I’m thinking about getting a handheld and putting Chimera or Bazzite on it. It’s gonna replace my main gaming PC (so it needs to support egpu) once it bites it.

People are missing the more important question:
Why did she put the cucumber back in the fridge?

IMO I think that’s more a reflection of business decisions rather than innate programmer skill.

Programmers used to do that because they had to do that, so the businesses valued it. Now they don’t have to do that, so businesses don’t allow them room to develop those skills.

I think that rate that people actually developed unnecessary skills outside of work likely remains the same, just the skills that people desire are different to the ones from back then.

I’ve not been a dev for that long, but I’ve been a dev for 15y or so. For the most part it seems to me like that is an effect of business decisions; workers will learn the skills that get recognized. Which skills those are has changed over time.

I don’t see older devs have that quality particularly more then younger devs, what I see is businesses that don’t value that type of behavior. And having worked with “wild West cowboy” coders before, the businesses may be right; they often make a real mess things and just rely on other people to clean up after them.

From what I’ve seen, there are lots of young people who invest in themselves and have passion for the craft, when the business allows them room to grow and doesn’t treat them like a code-producing machine.

That’s true, but that’s also just the general populous, who weren’t ever contributing to open source anyways.
I don’t think the quality of coders (professional or hobby) has really declined that much.

I mean, Abe’s shooter seemed to have more straightforward motivations: Abe propped up that specific church, and that specific church ruined his family.

At least, from what I’ve understood from English language news articles in the headlines around the time it happened.

Young people today are struggling to make ends meet - they don’t have enough comfort and free time to be able to donate their labor.

That’s not agile.

It’s not bad, it’s just not agile. Agile exists for projects where that simply isn’t possible. Its sacrificing a bit of potential best-case productivity to ensure you don’t get worst-case productivity.

The problem is that people realized that they could sell agile training to middle management if they changed it to be about making middle managers feel empowered and giving progress visibility to upper management.

I wonder how hard it’d be to make a PWA and host it on GitHub 🤔 Maybe this would be a good yet-another-hobby-project-ill-never-complete to pick up

It was the other company CEO with dubious ties.

Wait… Who is “it” in “it’s CEO”??? Which CEO has ties?

I guess I’ll have to actually read the article.

We both have issues. But as I said, at least I have a modicum of self-awareness.

I don’t expect you to go back and check, but I think you know that’s not how the hostility started.

Anyways, I’ll lay off now unless you ask a question or say something wildly out of line, but I’d like to part with this: your take here doesn’t seem to align with other things you’ve said in your (public) comment history on your (public) profile. We’re all forced to play the capitalist game, but you’re not going to be rewarded for this kind of devotion to your boss.

Sorry for catching you in your hypocrisy? 🤷

How do you reconcile what you’re saying here with your anti-billionaire stance on your other comments? Sometimes someone needs to hold up a mirror.

Only to fascists and bigots.

You talk like a bootlicker. At least I have a modicum of self-awareness.

No, you’re right. Being fun at a party of techbros is totally a sign of superiority and not at all a sign of sociopathy 🤮

Tbf you’re probably not a terrible person, but that is a bad take. Rejecting someone based entirely on education, and not allowing for other factors (as is implied), is just bad for both your company and society.

Let me rephrase, to make myself crystal clear, because you didn’t get the tactful approach: that’s a shitty filter. By excluding people without a degree, you’re saying that ability to afford university for 4 years is more important than skill, experience, or knowledge.

It shows that you’re ignorant. It shows that your company has a toxic workplace.

It’s probably one of the dumbest flexes I’ve ever seen.

I have a bachelor’s of computer science, but some of the best coders I met just did a 2 year community college diploma.

I don’t think that spending lots of money on education is really a great litmus test, it’s just one minor indicator.

All these devices have the exact same specs, just different screen and RAM.

I’d pay serious money for one of these that could double as a proper desktop workstation when docked to an eGPU.