cyclohexane
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- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 1 month ago:
Maybe because I’m not from an English speaking culture that I don’t see the far right stuff
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 1 month ago:
People prefer centralization, and it makes sense. The Fediverse resolves most of the issues with decentralization, but so does centralization, which came way sooner, and arguably did it better.
Also, people seem to forget that Facebook was pretty cool back then. It had superior features, and was not the buggy mess it is today.
- Comment on Selfhosted messenger/community software like discord 6 months ago:
For XMPP, have you looked into using snikket? It does most things you’d want out of the box without having to setup extensions yourself.
- Comment on Hosting on Oracle 8 months ago:
Been using them for over a year now. I’m not a proud or loyal customer, but it’s a very generous free tier and I haven’t regretted it.
- Comment on What are some common misconceptions about programming that you'd like to debunk? 9 months ago:
Requiring a candidate to know a specific programming language is stupid. Nearly all of the commonly used languages in industry are similar.
It’s maybe more valuable to require knowledge in a specific framework, where knowledge is less transferrable between popular frameworks. Nonetheless, I personally rather hire an engineer that solves problems and learns flexibly rather than one that happens to know the right tech.
- Comment on What are some common misconceptions about programming that you'd like to debunk? 9 months ago:
Some programmers are software engineers. They solve problems, sometimes problems with great ambiguity or non-straightforward solutions.
And some programmers are… code technicians? They understand and write code, but their job seldom involves problem solving. Often times, they’re asked to code an already solved problem, or mostly solved.
This is not a diss. I was in the second camp for a while. But it hurts your career to stay in that. So be careful.