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Wonder if the VC crowd also has a problem with European universities (which of course, are mostly free) or if it's just the US ones...

And here comes all the AI content flooding every niche ad-words style....

(also I don't agree on not rolling back, I want one branch to always be the actual code living on prod, or else you end up with arbitrary time wasting rabbitholes of accidentally debugging code that isn't live)

Don't all action runners allow you to re-run tests and builds with a click of a button and most platforms allow rolling back to any arbitrary commit number?

I have never seen any of the above issues.

i just want you to exist in this little do block right here, don't need to name you, don't want anyone else to call you, but you need to do some things

you either love meta programming or you hate it, and if you love it enough, you also sometimes hate it :D

I really love this synth, and I really love this software model.

You can support with a subscription, but it's not a scammy "we hope you forget to cancel this", you literally get the credit from your subscription to buy the full thing.

You don't have to buy anything! The code is free as in speech and in beer, but if you actually use the software for what it is used for, you get a lot of amazing benefits from doing so (ie; I'm a programmer, but if I'm making music I don't always want to be making presets, sometimes I just want to hear a bunch)

There's (less) danger of the company just going backrupt and being locked into their bitrot because the code can be forked and maintained (can is not will, but makes me feel better)

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the kind and chaotic good senior programmer that will help you fix things you didn't know were broken yet, help unblock other team members, form good relationships with your product people, and encourage people to write less code quicker with more tests

I'm not saying there are no use cases for a JS framework, and I have a few I like, just that the switch to rails api only/separate react app has in almost every case I've seen added tons of complexity without a clear win

I mean arguably I'd want a country that cares more about human rights in the world than it's own currency on an open market, without even saying that this is what the US is doing here.

But the US also couldn't act unilaterally in these sanctions so I'm not sure that comes into play so much

Honestly my hope (and I admit as a full-stack but leaning back-end developer to be biased against JS) is that the future is in things like turbo-stream, stimulus reflex, phoenix liveview etc - or in things like all_futures (essentially an ActiveRecord wrapper around kredis) - that we move towards building reactive-apps by firing off events from the back-end and figuring out how to subscribe to them on the front-end

the amount of confusing boilerplate I've seen to keep updated and maintained when a JS framework is loading front-end state by making API requests against a backend and then trying to figure out how to keep those in sync when we could just be firing off SSR HTML over the wire and/or very thin events that FE components can subscribe to or emit for literally no gain in functionality is beyond me

even better, just add reactive sprinkles over what you need reactive and do the rest with standard MVC/REST patterns, if most of what you are using react for is glorified forms, you don't need react for that! user your reactive sprinkles of notification toasts, and chat channels...

I think there is a hacker news law that says that any post about a feature of a language or framework will eventually devolve into a general argument about whether that language or framework is good or not, and have nothing to do with the specific feature :D

If I'm checking my email, I may as well use 2FA.

What I want is smarter auth systems that are better at determining how weird something is. Is it completely secure, no, but for example Heroku now has a ridiculously short session timeout, even when I'm logging in from the same browser, same machine, same IP address, come back to check something a few hours later and I'm completely logged out. Why?

I must say I'm confused about hating passwords as a /developer/ though. Even the smallest web frameworks generally have well-documented frequently used auth solutions. Setting up users/passwords and even 2FA at this point is basically a lego block everywhere.

Perhaps that's a comment on the current state of "business" and funding and not quite the endorsement you make it out to be

Behaviors also don't exist in a vacuum, they exist as responses to things, and while some of us want more professionalism at work and some of us less (often for good reasons), there are probably also situations in which shouting loudly in response to something, is way less "toxic" that not pushing back against it.

I would say that in a healthy work environment, there is both an awareness that both actions and intentions matter, and that we all bring our own sensitivities to the table, and it matters less whether a person is "right" or "not", that the feelings that come up can be addressed.

For example, I have seen people, from my perspective, take code reviews far too personally. I have also seen people, from my perspective, be far too personally insulting in code reviews. I am sure from others perspectives those lines would have been drawn in different places. But that's less important than can that be resolved - maybe it can be resolved by getting someone to change their PR style, and maybe it can be resolved by helping someone understand that no one on the team thinks they are dumb and actually understanding that no one meant any comment personally is an important part of growth...

