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The best part is you don't ever have to see their face or listen to their voice again.

By the time you have to fire somebody, that's usually a huge relief.

There's a difference between private and public lists. As far as I'm aware, adding someone to a private list does not notify them that they've been added, it just give you a filter and the chronological view of tweets from people you add to the list.

Languages are easy. Fuck the build tooling though; that's where all of the suck comes in these days.

The way that every programming language has decided it needs to reimplement make, badly, several different times, is one of the worst things about programming.

One-to-ones seem like yet another of these cargo-culted management trends that add needless ceremony and develop into an end-in-themselves. At least anywhere that I've been that's tried to implement them.

We chew up an amazing amount of time on this kind of theater.

Slack has a major outage almost weekly

We deal with issues because something is screwed up with their APIs badly enough that service is degraded all the time.

I haven't had a virus problem since the days of Windows 2000.

I've had an incredible number of problems caused by antivirus software interfering with legitimate software.

Forced pair programming is an antipattern. It's a recipe for burning your best workers.

You had better hope that the oft-touted knowledge transfer benefits of pairing are real, because you are going to have to deal with the turnover.

VSCode is easily the worst text editor I use regularly, and it's the best Electron app, the one that everyone points to as the state of the art.

I'd rather use one of the flock of old Scintilla editors.

Ban the deletionists

Yeah, it's really not. That entire segment that Flash games owned doesn't exist any more in the same way that it did.

The closest thing would be the mobile games like Candy Crush and Garden Saga, but even there the tide has passed, and it's too difficult to make anything - King was bought by Activision for 6 billion dollars.

Winforms is undead.

We'll be writing WinForms applications in the 22nd century.

My recollection is that nobody really had wifi or cable internet before about 2005.

Webapps over dialup was a complete non-starter, so you had to have desktop apps.

There's never been a CMS system that doesn't suck in this exact way. It's the nature of the beast.

It gets tiresome that every character is a quivering Freudian ball of repressed trauma and mental illness, but it is otherwise a fun world.

There's nothing worse in an American sports league than being the best team not in the playoffs.

Well, maybe being a perennially mediocre team in a state with high income taxes, maybe. Or a Canadian team when the dollar is strong.

WinRar at least is a much better UI than 7-Zip.

This is extraordinary and irresponsible FUD

I've more or less stopped using Fiddler and Postman since I started using ngrok.

Realistically, unless you're browsing log files or some globbed together generated code, I would lay money that 95% of usage of programmers editors are under 2000 lines.

If you're optimizing for a 2 GB apache log, you're probably focusing on the wrong thing.

One of the nice things about Java and C# is that they tend to have "chunkier" dependencies, that aren't split out into an interlocking tree of dependencies deep and wide.

For the most part, anyway... Things are kind of gross if you are trying to use newer nuget packages on the old 4.8 .net framework...

It's called working smart, not working hard.

I would absolutely fire someone who refused to use the mechanized tree harvester I provided and insisted on felling trees with an axe, and that's about where I stand with respect to insisting on using PDP-10 era text editors over an IDE.

They take pride in their masochism

They aren't actually going to do this, so it's really pointless to get fussed up about it.

A safe rule of thumb is to never install Insider Preview builds unless you want to be a lab rat.

An even safer rule of thumb is to only install LTSB/LTSC builds of Windows, if you can get access to them.

There is a contingent of advocates for mob programming and to a lesser extent pairing, who are just insufferable zealots. Like most programming technique evangelists, they are devoid of nuance and hammer endlessly on their single note. More often than not they have no real accomplishments to backstop their authority either.

I'll go Bartleby: I'd prefer not. The entire reason I ever got into programming is because it was a refuge from dealing with people. Working alone on a technical problem is energizing; working with other people on the same is frustrating and makes me want to do violence within an hour or two.

The most impressive thing Facebook has done, and something that is mostly ignored, is that they've essentially killed Craigslist for normies.

People use the shit out of Facebook Marketplace and the localalized buy/sell/swap groups.

Ads have driven out all other content on social media.

Part of the reason it is so intolerable to use Facebook and Instagram is because between one in three and one in two pieces of content that they display to you is sponsored.

Fortune 500s have Office 365 accounts already

A succession of wiki products that are essentially write-only. No one ever reads them. Eventually somebody gets frustrated with the disorganization and says "We should switch to Yet Another Wiki Product" and the cycle begins anew.

In a similar vein, the old classic Choose Boring Technology is worth reviewing from time to time.

https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology