calvinmorrison

those libertarians almost certainly don't believe in asinine things like 'copyright'

well thats on point for microsoft branding

frankly with the level of complexity of IDEs, I just need a working product. In my mind it is closer to "photoshop" now than vim. I would probably pay for VSCode. I can't believe its f…

I for one have spent my career calling myself not a programmer but others think I'm half decent enough

maybe I am using interfaces the word differently. I mean interfaces as in a language construct, a library, or some programming mechanism to separate things out. Even if I only have -one backend- of so…

I've dealt with both. I am continually amazed that people not only pay for AWS, but that it is so complicated, and that they use it in all sorts of absurd ways, not even just hosting 'vms&#x…

How about the sellout of Joyent to Samsung?

Right like learning AWS is significantly harder than buying a big server and maintaining it

> There are surely cases where having an interface as an abstraction and multiple implementations makes sense. A tried and true way solve problems is by adding more layers of indirection, starting …

how about "this is illegal but with we have VC and an app it's now totally OK", see Uber's playbook.

Yes the Catholic Church still employs people besides priests but that's a good one!

for someone like VAG or UPS why not? You can only remember/cram so much context into a single persons head, at some point you gotta split it up. In IT, you rarely see companies having managers wi…

I mostly get away with xrdp, it works perfectly.

its just people underestimating what people do in their actual jobs. Every thing has a huge long tail of work. things like 'accounting' is obvious but there are entire jobs around just buyi…

My mum learned watching cowboy TV in the 60s and 70s. She's got some uh colloquialisms for sure

i am sorry that it bothers you

Some things just need to survive the crash. We have THREE drive in movie theaters within an hour of here. All are doing well. One doesn't even have a digital projector, and they almost closed mul…

libraries are also just daycares for... kids. My library (which is on my block) is only open a few hours week in which gainfully employed adults would be able to go. The rest is geared to grannies and…

Lets just name names. China. India.

There are pill counter machines! it's a solved problem for sure.

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If programmers play it right that'll be us working less and delivering the same results. Who said everything has to benefit the capital class?

and even as a provider, some are more aggressive than others. free.fr comes to mind

Having worked at a provider, that is not the psychology at all. The #1 priority is to keep the mail flowing. #2 incremental improvements to security, spam, reputation is a distant second. The other t…

Related, There was a local guy who was held 'in contempt' for 4 years for refusing to turn over his password/encryption key https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020…

its so honest (3 matches), genuine (2 matches)

Or maybe we stop hard forks and just automate rebasing unless there's significant deviation

how else can you get a cool PO Box.com email address without using fastmail though?

we should also flag any projects to do with the enshittification of the world. Probably banning all JS, node, bun, loaf or any other related projects would be good. Since we're talking about my o…

so much of AI is like, to me, used as was to generate basically dynamic applicaions. if we ever got anywhere with semantics, objects, etc, pushed html further, maybe we'd naturally have web clien…