But in my experience in both organizations and relationships is that "what comes up" is less important that "how it is resolved" - because stuff always comes up - we're humans, with our big messy selves that feel lots of things, whether we want to or not or whether the feeling even comes from this circumstance or not

rental units are not the same as a house you want to buy, even regardless of location and amenities and size etc

It also depends on what /you/ setup - eg, you can certainly control some things locally and some things only through the cloud if you are using the manufacturers hub, but most things you can also buy a zwave stick and/or a zigbee stick and connect to your devices directly.

Some are a perpetual cat and mouse game though for the companies that simply must snoop your data as part of their biz model or have another reason to be terrified of you directly talking to their things.

And like any smart thing you put in your house, some things you need to block at the DNS level if they are hardwired to phone home constantly. But yes, Home Assistant and choosing the right things makes it possible to keep everything internal for sure

yeah, I don't even need the NC integration, I use a reverse proxy with SSL, but I pay the $5 a month just because they are doing such a frigging amazing job with a giant project and I want to pay something for it so they can keep doing it full time!

I have slowly gone all in on Home Assistant over the past 5 years and I think it is an amazing community, and amazing open-source success story, and fantastic software.

I will say that programming your house yourself can be fun (you can literally do anything) but you also have to then keep up with all the technical debt and changes over time. I still don't think it's a great choice for non technically minded folks that would find that level of tinkering and fixing overwhelming - but I must say that Home Assistant is moving positively in that direction by really focusing on UX - and having a giant community keeping integrations updated, even unofficial reverse-engineered ones, is great.

There is also a pretty severe housing shortage in most urban areas. I'm not so sure prices are going to be that sensitive to interest rates, however they could be sensitive to purchasing power. But historically, US housing is so much cheaper to buy than say, any country in Europe, it can sustain quite some rise.

Funny how a strong social safety net and lack of inequality tend to make societies with a norm of participation and solidarity. The Scandinavian countries aren't all the same, are dealing with their own problems of homogeneity and integration challenges, etc - but always funny when the Economist doesn't say the quiet part out loud.

Maybe someday web 7.0 will remember than engagement doesn't equal quality and there's a long enough tail of people that would pay for a good search engine that they'd support your small company just fine, and the hockey sticks, venture capitalists, and the masses can go drown in adwords.

SO search results have also been broken for about 8 years unless you know how to filter for recent results. There is no good search on the internet anymore. I'm to the point where I wish I could !g2 bang DDG to go to the first result on the second page of search results.

Still not comparable - Even in say Thessaloniki, the price of a large SFH in most cities in the US (we'll leave off NYC and SF) will be comparable to the price of an apartment in a block of flats. And then you have to think about income...

Is there anyone /not/ saying that about crypto?

I agree with this, and have also been accused of being a Tesla hater, but OTOH someone has to pave the way for the future in which none of /those/ people have to drive either, and our cities aren't taken over by surface parking for cars that move two or three times a day at most.

If we're not gonna switch to sane urban planning, may as well bring on the robo-taxis that can go anywhere

Anyone else get twitches of imposter syndrome when they read this and then think about the last things they had to debug in prod?

Until we have a more robust conception of what human wellbeing is and what contributes to it other than ("well not being dirt poor and on the verge of death helps, and at some point there are diminishing returns") data like this just strikes me as barking up the wrong tree.

Humans, so far, have been pretty good at improving shit within the current boundaries of their awareness of improvement, and often at the expense of "other people that don't deserve it". Capitalism has been particularly effective at unleashing energy, productive and destructive - though there's also fossil fuels in there. But it could perhaps be a product of that energy release, not it's cause.

By and far, they've been shit at understanding the meta effects of what they are doing or the long term effects of that. Which is hard. Our brain is not built for long time horizons or non-linear causation or even very much meta.

It's a good thing less humans are super poor. Still some questions about whether this world is the only world in which that would happen.

about the same as comcast in the US...

I don't know where people get these crazy numbers -

Even in America outside of the coasts and outside of FAANG, making $140-$150+ as a senior developer is very good (and compared to almost all other industries is absurd) - salary.com which doesn't just rely on self-reported info as levels does reports the median salary + bonus for senior software engineers as $120k

https://www.salary.com/tools/salary-calculator/senior-softwa...

Outside of the US, even in more expensive places in the EU, even the equivalent of $100k for a super senior lead architect would be Very Good - I don't know a single SWE in the midwest in the US - including senior embedded systems engineers working on medical devices, senior firmware devs working on networking equipment, or any web engineer that makes more than $175k and I know plenty of Very Good senior full-stack web devs that make $125-$150

$125k a year is still a top of the top salary in the US, so don't cry for them tho