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Love it or hate it, sql is a standard and there is a ton of knowledge (stackoverflow answers, books, tutorials) and tooling (query builders, orms). This is either hopelessly naive, or hopelessly arrogant.
Doesn't understand the difference between free-lance software engineer and indentured gypsy cab driver.
...not going to make it.
Rightful king of the top comment.
I got a phone that is just usb-c. Carrying around the adapter sucks, and Bluetooth is an even bigger pain in the ass.
It's easier to pull out a soapbox and make ridiculous speeches like these, than to actually make a gui application.
If you're making something for free or for fun, then let curiosity guide you. Bureaucrats like yourself can comment all you want. I'll be making applications.
Great point. You could say that the "lies" are propaganda, as much as the advertisement that they are the vehicle for. Inundated with this much propaganda, which points to the impotence of the individual, no wonder we're seeing so much mass unrest.
Ah yes, the "computer as glorified typewriter" blog post. Needless to say, I think these appeal to people because:
Encourage consumption (of old/novelty hardware)
Promise of "productivity" (the holy grail for hn commenters)
A pip on your shoulder for being different/special
Deflect from the hard problems internet addiction and procrastination, to "hey do this instead"
Love to see the Perl team discussing these issues in such a thoughtful way. Over the years I have learned to value stability and backwards compatibility, through hard lessons (which were often quite expensive to my employer). But no one value is good or bad, per se, rather they should be selected carefully: and that is the point I took away from this article.
When 1 company is responsible for the most cancerous, complicated, baroque, developer-hostile libraries? I think it's fine to ask these questions.
Would you create a new open-source desktop application using gtk4? Would you want to package and maintain systemd/pulse/etc?
Also: why are you responding to all the critical comments in the thread, and writing dismissive replies?
I still use tcl/tk and it's still the best choice for apps of modest requirements, in my opinion.
It's stable (unlike gtk), and truly free (unlike qt, which is also a c++ behemoth). It's utterly simple and elegant.
This is the comment I wish I had made. The transition from 2 to 3 was terrible for end users, distros, and app developers. I wonder if redhat is trying to embrace/extend/extinguish because it's impossible for me to see gtk (and gnome) teams actions as anything less than overtly hostile.
StatusIcon and AppIndicator is extremely annoying.
Clientside decorations, ridiculous headerbar, button+hamburger menus, etc, etc. They are trying their absolute hardest to copy Mac os, and making sure everyone's stuff breaks in the meantime.
GTK is openly hostile to 3rd party developers and theme makers, ever since gtk became synonymous with gnome (around 3.0). This is going to be a nightmare for open-source developers and distros, which will likely be forced to support both for a long time to come.
Me? I'll keep writing tcl/tk applications. It's stable, cross-platform, and did I mention it's stable?
Lain is certified midwit tier. It appeals to the r/iamverysmart types.
If you want to 10x, I suggest an anime username as well.
For fucks sake if you are trying to make money, why are you doing open source?
Or, to put it another way, if you are doing open source, why are you so hung up on getting paid for it?
You left out the worst of them: Twitter.
Slot-machine of the internet. rage, outrage, xenophobia, name-calling, name-dropping, celebrity, manufactured 140 chars at a time. It's a culture killer.
I think it's a factor of these systems being cheap. Cheap software, cheap cameras, cheap storage, cheap compute. It's a shame we don't have a better use for all that stuff.
(triggered)
I mean, I carry my phone around in my pocket, so I kinda expect at least big Google is watching me. And probably the cell network. And probably the government, passively.
But RITE AID? What the hell, a fucking pharmacy? I mean: the customer is typically just buying whatever their doctor prescribes them. I guess they have aisles of cosmetics and cold medicine and stuff, but still, this seems remarkable for its banality and at the same time invasiveness. It's the worst kind of evil: stupid evil.
What companies are behind the development of these camera+software solutions? I reckon it's just a couple?
Strawman. And a weak one at that. Fuck off with conflating the minimum amount of competency needed to secure the data you needlessly collect with that kind of naivete.
No fucking shit, came here to say:
If you literally put a massive file on the public internet, what the actual fuck are you complaining about? The quality here is such shit.
Let's snipe at amzn, everyone hates them because they're winning, because of hn readers dependence on AWS to run their shit web apps... It's like: ope! It's been a day since we had a "amzn scammed me" post. Nevermind that the people complaining are either a) too ignorant and footgunned themselves, b) minimizing or lying about their own complicity, or c) outright scammers themselves.
Yeah, because some asshole business team decided that why should anyone sell a decent product anymore, when you can squeeze your customers for their personal information, and have a recurring/ongoing revenue stream?
It's like these shit-tier blogs and webdevs, who are tracking every single thing you do on their sites. Are they just incapable of creating? all this tracking...it's anti-creative in the extreme. Mechanical, soulless, lowest common denominator. It's medium.com and web 3.0. Where's the exit bros?
What about developers just being competent before deploying a database on the public internet?
At least google "securing X" before just pumping data in.
Victims are not the DB admins. Victims are the people whose private data, or data they expect to be private, is exposed due to developer incompetence.
Personal theory: UFOs are not aliens "like people" but are somehow related to information/energy/consciousness.
To one who understands complex systems theory, this is completely unsurprising. All the emergent phenomena (fake reviews, pandering to Instagram, faux-chic, aspirational minimalism) in turn create more reaction, more phenomena.
If we ask ourselves: were online reviews a good thing? To me clearly no. Authenticity has been the price.
Was PG always so precious, or have I just aged out of appreciating these sublimated attempts at bolstering ones sense of self?
Another outrage dump where prime members and AWS customers vent their spleen on the teat that nourishes their lives. It's a frail rebellion. A piece of performance art. Experimental theatre
In which pg spills a few hundred words humblebragging about his maverick status.
I think the thing to measure is defiance rather than conformity, by the way. Much more interesting.
It's cringey as hell, but from a "making my career" perspective, it's clearly valuable to many in charge of hiring.