I only do that when the problem space is interesting.

Most developers are just implementing CRUD using a framework that does most of the work. There isn’t the interest motivation to keep on trying to fix things.

Windows reports using binary and continues to use the Greek terms. Windows is still the holder of largest market share for PC operating systems.

This is such a weird take to me. We don’t even colloquially discuss computer storage in terms of 1000.

The Greek terms were used from the beginning of computing and the new terms of kibi and mebi (etc.) were only added in 1998 when Members it the IEC got upset. But despite that, most personal computers still report in the binary way. The decimal is only used on boxes for marketing terms.

Don’t worry. They’ll change it again next week.

This. Many devs will never even meet their Product Manager because they are “too high level to be needed in technical calls”.

Translated to “I only want to tell people how much money this is going to make them without even knowing what it does”

This works for me. So long as you have a Kindle device registered on Amazon, you should be able to download directly to a desktop. The DeDRM plugin mentioned removes the DRM during ingestion into Calibre and requires an actual token from Amazon which is linked to the Kindle device you downloaded from.

I use this to get Amazon eBooks into my Remarkable 2 which requires DRM free.

I’m not sure what that last paragraph was about, but I was extremely religious throughout highschool. Like, leading youth group retreats and all.

Catholicism comes in many forms for many people. The OP could be legit. My family struggled with the idea of fantasy. It was a strongly held belief that dabbling in things that tilted occult would result in possession. An actual conversation I had with my mother was that Magic the Gathering would result in demonic possession, which would not be fixed because the Catholic Church officially stopped exorcism after Vatican II.

Some people take Catholicism more seriously and at seriously more weird ways than you can imagine from “having a Catholic friend.”

I grew up Catholic. The answer might be yes because weird things are considered sins, but there’s a built in mechanism for getting around that.

Confession is used for way worse things than “I used the devil’s tool at the instruction of my teacher”

This is a massive assumption from the story that was provided. We don’t know that they didn’t discuss with the team and an explanation of “I added a log to errors that were already happening” shouldn’t result in lack of trust from the manager.

Reactive managers like that are a big problem in the industry.

I’m going to stop. Your over confidence is preventing you from listening to anything.

Forking doesn’t imply control. A forked version of chromium would still want to keep up to date with the upstream project.

You seem to view this public option with an unrealistic view of how software development works. Especially in the public sector.

Somebody comes in with a requirement to do something in the fastest and cheapest way possible. In this case, make a public browser option. The engineers go off and fork chromium and simply reskin it because that meets the brief. They might even go so far as to set up a CI pipeline that auto pulls new features from upstream.

The public sector isn’t going to be interested in trying to make the optimal browser if they are forced to create one. They are going to be interested in meeting the brief in the fastest and easiest way possible.

I’ll get even more specific to what is likely to happen in that scenario. The governmental entity will reskin chromium. Google will own the open source project.

Your arguments are all over the place. It’s not the governments responsibility to ensure that a law suit is profitable.

And a new browser isn’t going to do what you think it is. Any attempt by a government to create a browser is just going to use Blink anyways. The reason so many browsers are using it (including browsers made by tech giants) is that rendering engines are incredibly difficult to maintain. Especially as the Web continues to evolve.

Yes, these things are inconvenient. Meaning they are achievable items but at some personal cost and effort. They are not insurmountable.

And a new browser isn’t going to change anything. I’m honestly not even sure what you’re arguing anymore.

I think you’re struggling with the difference of convenience and difficulty. Doing things without the web implies you are going to do them in the same way you’d have to pre-web. That makes the web more convenient.

I can walk in to the library of Congress and make a face to face request.

The web is a convenience for any public need in the US.

That sounds like your government has an issue. That isn’t the same as governments as a whole using the web.

In the US, we still have the option to do things in person. The online presence is a convenience. That’s how it should work everywhere.

In principle, if a government is going to distribute content to the public, they also have a duty to equip the public to be able to consume the content. Telling people to come up with their own private sector tools to reach the public sector is a bit off.

This statement is a rearrangement of events. The governments of the world didn’t create an online presence and then tell the private sector to create browsers. Governments joined in an already existing method of communication because it was convenient, popular, and browsers already existed to view the content.

It’s fine to not know every language. I’m not saying you must know every language. I’m saying that only knowing one and refusing to use another is a problem I’ve seen from PHP, Java, and C# cultures almost exclusively.

The only exception I’d say that makes sense is people who are using coding for a small part of their overall job. But full time software engineers should have at least a few options in their belt for backend that they understand and can use in different scenarios.

My issue with PHP isn’t the language, it’s the developers. PHP developer culture is much like C# and Java culture.

I could bring a million reasons I don’t want to program in PHP and every time we talk about it, the PHP developer tells me I should be using it for everything. If I suggest that it may not be the best tool for a particular task at hand, the PHP developer tells me it’s the only language they know so they will use PHP.

The issue is that this type of culture closes doors mentally. In any craft, we should try to use the best tool available for the task at hand. In carpentry you’d use a hammer with nails and a screwdriver with screws. In programming, there are times using PHP makes sense and times it doesn’t.

In container based services, I tend to lean toward a compiled binary because it reduces the size of the container at run time and most modern languages don’t require tons of heavy duty frameworks to scale well there.

In a monolith, a fully interpreted language with an MVC framework could make sense.