Comments by "" (@traveller23e) on "Fireship" channel.

  1. Honestly the owner was responsible from what you say. At the end of the day, for live code not to crash the people at the top either need to understand it or they need to have hired a team of actual experts. If it's one programmer at a time in the company, the owner and the programmer need to be one and the same.
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  2. Honestly it would probably be the fairest thing in order to avoid giving any of the other major tech companies a major advantage. GPL that sucker.
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  3.  @MadMathMike  when you have discrete versioning with decently long development cycles having an unprotected master is bad enough, but when merging to master sends it straight to production it's just begging for disaster.
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  4.  @MrViki60  Being realistic, none of these generative AI companies make sense. The results are not great and are slow and energy-intensive to compute. Now regarding a non-profit getting lots of donations and then switching to for-profit without even any significant IP being freely licensed...if that's not a bait-and-switch I don't know what is. I hate Musk's guts but I'm on his side in coming down on Altman and OpenAI like a ton of bricks. Granted, what really needs to happen is the definition of non-profit needs to be fixed. A good start would be to require non-profits to publish all their IP under liberal or copyleft licenses (their choice) save for IP related to branding.
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  5.  @waterbloom1213  The problem isn't that they want to operate as a business, if Altman wants to take his money and found a startup that's perfectly fine. The problem is people have donated money thinking the organisation wasn't going to profit off of it and now the organisation has turned around and decided that it will after all.
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  6.  @XDarkGreyX  Same. It also frustratingly based on a false premise that paying for something means buying it. Genz here, I'm never gunna own a house but that doesn't mean I don't pay for it every month lol
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  7. linux is looking mighty attractive
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  8. I used to work in an enterprise project (10% recent, the rest legacy, you know the type). Sometimes when we'd have an urgent bug come through a colleague and I would look at it together, he would always read up the logfiles to see if he thought any other errors (there were always a lot) could be related. Meanwhile I would look at the code starting at the reported line of the error and try to work out from that how it was theoretically possible for such an error to occur. We made a good team and often found additional issues we otherwise would have missed.
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  9.  @theyellowarchitect4504  What was the rest spent on? Other software projects like core libraries and stuff?
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  10. I recently pirated an album from an artist I like because the only ways he would let me pay required signing up for spotify, itunes, or equivalent services none of which amount to me paying him 10€ or whatever and getting a folder of mp3s.
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  11.  @ToniVucic  How can it tell?
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  12.  @gigamoment  But as a non-profit competing with for-profit companies shouldn't really be the goal, I could see allowing non-profits become governmental services but allowing them to become for-profit seems like a bait-and-switch for the people who donated.
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  13. Not if the software runs exclusively on someone else's server.
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  14. Worse than waterfall. Waterfall implies there's a plan (which probably went fatally wrong a year ago). Scrum means the managers have no plan, just a bunch of desires that need to be fulfilled this instant.
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  15. it's such an insufficient explanation, a null pointer dereference is a symptom not the root cause.
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  16.  @KeithOlson  Interesting that he came back though to fix the mess he'd made. I wonder if there was some personal tie.
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  17. Yeah, I don't hate technologies so much as I distrust them. Most are made so that some company can get as much money as possible from minimal effort; I wish software copyright were like book copyright or something, so that every project would be required to provide users with the source so that 1) it was more transparent and 2) terrible code in widely-used programs could be publicly humiliated (discouraging companies from rushing devs).
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  18.  @rkvkydqf  We do need companies to run the servers though :( I wish there were government-run programs controlling servers used for major services; maybe youtube could be replaced with a government-run backend exposing APIs any frontend could talk to, and then users could use whatever to view stuff. Or potentially a similar thing, but where users had to pay a small fee to keep their videos up or something so that it wouldn't just be a massive governmental money sink with nothing to pay for it.
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  19.  @opposite342  I guess that explains why windows and android have become so bound and determined that thou shalt not view the file hierarchy.
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  20.  @Jupa  Though the fact that a business with the goal of making money can be classed as a non-profit is a problem in and of itself.
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  21. I'm a cross between the minimalist and the introvert. I'm not actually that introverted, but I definitely have the socially-awkward part of the equation...as for the minimalist, I'm pretty pessimistic about a lot of these tech corporations, recently moved to Arch Linux on my personal laptop and am now trying to learn C and C++ so I can move away from the Microsoft ecosystem (currently I'm C#). I hate web programming and generally prefer offline services, however I do own a smart phone as a result of the fact that I needed to be able to deal with SFA technologies involving more than an SMS. It'd be pretty cool to become the jaded old guy though, gotta say.
