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iPhone dumbphone 11 months ago

I can only access the apps and websites I want to use

not really a dumb phone is it?

i guess there will be always a previous processor supporting something which the most recent doesn't.

but when the bug report is regarding supporting a software version which they don't support themselves anymore, personally i don't think they will give it any priority

escape life, or the point of life (if there's one)?

i don't think there's a point of life. from a nature perspective it should be reproduce and assure balance in the ecosystem, but as there's way too many humans that ship has sailed.

from the economic perspective you're a pawn to contribute to a "healthy" economy so we all can enjoy our luxuries.

and then there's the individual perspective, where the point probably is what you want it to be.

after realising there's no point at all, for me the point pretty much is "do what you want and what you're comfortable with and try not to worry too much"

though i agree that there isn't a proper vcs out there for large files (adobe bridge was a nice attempt) git wasn't designed for that and one might wonder whether you want git to be _that_ multi purpose.

git has a steep learning curve for sure, but eventually scenarios described at oshitgit should be common knowledge for anyone using it.

personally i think putting out sites like that is more helpfull than dumbing down git

what would be a typical large file you want to have in your codebase? usually this shouldn't be a consideration

don't fix what ain't broken?

i think as long as git keeps evolving and there are no major pitfalls for any programming language: why should it be replaced?

been using submodules for years without any issues other than the routine before "deinit" was introduced was somewhat tricky.

could you elaborate?

Yml Coding 6 years ago

despite the readability of the yaml syntax, for me the big disadvantage is the inability to use meta / type info.

for a straightforward collection of strings: probably good enough, for anything else xml is more likely to cover the usecase better

[dead] 6 years ago

does this belong here? a ghost writer, not a psychologist...

you say you started doing programming as a hobby which means it used to be fun, right?

you might want to isolate the aspects of what made it fun back in the days when it was a hobby and what makes it dreadful at the moment and find yourself something which include the first, but lacks the later.

personally i think the attractive side of being a developer is creating something. reading you're not interested in business side of tech (analyst, salesman, management) you might want to explore other crafts which maintain the creative part.

that could be anything really. i myself started out as a graphic designer before i got involved in programming which might be something you want to explore...

Do not log 6 years ago

this is ridiculous advice.

sure, use third party services / applications to ease insights and additional steps like notifications, but not logging at all does not make any sense.

"And eliminate all possible exceptions that can happen here" that's including runtime exceptions?

"There are a lot of cases when we don’t care. Because of the retries, queues, or it might be an optional step that can be skipped" using different log levels perfectly indicates the importance of the exception.

"it sounds like a job for Sentry, not logging" afaik sentry is logging which makes me wonder whether the author is advocating a principle or a product...

interesting question.

we roll forward and thus far never ran into the situation that that wasn't possible in a reasonable amount of time.

nevertheless i've wondered more than once what would happen if we run into such a situation and there's a substantial database migration in the process (i.e. with table drops).

curious to learn what the different strategies are on that point: do you put your table contents in the down migration, do you revert to the last backup, etc.

i think that's why people lost interest; most of them who liked series 1 weren't interested in series 2, while the people who might have liked series 2 weren't interested in series 1...

flipping sides apparently didn't really pay off for mr robot.

nevertheless i think mr robot set a higher standard for hacker related productions

nothing does; no images and non functional links.

looks like firefox' content blocking prevents some resources from loading, basically disabling your site.

apart from the obvious google tag blockage this one pops up in the console:

Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/hot.json. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed).