justaaron

good riddance

printscreens. it uses a very unfortunately named program called "scrot" which brands it's poor taste in autonomenclature upon every filename (NSFW, requiring some filename munging) but works fine, otherwise.

indeed. we all live on yachts drinking champagne in bikinis while floating in the top-deck swimming pool on one of those flamingo floaty toys.

everyone is rich and it's like the entire 20th century of human liberation didn't happen. does sugar daddy approve of my makeup?

Would Wishbone be appropriate?

"proof of work" blockchain-based crypto-currencies deliberately waste power and continually increase this wastefulness by design over time.

bitcoin proof-of-work complexity increased 4x in 2018 alone.

no amount of renewables CAN cover this, nor should they, as it's bad design and should be phased-out for something else.

invent that "something else" and you will have done something useful.

One should always view the source code, of course.

It surely ISN'T proof-of-work blockchain crypto-currencies as currently implemented.

I suppose that there is really very little pressure upon current crypto-currency implementations to alter their fundamentally flawed idea, as long as the currency can "pay for" itself LOL

Externalities. They have successfully externalized the problems they are causing on to everyone else.

Tell me more about the exponentially increasing pollution/costs of printing money, please.

Tell me more about strawman arguments.

I specifically alleged that "proof of work" is a bad idea.

"burn more natural gas instead of coal" - says the author.

sciencing hard bro...

where are your morals and sense of proportion? does the word "methane hydrates" or "permafrost" ring a bell? let's focus on attacking particular models because surely the world needs more people attacking climate science.

This needs to be pushed into the public eye more. There's a lot of green-washing going on in crypto-currency publicity, as of late, and it needs to be emphasized how the MODEL is fundamentally broken. (Example: Proof of work complexity quadrupling in 2018 alone.)

It's socially irresponsible, at this juncture in time, to be promoting such schemes. At this point in history it's abundantly clear that "alternative islands" cannot avoid confronting the "mainstream morass" as the "mainstream morass" is currently on a direct collision course with life itself.

There are also plenty of thieves in the world. Must we all become one "in order to remain competitive"?

Until such a time that I don't find ALL programming info on Medium.com or it's subsites I will continue to decry this increasing centralization of content.

The web is our tool for liberation and this is a subversion of the very principles that the web was founded upon.

It's not a dead horse! 99.999999% of all Flutter tutorial content is on Medium, it seems!

Medium is NOT our community info-repository, but rather the Facebook of blogging, centralizing content further.

Until such a point that the international programming community ceases to centralize ALL INFO EVER on Medium.com we should beat this non-dead horse for all it's worth!

it had better be electric...

...wasting renewable energy power that could be replacing non-renewable energy for actually useful stuff, instead of wasting it doing "proof of work" calculations designed to perpetually increase in complexity.

see "Niagara falls communities see factories paying more per kw/h due to crypto miners using up all the cheap electricity" types stories over the last 3-4 years.

as a former afficionado, I can't see an ecological upside to crypto-currencies. (yet another coffin nail for us...)

ES5

I'll go further. I'm of the opinion that paywalled articles don't belong here on HN, as it limits the public discourse possible, and as HN should not serve as a funnel for peoples paywalled web sites. Downvote me for stating this opinion, rather than the factually factual fact I got downvoted for stating.

nice. someone downvotes me for pointing out a fact.

medium. paywalled.

I don't agree with most of these points, nor do I find the tone of the author to be particularly productive, as they are effectively swinging bladed weapons around while blindfolded.

They propose a number of personal beliefs about what constitutes competency, whereas I will contend that there is no "silver bullet" by which a non-programmer (or XYZ profession) may assess the competency of the potential hire.

I could write a different article on programmers who seek to undermine existing code in order to get a green field project out of it. While I can completely comprehend what may lie behind a total rewrite (and have plowed through some rather thick ones) I would be wary of hiring such a rigidly ideological person who suggested "throwing it all away and doing it over" as this person is likely somewhat obtuse in their own way.

Human factors also matter.

the writing is FUNNY!

performance. the Dart VM is one thing. C and C++ are closer to the bare metal.

Can we please have a moratorium on Medium articles? They are now a paywalled site and even content providers are invited to pay to view their bloated blog pages. The site itself offers nothing in addition to the content we freely provided them.

maybe consider https://amberframework.org/ it's fast. type-safe, and imitates scaffolding and other rails features...

up to the point that we see actual infrastructural collapse. I mean, I've seen Jeri Elsworth bake her own transistors in the oven and stuff (each one being about the size of your hand) but somehow I can't picture a chip fab based upon such transistors... call me old fashioned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qph8BNrnLY

I have the (admittedly subjective) sensation that I read a similar blog article just about every week. As the author aknowledges the various opposing points, we could, perhaps, sensibly surmise that it's contextually dependent.

1) claiming dominion to the entire world, implied by over 800 military bases in over 70 countries, implied by a "central command" pertaining to the middle-east and central asia

2) political grandstanding using the supposedly neutral mechanism of courts (grand jury trials...) to push political agendas and punish leaking in leiu of the actual malfeasance leaked about

3) unilateral sanctions that require 3rd party nations to comply with the USA's wishes over who it does and doesn't do business with. Said Huawei executive awaiting extradition from Canada to the USA is facing 30 years for trading with the Iranians against the US wishes.

4) claims of exemption from internationalism, the International Criminal Court, and general specialness with regards to following the rules-based structures many of which the US was initially instrumental in forming.

5) Establishing an international order of overtly authoritarian leaders while paying lip service to democracy. See Egypt (Mubarak and now his former general, Sisi) and Kissingers work with Pinochet and Allende for classic examples.

The US is arguably one of the most authoritarian nations on earth, trading in the pure hypocrisy of outright lying and denial when confronted with the reality of it's empire.

It's not a bloodless empire nor even very stable, by former imperial standards. It's certainly an empire, and thus authoritarian by definition. See "etymology" of the word "authority"

+ midi!

indeed. this is largely legacy, but good luck changing that. I can't say that i miss it much, but then I don't work for either of these 2 entities. I'm familiar with what you are speaking about, so I don't think the lack of respect stems from a general ignorance of what you are referring to. It's rather people who have interacted with PHP in the past and didn't enjoy the experience.

I'm familiar with the usage stats on wordpress, lol. I can't say that this is a good thing, but if it suits your needs, have at it.

I see no reason to start any greenfield project in 2019 in PHP unless you literally only know or ever want to learn PHP. I could be wrong in terms of the entire language and it's ecosystem could have changed in the 18-20 years since I deliberated interacted with it last... We have a lot of things since mod php, so there's many other options, most of which don't involve PHP, so I suppose true fans will build their web apps in forth, I dunno...