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Just like soldiers, we have the right to refuse unethical orders. It's just that we'll likely lose our jobs for it no matter how senior we are. But if that happens, there's always the ability to leak out whatever we were told to do.

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Using Word (or any WYSIWYG word processor) as an IDE should be a firing offense. As in from a cannon. Into the sun.

It can be abused so it is a bad construct.

I expect that kind of shoddy thinking from politicians, not other developers.

And we complain about having less than 8GB of RAM these days.

I bet even the non-developers at Google can write FizzBuzz in their sleep.

Also that fizbuzz is easy. People who can't do that are people who were patted on the back to many often for learning a framework.

This is pretty much the point of FizzBuzz. It's not to find the great programmers, but to weed out all the idiots who choke up on even the most trivial problems. If it weren't so easy, it'd be useless.

nano is pretty good but if you want real power when editing in the console, Take up xemacs. Just a warning, though, you may need to grow additional fingers to use it effectively.

There were never any regressions caused by exception handling in all the time I worked for that company, and bug fixes were rarely an issue and never anything that anyone in our team was afraid of. And neither there nor at my current employer do we push back CRs; we're professionals, not wusses.

You're an idiot if you truly think this, not to mention shifting the goalposts with "excessive exception [use]". I've worked on a number of large projects, both as a regular developer and as an architect and it's not that hard to make judicious, proper use of exceptions. You strike me as a noob developer who has been burnt once by badly misusing exceptions and now think they're not but the devil's tools.

Git gud or stop coding, you scrub.

Yeah, my comment is pretty clearly hyperbole. I doubt Microsoft is emotionally ready to give up NT just yet, but first and foremost they're a software & services company. If people are going away from Windows, Microsoft's going to follow with its products -- especially the big money-making productivity and server ones.

The more likely and less paranoid view is that if they can get SQL Server running on Linux, then that's one more part of Azure they can move to lower-cost, lower-powered hardware. It's a smart move and one I'd take if I was in Nadella's seat too.

Prediction: Windows 11 will be Win32 and UWP on top of Linux and Wayland.

The second becomes almost impossible if the original application vendor enforces digital signature verification on update bundles before installing them.

Unless/until some state actor forces the vendor to sign the malware, like the FBI is demanding, or someone gets their hands on the private signing key. And you're wrong that it "doesn't really apply" on open source systems. Just because the user initiates updates instead of the operating system doesn't mean that the signers can't be coerced into signing malware masquerading as an update, or that someone with enough resources can't steal the keys and creds needed to push such malware into a package repository.

Because it's easier having a central repository for the team to access as there's still no stable Gittorrent to decentralize the repositories themselves.

Sign up with BitBucket and get unlimited private repos for free.

So good right up to the Bernie boost at the end. I feel like I was conned by reading this because of that sudden switch at the end. People died, and the author wants to turn it into political promotion? Even if that wasn't his intent, that's how it came off to me, and I'd rather see Sanders as president than any of the other candidates.

Yeah like I'm going to accept a list of "trendy" languages from a Java-focused site rather than a site that is language and platform agnostic.

I like Roberto Rosario's Code of Merit; it makes it explicit that issues should be about the code and not who people are outside of the community.

1. It's getting easier. I forget its name but there's that service that will issue free TLS certificates for sites so long as you can validate your ownership of the domain, that just got its CA certificate included in (I believe) Chrome. There's also CAcert, which is free, but unfortunately doesn't have much carriage at this time with their CA certificate.

2. If you're debugging something, you should have a good understanding of what's going on (or at least what should be going on). By that standard, if you're debugging HTTPS connections you should have enough of an understanding to know about self-signed certificates and cert installation.

Yeah, if you like having a never-ending tree of constantly spawning git processes. Because fuck libgit2, amirite?

You're a funny man, @onegin. I'll kill you last.

Just going to leave the comment I left on there over here in case it somehow disappears:

The perpetual license model being for the STARTing version is just a disingenuous attempt at making the “problem” of dissatisfied customers go away. Honestly, it’s a pretty poor way of going about things, and for users like me who pay for our own licenses, it means the only way to feel secure about what we’re paying for is to always stay a year behind so that we don’t get the carpet jerked out from under us if we ever go off subscription. This is a terrible way to operate.

I’m going to have to think long and hard about ever paying JetBrains again; it might be time for me to look for competing tools from companies that don’t try to disguise a turd as a sandwich.

I'm glad that babbies like you will never be kernel contributors, because your precious fee-fees are more important than making something that works well.

Unfortunately, you can't PR to a project on GitHub from your Bitbucket account. GitHub needs to die and be replaced with Gittorrent or something actually distributed like that.

I use SourceTree at work, but even gitk works better.

Bitbucket offers unlimited free repositories, but private free repos are limited to five users (public free repos have no user limit). There's also GitGud.

Bitbucket is like the one good Atlassian product/service.

That's when the solutions offered on SO are even correct.

There's no real difference between them. It's simply a matter of attitude that determines whether 'programming' or 'coding' is more appropriate to use over the other, at any given time.

They sure were. I miss my C64, so happy that VICE exists to provide really good and performant emulation.

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