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  22. ehh, it depends...embedded system programmers often have extremely short memories yet somehow they still get by.
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  23. ​ @DajuSar  Codd's 12 commandments (of which there are 13 using zero-based indexing, so make of that what you will) are essentially a set of requirements Codd decided upon for a database system to be considered "relational". That was in the 70s, I don't feel like summarizing wikipedia but my impression is it's more a historical note than anything else (no standards were ever formed from on it as far as I can tell). DBMS = database management system CAP = Consistency, Availability, Partition tolerance. Also called Brewer's theorem, the idea is if you have a partitioned system with unreliable communications between them at some point you have to choose between consistency and availability.
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  24. Stallman (along with the FSF) has a way of making himself come across as dislikeable and borderline extremist (the list of linux distros the FSF recommends springs to mind), but in the end he's usually right. I do wish they'd get over the whole Linux naming thing though.
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  25.  @hashflame  I've seen countless EULA prominently featuring the words "This software is licensed not sold." Don't get me wrong, I hate the amount of companies using software as a service models but if you're going to fight against something you have to at least use semireasonable arguments. Just repeating demonstrably incorrect catchphrases isn't gunna cut it. I would love for companies claiming copyright on published software to have to publish the source and build instructions along with other rules ensuring anyone who purchased a right to use software could also maintain it after the company went out of business. It is absurd that lifetime licenses are no longer valid when still used by the original purchasers. A lot of my views on what software-related rights would look like in a perfect world are considered extreme by many. But none of that makes the phrase "If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing" any better.
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  26.  @somethings-random-things  But that's taking it so it's not piracy. You should break in and copy the data onto your own servers, that's proper piracy. Oh and put a little personalised skull and crossbones sticker on the server on your way out.
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  27.  @MostachoIrregular  It really doesn't cost much to run basic HTML static webpages or with a little JS, and ultimately that's basically what I'm looking for from the internet for the most part, so yea maybe I would consider a monthly bill calculated based on sites visited and requests made to each.
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  28.  @agh0x01  Though technically the console is also graphical in a way, just much more limited as it's restricted to outputting characters (albeit in a font of your choice, and these days usually with colour).
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  29. How did it end up? My experience with rewrites is that usually no one ends up happy due to extended timelines and architectures people aren't satisfied with (and that's without the potential issue of lots of undocumented business rules).
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  30. But if you do do anything serious, please for the love of all things dear at least consider keeping the DB out of the ecosystem you're in. Failure to do so could lead to impossibly high costs if/when you decide you'd rather like to change providers.
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  31. Honestly a low-maintenance linux distro is a pretty good substitute these days, if you don't have the specific requirement to run Windows (e.g. for work). Hell, I even installed SimCity 3000 Unlimited a few months ago and it still runs great.
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  32.  @alexeynezhdanov2362  As a C# dev...no you don't. I routinely have trouble where I can't find anyone on my team who knows whether the performance of a LINQ statement will be better written one way over another, for example. In that environment, performance almost never comes up in consideration, it's all about how clear and maintainable the code is, and if it follows a set of arbitrary style guidelines that are defined vaguely enough no one can agree on (or even really cares) what they mean. Java's the same way...and when you add in front-end web development and consider a lot of backend stuff is written on the assumption that microservices or other tech magic will do all the optimization you need (I mean, to be fair most of the time is spent executing web calls anyway), that's a sizeable chunk of the industry that doesn't require any low-level knowledge for better or for worse.
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  33.  @thederpykrafter  Part of what makes Stallman annoying is that he's often correct. IMHO though his annoyingness has really harmed his own movement, which is a real shame. Just think what could happen if the FSF were lead by a charismatic public figure for a few years. That said, the FSF's doggedness has sometimes gotten in the way of their own ideals I think. This is seen for example in the fact that they do not consider an OS (or distro) free if it allows the user to install unfree software from their package manager or equivalent.
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  34. To be fair, I feel like much of Haskell's difficulty arises from its distance from imperative languages the majority of programmers are used to. Well, that and the relative lack of ide support.
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  35.  @ShaferHart  Honestly I wish there were a way to just move to another platform...youtube has a natural monopoly on the vast majority of content on it. An interesting thing to note though is that this isn't an inevitable result of a free video service, as a counterexample take a look at the number of porn sites with different operating models etc which for many channels contain the same content.
