlad As English is just French with bad pronunciation, it follows that all programming languages are actually French, but badly pronounced. 🙃

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@GavelCoding it worked :)

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@grepmoney I've embedded it into a desktop application so that it ran in the same process space as the application and gave me full access to examine the underlying data structures of the application. Very useful for on-site support of works in progress and beta apps. I also use it for

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@ImpossibleScott I’ve experienced this with over-confident humans too.

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@ProfMarkMaslin Do you have a larger data sample so that we can see this incontext? Also, as a professor at ucl (according to your profile) you might not want to misuse a term like "superheated" as it devalues your message.

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wtf is this about? I literally come here to talk with my mutuals.

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The coding part of my job is about 80% thinking and 20% typing and mouse twiddling. One thing I really like about WFH is that I don't have to do the thinking part sat at a desk.

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@jeffwilcox Backend skills.

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@IterIntellectus There has to have been a sweet spot where we were comfortable in small self-protecting groups and managed to live maybe ~30 years of absolute bliss of open air, sunshine, and hunting and eating together. How many days lazing in the sun with a full belly surrounded by your kin

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