• 1 Post
  • 246 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 18th, 2023

help-circle

  • Usenet is the way but I’ve never witnessed someone who torrents see the light in a penny comment thread. Few people truly understand opsec and how to quantify their own risk surface, but those who do will gravitate towards Usenet.

    Speed is also a factor. Casuals don’t understand what it is to grab a release before a torrent has found the first seeder.






  • A rockstar developer doesn’t churn out unmaintainable, by definition.

    The number of people who think they are rockstar developers but clearly aren’t is probably close to the number of cover bands who see themselves as undiscovered rockstars.

    I’ve worked with people like this, their best hope is to fail upwards into management.

    The only way to know if you are competent coder is for other coders to tell you. If none are telling you, your imposter syndrome isn’t.

    There are other signs as well but these aren’t taught in formal education. An example being the ability to recognize how your old code could be improved. The way requirements stack over time makes this a certainty in any product.














  • This is a trash analogy because everyone knows Nazis hate Israel, it’s part of their ideology.

    A former republican vice president endorsing a democratic president candidate is note worthy because it’s goes faint their ideology.

    That you choose to reach for Nazis to make your argument is the clearest Godwin Law I’ve witnessed in a long time.