democracy

Depends on if you think Pepsi drinkers are somewhat less intelligent and need a bit of lecturing

"could land a job by passing yourself as a "programmer" which meant you knew the syntax of a programming language such as Pascal or Cobol"

Never and nowhere

Just don't try to rebuild Netscape navigator please

I was making good buck being ie6 expert, wish the tech didn't progress that quickly ))

Best sarcasm is when u r not quite sure .. ))

Copilot is great to do boilerplate, it guesses and completes code correctly most of the time

Ask your VB veteran about the same topics ))

Haha not really, only as BAs or manager's maybe...

Nah, not true by any means

Clueless manager's idol named Elon said it's time for "fat trimming".

Ok, and you are wrong

As someone who started with speccy and cp/m I hate command line - and also nothing beats good commander like FAR Manager for simple stuff

personal experience?

It is the best asset to hold if you local currency goes -5% every day. Easy to buy (officially and not), easy to liquidate, can be used as unofficial currency for trade

sometimes your "forex banking services" are dodgy people on the street - that's how late USSR functioned...

Last time i checked it's still gonna suffer from 51% attack? Or its ECDSA implementation might have NSA backdoor?

There is no stats how many people were robbed, how many accounts where hijacked, how many keys were guessed (due to crap implementations) etc. I think there was no other technology in the world that lost so much of people's cash with no responsibility of any kind.

Yeah, just like gold - if you lived in 860 AC and thought copper was gold too - then it's a valid comparison!

...another fairytale about people in poor countries using crypto ))))

Nothing beats good old USD or EURO as an asset if you live in a country with hyperinflation.

Your dad didn't understand the philosophy of Bitcoin. It is more about to fool the unbanked and to unbank the fooled. Not the other way around, remember!

Crypto failed to deliver in any area and it is still a solution in search of a problem. The only real use-case is is money transfer to/from sanctioned countries and other dark markets - not that much of a "bleeding-edge" technology we are enthusiastic about )))

First of all there never was anything "cutting edge". It was a nice prototype of p2p application for large and slow decentralized payments - a very niche thing for very niche audience with a questionable mechanism in the form of Proof-of-work. But at least the argument of "unregulated currency" made sense to regular folk. The get-rich-quick hype that followed killed any reason or logic in this area. The following NFTs was a joke even to those who believed in the "next currency" idea. The following ideas of pyramids that mint you money while you stake your coins (I think) got even the most gullible ones reject it )))

Because blockchain, bitcoin and cryptography! You just don't lose money with bitcoin. It's mathematically impossible. Even if you lose money with bitcoin - it's good for bitcoin. It's free currency. Democracy. Bank the unbanked.

"staff, principal, senior principal, distinguished/fellow/God tier"

wow people do love their titles )))

Frankly I miss these annoying outlook calendar notifications, these days nothing comes close to be that invasive )

It's possible, in one of my jobs the senior project manager was found to hold a stake in one of the outsourcing companies working for us and was terminated under conflict of interest.

that could be a great feature of a new product - "your jira is full? time to move on to...." ))

I was a fan but don't recommend Hetzner any more, the quality of their hardware and support is subpar comparing to AWS/GCP but I guess you get what you pay for - for some workloads/use cases it doesn't really matter, does it.

is it what dropbox did back in the days eh? ))

Of course they are using DX or OpenGL - how else are they supposed to display graphics? )

Yeah, it beats unity in terms of development speed BUT if you use their internal script, I think with c# that would be somewhat similar?

Aseprite is doing it. Compile for free or pay 20$ for the binary. I compiled once but the next time I just thought to hell with it and bought it on Steam )