Fighting among ourselves? You started it… ;-) I tried to debate you on facts and opinions. You made it personal in the response. Good one.
And yes, I do have a job. I work for a nonprofit-profit as a Software engineer. But you can guarantee I go “above and beyond”…? You don’t know me at all…
I love replies from people that seemingly only read the first line… Do you think your idea is so perfect it cannot be debated? Your ad-hominem response suggests so, and that makes you just as much of a snowflake as the rest of the red-hatted MAGA twats that are supporting this kind of shit.
I know you also probably didn’t read this far, but I’ll deal with points you raise anyway.
I don’t know to what “day” you are referring that people held their employers accountable…? Are you suggesting that thousands of Microsoft Engineers, Designers and Admin should leave the company because one of their shareholders is named in the Epstein files? Sure, there have always been those brave enough to stand against the masses and criticize. There always will be, but they are the minority and it’s a lot less common than you think.
And if you think you are one of those, go ahead: Spur on the masses to greater change. But “ditching microsoft products” isn’t going to change anything unless everyone does it and good luck with that.
Major social change is required. If you want to focus your anger on anyone, focus it on the Pedo in Chief.
Sure, stop buying Microsoft products because they’re shit. But beyond that? If revenues drop, they’ll fire half of the staff before they fire Gates. Besides, if they do fire him, what’s he gonna do? Buy a private island probably. Put another way, this would hurt average, working people far more than Gates.
I guess Microsoft are partly to blame. It’s not a good look is it? But, he’s also not be tried or found guilty so they’re not entirely at fault.
Instead focus your anger: Get out there and ask why he’s not been investigated? Why the people in power are seemingly closing ranks around this - are they all guilty? Vote for a progressive viewpoint that favors holding the ultra-rich accountable in all ways - legally, financially and morally
I get that you’re angry. What these people are accused of doing is truly evil. But take that anger and use it for something with consequence.
I agree with much of what you say, but the idea that this isn’t “gods” earth any more I find risible. Much of this was done in via religion which is a man-made system to capitalize on insecurity and fear.
I’m curious what you mean about “not participating in this fucked up world” and “sacrificing the privileges and comfort of the modern life”. For me, these are highly ambiguous phrases.
The problem is not a modern/permissive/whatever society but the inability of those on the right wing to tolerate anyone who is different and, as we are now finding out, to attempt to erase them. Love is the answer, and I tend to agree this is not compatible with current politics.
Everyone is focusing on the sex-act, but what about the Putin /photos part? This suggests strongly that Putin does have Kompromat on Trump, which is long suspected.
My suggestion is to be mindful of things you are doing and make decisions about continuing them or ending them and plan accordingly. I tend to recommend reading up on Stoicism as it help contextualize.
A more specific plan is to pick one thing you want to improve and practice that. Try and do this once a day and make it a habit. After you’ve adopted a couple of good habits, you’ll be ready to try stopping something, thought that is tougher to achieve.
SOLID is generally speaking a good idea. In practice, you have to know when to apply it.
it sounds like your main beef in Java is the need to create interfaces for every class. This is almost certainly over-engineering it, especially if you are not using dependency inversion. IMHO, that is the main point of SOLID. For the most part your inversions need interfaces, and that allows you create simple, performant unit tests.
You also mention OOP - It has it’s place, but I would also suggest you look at functional programming, too. IMHO, OOP should be used sparingly as it creates it’s own form of coupling - especially if you use “Base” classes to share functionality. Such classes should usually be approached using Composition. Put this another way, in a mature project, if you have to add a feature and cannot do this without reusing a large portion of the existing code without modifications you have a code-smell.
To give you an example, I joined a company about a year ago that coded they way you are describing. Since I joined, we’ve been able to move towards a more functional approach. Our code is now significantly smaller, has gone from about 2% to 60% unit testable and our velocity is way faster. I’d also suggest that for most companies, this is what they want not what they currently have. There are far too many legacy projects out there.
So, yes - I very much agree with SOLID but like anything it’s a guideline. My suggestion is learn how to refactor towards more functional patterns.
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