I've never experienced any slowness with Firefox, so I don't know what people are talking about. But Chrome is still the default browser on Android and I guess it's the major reason why people are installing Chrome on their computer.

The first step is "Fuck the government!" The second step is always "Help me, Obi Wan Government, you're my only hope!"

At-will employment makes no sense to me. You go to work every day knowing you could be fired without any possibility of taking the time to find another job. It would drive me crazy.

The guy is scanning eyeballs for a living, I don't believe he has any respect for a small text file in your web server.

• Me: Ctrl+S, please save this file
• Windows: Do you want to save it on SharepointOnedriveCloudthing?
• Me: Put it in the local Downloads folder FFS
• Windows: OMG it's too hard!

After mods, bans, and shadow bans, we have shadow mods. We should have expected it.

verbal consent

That’s a big mistake. He got $12k for free and will find people who will pay a higher rent.

The same company that was modifying the content of the pages as an opt-out feature deeply hidden in the setting? (e.g. bitcoin stuff on every Reddit link)

Off-topic but this could be interesting: https://traumbooks.itch.io/the-sad-bastard-cookbook

Bitwarden because it's open-source and cheap. 1password is more expensive, and LastPass is dead. Some people say that you should store your recovery codes in another manager like KeePassXC to enhance the security.

I thank Musk every day for reminding me that money brings neither happiness nor intelligence. He should buy a psychiatrist as soon as possible.

i would love it to return.

RSS never died though, I have at least 50 web sites that I follow.

Yes, it's common. No, it shouldn't be tolerated. Your boss/tech lead/whatever should be involved. Here is what should be done ideally:

• not following best practices: you MUST implement merge requests (GitLab, GitHub, etc.) and his code shouldn't be approved which means that his code won't ever be merged in a shitty state. Force 1 or 2 approvals for each MR, and it should not be possible to merge an MR if it has open comments. The boss should ask every day "why is your code not merged yet?" and he'll have to explain why people don't approve his shitty code.
• shitty unit-tests: same thing, the boss should show him how to do this, and the MR shouldn't be approved.
• breaking unit-tests: it's the job of the CI to literally block MRs that break unit-tests (whether it's code coverage or unit-tests).
• leaves me to fix it during PR approval: NO, it's HIS merge request, not yours.

To sum it up: devs must not approve his MRs, the CI must block MRs that break tests.

One of them sent me a private message:

your grandfather was a nazi scumfuck that deserves to die

Nice people.

And my grandfather was not German, he lived in an actual communist country and hated it.

Years ago I joined a startup as a junior developer to work on a patented security application with SSL certificates and stuff. They had been working on it for 5 years, 10 engineers and 2 guys with PhDs, it was serious business. The thing was a prototype but it was fun to work with them. I was porting their app on Mac OS X too because the founders were sure that it would also be a success on a Mac.

Then one day I bought a HTC Desire to try this Android thing since I already knew Java. After a few tutorials, I realized that I could clone their whole app in 100 lines of code thanks to the Android API in less than a week, but it would be better, safer, and portable. I knew we were doomed. They closed the company a few months after because no one wanted their application.

And then an army of shills will tell you that blocking ads in dreams is theft.

You can't easily improve a language and stay compatible with the previous versions. C++ does it but they are crazy.

you would think there would be some kind of universal language

It does not exist, but anyone is free to try and invent it. It should be low-level like assembly and high-level like BASIC, functional, object-oriented, and have weird stuff like traits, concepts, and alien features from Haskell. It must also have both the pointers/references of C++, and the borrow checker of Rust. And don't forget to make it as secure as Ada with pre and post conditions. But it must still be easy to use. Also you will have to write a compiler for every operating system ever (mainframe, server, desktop, iOS, Android, every phone, every tablet), and contain a universal GUI that pleases everyone. It's literally impossible to do right now.

Last but not least, Java was supposed to be this universal language that you can run everywhere. It failed and it cannot be run everywhere. It also had to be improved a lot, and it's missing a fuckton of features from every other language.

I'm really annoyed at the sentence "And That’s OK" as if I can't form my own opinion on a topic. Yes, I'm triggered but it's a useless choice of words for a title.

No docstring, no shebang, no main function, no raw strings, and I’m sure they don’t have unit tests with a mocked filesystem.

Indeed. It’s frightening to know that people eat this chemical shit that shouldn’t be called food.