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The fact that you see corporate layoffs and what Elon Musk is doing in the U.S. government as in any way remotely comparable is... troubling.

It can also serve as a helpful reference point for "what am I (still) doing here?" so that you can judge when you perhaps should not be.

The full comment does provide context clues to the author's intent, but it was somewhat poorly worded (i.e., "vast majority of apartments" is easily taken to mean individual units/their tenants, and not the property in the aggregate.)

While I completely understand OP's sentiment, after literal decades of web/front-end development, I never quite grasped the depth of disdain for Javascript or CSS until being on a team where more than the same 2 or 3 people were actively coding in them.

That's your right and I can understand why you might feel that way, but you should probably understand the compromises that are being made in doing so.

The #1 rule in my home is "Be kind" (not to be confused with "be nice".)

The #1 rule I try to abide by when coding is "Be empathetic" (to others and my future self.)

In practice, this means things like valuing clarity over cleverness (unless I can manage to be both!) and documenting unless I can really justify not (i.e., is it realistically "self-documenting"), but of course also extends to empathy for the user—I'm a front-end dev so much of my work is UI.

You may read this and think "duh" but trust me when I say that in the 20+ years of doing this professionally, those are very clearly not obvious guidelines (even for myself.)

A lot of people who have no fucking idea what's it's like to have debilitating mental illness apparently.

Where are the "dubious" claims? No one's saying he's an alien or playing 4-D chess.

He's one of the most public figures in the world right now, with hours of video "evidence" widely and easily available. Asking someone to prove he did an obvious thing in public is demanding unpaid labor.

This is not the same as expecting someone to back up a claim of a homeopathic treatment for brain cancer.

Yeah, no. Please further educate yourself before saying this out loud again.

This has been an unending source of frustration for me when I have followed someone on any of the algorithmic platforms vs. self-publishing.

So often many will invariably end up letting the place where they predominant publish to dictate what and how they produce whatever it is they output. (I was fighting hard not to say the word "content"...)

Which I despise but also understand: you do what anyone with a job does to keep the money flowing until someone in the relationship decides to end the arrangement.

(Now that I think about it, self-publishing is hardly immune to that. It just means perhaps the creator's motives could be more varied and fluid?)

Stop asking people to do unpaid labor for you.

Uh, is Trump's mouth during both of his presidential campaigns citation enough? He's not even shy about his, um, desire for fealty.

It really is despairingly sad how many of these comments (assumedly by U.S. citizens) seem to not realize or believe these actions will have an effect on them.

Are some of these things normal SOP for a regime change? Sure. But to normalize everything under that blanket assumption is just foolish.

Unless you are an exceedingly (liquid) wealthy white male, you are entirely disposable to the incoming administration. You are less than nothing. If anything, you are an inconvenience buried deep in the calculations that needs to be factored out of the equation because your existence hinders the "progress" being sought.

All these pragmatic or, worse, so-called "libertarian" views demonstrate a supremely naïve, if not outright harmful (to yourself and countless others), understanding of what is going to be aggressively pursued these next few years.

By your own logic, they must like it?

Do you think they wouldn't if they had viable options??

Billionaires simply cannot exist without exploitation somewhere (though most often throughout the system that enriched them.)

This isn't even controversial.

Many simply choose to think it's acceptable, even preferable, through whatever twisted justifications.

I'm speaking to depths of despair and mass of devastation, for which IE6 has no equal.

I can imagine the 7 people who used Netscape on Linux were very annoyed every so often.

Totally worth the exploitation, amirite?? /s

(You do realize we did this before without them, right?)

> ...the IE6 conditions of yore...

I'm sorry, but comparing modern Safari to the worst software ever widely used is just not remotely reasonable.

Yeah it's not okay to foist poorly tested releases on users.

Used and refurb devices are a thing.

I'm not justifying badly-optimized sites/apps but frankly I don't expect an entry level 4 cylinder gas-powered car to perform the same as a high-end EV.

Okay, first of all, distill this down to a 2 minute preso that's heavy on the ROI, because many organizations aren't going to let go of the eye candy and—usually the worse offenders—the legion of third-party assets. Not to mention decision makers are too often simply not empathetic to such real world details.

Second, minimum reqs are/were a thing. I'm not necessarily arguing for or against anything, but at some point... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Lastly, people using badly performing devices (not always inherently a hardware issue) are probably accustomed to things not working smoothly. You can only do so much.

Ah okay, forgive my ignorance. The way the article is written I interpreted it to be a library.

TFA never addresses what MediBang Paint Pro is using Qt for. Checking for updates, etc. (e.g., online account connection, sharing)?

Some "unit elasticity" going on maybe?

Seems a little odd to be surprised when a business that (by the author's own admission in this case) seems to have an established history of customer hostile actions.

Now someone do a chart with data that includes fertility rate, neonatal outcomes/infant mortality, healthcare availability/affordability, social safety net, cost of living, wealth equality/disparity, happiness, etc.

All I see here is an all-too-common organizational issue that something like this is having to be explained to someone in a management role. They should know these things. And they should know them well.

If your company is needing to have conversations like this more than rarely—let alone experiencing the actual issue being discussed—then that's a fundamental problem with leadership.

Buy once, cry once.

All else being equal, a TV (i.e., TV-sized) unit generally has a broader set of use cases and longer useful lifecycle than a computer monitor for the original purchaser†, which could be argued makes good economical sense.

† in my experience, computer monitors can have a long useful life when factoring in the potentially long tail of "donor/hand-me-down" cases...

Tell me you're a 20-something engineer without telling me you're a 20-something engineer.

In step 46 of the demo walkthrough, the little popup bubble says "Viola!.". The word you're looking for there is "Voilà!" (minus the extraneous period)

Seems like an interesting project and I can see the appeal to markdown aficionados (me among them, although I don't currently have much need to do presentations)!

Oof, certainly sounds like a miserable train wreck.

These are the sort of ideas that, at best, seem like they should be explored with an isolated R&D approach, or simply left to academics.

And, if they are executed realtime with a companies mainline workforce and somehow succeed, it should be clearly stated and understood that it was—like much "success"—by no small amount of sheer luck (or happenstance via uncontrolled factors, if you prefer), force of will, and patience by the team as a whole, rather than the usual narrative which is the inspired actions of single prescient individual (who will then go on to write a book and give TED Talks about an approach that absolutely cannot be applied anywhere else and does not scale.)