“gotta see shit to know shit” someone once said to me

It pops into my head semi-regularly

This comment has graduated to becoming my head canon for this scene

It makes everything make sense

I wonder if the website did the thing where it lists their big customers like a trophy cabinet on the main landing page.

It would probably make a good list of places to sell snake oil

Also love that this is all evidence to back up the premise that building the happy path of an application is generally easy, one of the main skills in software engineering is ensuring the unhappy paths are covered sufficiently. I can say I’ve started a bank and keep people’s money in my wardrobe, I’ll be providing the service of holding their money—I’ll also probably get robbed sharpish because I’m not skilled in the kind of security needed to avoid that.

Yes, silly engineers that don’t like being held to unrealistic estimates and deadlines; typically the ones that arise at the start of a project where there are still who-knows-how-many unknowns to find.

Waterfall is the most effective tool for software engineering in a world where the whole world stops once you’ve planned and only starts again once the project has finished—i.e. a fictional world that doesn’t exist. Literally every waterfall project I worked on back in the old days was derailed because something happened that wasn’t planned for—because planning for everything up front is impossible and planning for anything more than a handful of eventualities is impractical.

Agile and subsequent methodology comes from realising that requirements will change and that you are better off accepting that fact at the time than having to face it once you’re at the end of the current road.

Agile does not mean engineers talking continuously to the users, engineers are hired to do what they’re good at: engineering. Understanding user requirements and turning that into a plan has always been product’s job regardless of methodology, in agile and similar it’s just spread out over the duration of the project, not front loaded. Agile isn’t “make the engineers do every proficiency”.

A software engineer was not involved in this if waterfall is painted positively.

I think the last time I heard an engineer unironically advocating for a waterfall IRL was about a decade ago and they were the one of the crab-in-a-bucket, I-refuse-to-learn-anything-new types—with that being the very obvious motivation for their push-back.

You get used to it, I don’t even see the code—I just see: group… pattern… read-ahead…

Probably true, worth pointing out I browse with the “old.” theme when I’m at my computer which doesn’t come out bad at all given it’s pretty basic HTML (just tried it on my phone too, which is something I wasn’t sure would give a good result)

You’re right though, it would be a good pull request to the Lemmy UI to add a print stylesheet

I was going to say this but using the print to PDF functionality in most OSes

That’s crazy cold

Frankly, I think I would move if this was a temperature I had to plan for.

And a decade or so ago it was LOLCODE that had me mildly concerned for the wellbeing of my peers.

XcQ

Welp here’s hoping something pops up to replace gravity sync soon, can’t really upgrade until it does.

I just found https://github.com/mattwebbio/orbital-sync but it’s not apparent if it’s compatible with v6 yet

Seemingly every interaction this man has with a normal person is him finding newer and more interesting ways of declaring himself an absolute moron.

How the fuck is he the de facto president of the USA?

Elon probably thinks

Not really sure he does, I think he’s clearly paying others to do that for him

We really need someone other than Qualcomm & Apple to come up with lossless Bluetooth audio codecs.

TBF the whole Bluetooth audio situation is a complete mess

Assuming you mean hosting stuff on a VPS or similar, I think the Lemmy selfhosting communities consider that also self hosting on some level.

If you more meant for commercial hosting, there’s no harm in asking, I’d wager a fair few people subscribed probably work in the industry.

If you meant the behind the scenes stuff of running a hosting provider, you might have a little less luck, but you never know

I think I’m very similar to you

I want to have a feed of topics I’m interested in, very rarely do I care about a specific individual, and the case that I do it’s probably because they’re a local restaurant or something like that, basically all I use Instagram for is a glorified photo menu for food I might want on a given weekend

Whenever I develop on Windows, I just use the built in Linux.

Was gonna say, I’m sat on 2.2k comments apparently in about 15 months, which is surprising to me given I probably only comment on about half the days in any given week.

I will say compared to Reddit though, I tend to be more likely to comment here because there’re fewer people here and I want it to feel active enough for more people to continue joining (either lemmy in general, or just on smaller communities that don’t have a lot of activity yet).

At least productivity has house prices to hang out with