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  36.  @carltone  My reply was in response to a comment regarding, and I quote, "almost(?) every language". My point was precisely that various commonly-used languages today are designed specifically to hide the exact implementation going on under the hood, I believe in an attempt to facilitate and encourage keeping "cleaner" codebases.
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  37.  @lam0bot  tbh I don't know much about the linux foundation, care to elaborate?
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  38.  @Chazzvc  That's fantastic if you can convince a government to make business pay taxes in any substantial quantity.
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  39. What sorts of questions do you ask?
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  40. "Robot slave sees to humans' every need! This makes life easier and better for everyone!" lol nope, just increases alienation, decreases our control over the outcome, decreases demand for programmers without providing us with a clear role to transition to, and in reality only helps companies that can afford the 60.000 € subscription to devAI giving them an even greater competitive edge. That's assuming the AI rapidly becomes "perfect"...if not it'll be decades of companies starting a project with it, then hiring a bunch of devs to try and solve the critical bugs (potentially in an incomprehensible codebase) that are causing production user data to be leaked and stuff.
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  41. Honestly if you give me a cursed monolithic database and a bug description I'll be perfectly happy to hunt it down, but if you tell me I have to hurry up and finish this driver testing and also write to the client about such-and-such and review this code for you and update our software on this other client's server and there's no documentation for anything and the only people who understand the system are perpetually too busy to help and it's all high priority, I'm looking for another job. (Not that I'm bitter about my current employer or anything.)
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  42.  @anon_148  if it randomly stops booting that sounds like either 1) you have some kind of auto-updater and it updated in a problematic way without your being aware (pick a stable distro, and if you are really worried have auto updates off and update manually instead) 2) you accidentally messed something up (make absolutely sure to know what you're doing when you use root or sudo) or 3) a hardware issue (e.g. hard drive failed).
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  43. I have Arch on one machine, NixOS on another. They have fundamentally different use-cases. Arch is fantastic if you're decently good at configurations and have a single machine you frequently need to adjust settings on, especially thanks to its incredible docs. It also does a pretty good job of ensuring you don't end up with meaningless duplicate packages. However, if you want any kind of partitioning of program installation it starts to work against you, e.g. it's easy installing a program on the system but hard to install it for just one user. It's also hard to install multiple versions of stuff if you need that (not normally a problem but it could be). Additionally, in a fairly normal install it's more or less incompatible with Haskell development due to the fact that by default Arch uses dynamically linked libraries and Haskell revolves around statically linked ones (technically options for dynamic linking exist, but mileage may vary and to give an idea some related critical bugs have sat unfixed for years). I installed nixOS for the facility of operations with Haskell, and I can see how it would be great if you needed to install identical systems on multiple computers. It allows having packages installed only when you're in certain environments making it really easy for groups to share their build dependencies, however what's not mentioned in the video is that understanding how any of that works is very difficult due in large part to lack of clear guides and when there is documentation it tends to only cover one small part of the setup so it's up to you to figure out how the components work together. Additionally, if you're doing a lot of tweaks to your config firstly they take forever to test and secondly you'll quickly end up with lots of different versions of your machine each with its own set of binaries etc. Of course you can clean that up. The other thing is that although the versioning saves the state of your installed programs, it does not save the state of your homefiles which could easily include configs written by those same programs so it could be rolling back doesn't restore some data deleted or updated in the interim.
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  44. Enjoy! Arch is nice, changing stuff is so easy :)
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  45. I used to have a job I loved, and yes it was exactly that for me too. Well, and I really liked my team.
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  46.  @honkhonk8009  except if I know anything about humans, it's that we hate thinking if we can avoid it. So it'll actually be the AI doing the thinking to tell us what "our" decisions need to be.
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  47. Why did you switch?
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  48.  @vilian9185  computer programmer here, I wish I could find a corporation that would let me use Linux...
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  49. Yeah, no way is it going to be free. The major tech companies are the only ones in the world with the data that these things run on, and as long as governments allow them to capitalise on that they will. In years past a similar technology would be seized by governments around the world and development would continue at a governmental (likely military or intelligence) level, but in the present day it seems unlikely. it's honestly kinda ironic how much governments these days are willing to give up opportunities to gain either power or money, but I guess it goes to show who's backing the politicians running them.
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  50.  @resyntax  Does it actually accelerate development? It just stops other companies from getting any ideas.
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