Just curious, but what country are you from?

I am from the Netherlands, and this kind of office politics seems completely alien to me. The company I work for, and the people in it, are far from perfect (nor am I). But everyone is doing their best, and has the best intentions. But maybe I just got lucky.

We are a small company that needed an App for Apple, Android & Windows (10+ years ago). We chose Cordova, as we don't have the time/manpower and know-how to make full native apps for all platforms. We are still distributing and maintaining these. They are not use very often, but that is all the more reason why we don't want to spend a lot of effort on them.

I kinda like the concept of using a webview as a sort of "virtual machine" for you application so it can run on multiple platforms.

Maybe this is a good opportunity to take a break, and wait until the AI bubble bursts?

I also wonder how far AGI away really is, could be a lot farther away then everyone thinks. I mean, it's not like ChatGPT is really 'designed' by humans. It's more like it emerged after making the networks bigger and bigger.

I think generative AI is very good at generating useless code.

You just have to make some unit-test to verify every input-output is still what it's supposed to be.

"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight."

- Bill Gates

The infertile crops are things like seedless bananas. These are artificially created using grafting. All bananas are 100% genetically identical. Not dangerous for us, but the bananas run the risk of being wiped out by some disease. No genetic diversity means no resistance.

What Monsanto does kinda makes sense, but the way things turned out makes them evil bastards that would sell their mother for every little bit of profit.

Is that the Veritasium video on Youtube?

Use copilot to analyze the bash script.

I always like to think that the opensource community if full of very smart toddlers, that create a lot of good software. But there is no parental supervision whatsoever.

If they can marginally improve something, but it will mean a breaking change, then they will do it.

These people have no intention making software that other people can use. They are just trying to make the perfect software, and are willing to break stuff in the process.

In contrast, at our company we have an archaic piece of software that compiles old .NET 2.0 code into javascript. We are not developing anything new with that framework, but it required 0 fixes in the last 10 years.

Just to clarify, this code is equivalent to this?

if (y)

{

x = y;

// Do stuff with x without modifying y

}

I still cannot wrap my head around the SWIFT code. Maybe SWIFT should focus on getting a proper garbage collector, instead of all this syntax sugar.

I think SWIFT is a polished turd. Looks nice from the outside, but it's still crap.

Indeed. Somehow when an LLM talks about something, it is very good at scratching the entire surface of the topic, without ever going deeper. It feels really unnatural.

It annoys me when some non-technical people present LLM content to me to explain things. I mean, I could also ask an LLM for clarification (and I often do).

“A policy of “Quality—If Time Permits” will assure that no quality at all sneaks into the product. Hewlett-Packard”

― Tom DeMarco, Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

https://goodreads.com/quotes/...

I the end, quality is what suffers usually.

I'm a big fan of Tiesto's "In Search Of Sunrise 1-7".

Sounds like you need a new tech lead.

What I hate about scrum is the way it is forced upon me, without me having any say in it. My manager is still convinced that the 'daily standup' is good for me, that it's something I need in order to properly do my work. But if I need something from someone, I will go to that person immediately. I don't need a 'standup' for that.

Scrum encourages managers to manage the work, instead of managing people. And most IT managers really like this, as dealing with tickets is much easier than dealing with people. I think 95% of all IT managers (or managers in general) are just bad at managing people, which is kinda sad as this is basically their primary job.

If you just have 4 cases, I wonder if 4 simple == would have been better.

10400002 || 10400006 || 10400020 || 10400048

If you match specific numbers, it's nice if you can do a search in the project and find the specific number.

Rick and Morty also a multiverse aspect, but they don't overdo it. The Citadel of Ricks was pretty funny.

I think if you fire this laser from earth, it will probably heat up the atmosphere, and contribute to global warming as least, maybe more.

This reminds me of some XKCD explained where Randall Munroe tries to explain what happens if you point laser pointers to the moon:

https://what-if.xkcd.com/13/

@Lensflare I can see wisdom in what you are saying.

I think the decision to use any framework or library needs to be a deliberate one. Doing everything yourself is bad, as you are re-inventing every wheel you use. But using 100+ libraries to do simple stuff is also bad.

@Lensflare Even if jQuery uses proper semantic versioning (they might, i dunno), we still had to replace all old jQuery with the new version. Reason was that some kind of security tool said old jquery was unsafe. And since jQuery likes to deprecate stuff, we had to change a lot of existing code, including many jQuery plugins. If you include all regression testing, this was a pretty big effort, pretty much for nothing.

Deprecated stuff included things like $.isArray. While this function is pretty useless (Array.IsArray does the same), they could also simply leave it in, and not forced everyone using jQuery to update their code.

I think many of these frameworks are made by very dedicated and smart people (smarter then me). But there is no parental supervision. These libraries are not made as a service to the people using then, but because the creators enjoy making them.

I am becoming more and more reluctant to use any framework at all.

On the other hand, Javascript has never has any breaking changes. So it it works once, it keeps working.

Better than all those JS framworks that keep on braking stuff (looking at you jQuery).

Personally, I also love debugging. No stakeholders, no changing requirements. Just unraveling the mystery, and coming up with a fix.

I especially like when after searching for a day, I fix a bug by changing just one character (like a > into a <).

At around 10-12 years old. GW-Basic on an MSX computer. I remember typing programs from books.

I also remember loading games from cassette tape, where you had to type "load" (or something) at the command prompt, and then press play on the cassette player.

But with serious programming, I think it was at university when I was 18 years old.

Reminds me of this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/217/

From what I understand, burnout is essentially a hormone imbalance.

I always look at it in this very dumbed down way: In order to activate yourself, you need a hormone called cortisol. When you have too much stress, your cortisol depletes and you have no energy to do anything.

You can compensate in the short-term with adrenaline (by getting angry), but that is not very practical in the long run.

Solution is to rest well, eat well, and physical exercise. And to accept that recovery takes time.

Reminds me of an article I read a while ago: https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-p...

Learning any new paradigm is very tiresome. It takes time, effort, and enough sleep.

Employers are usually not interested in paying people what they are worth, they are only interested in keeping costs down. This reminds me of an article I read a while ago:

http://bluegraybox.com/blog/2004/...

Given your relationship with your boss, I think you owe it to him to give him a chance to do the right thing. He will probably say no though, saying something like there is no budget available. Or promise you a raise in the future. Or give you a minimal raise to prevent you from leaving.

The unfortunate truth is that most employers take advantage of loyalty, instead of rewarding it.

And if you worry about souring you relationship with your boss by demanding a raise (or threatening to leave), remember that the relationship is already soured by them not rewarding you properly.

Are we talking about old school for loops with explicit indices, or the newer for..of?

I think for..of looks nicer than forEach with its nested scope. It's also nicer (and less error prone) than manually working with indices in old school for loops.

If Dante Dante Alighieri was still alive, he would probably update his Divine Comedy to have a special place in hell for the people that invented Gradle.

There they will be stuck in a constant loop of fixing Gradle errors, building, getting Gradle errors, fixing, building, etc...