There are so many more, and better!, options than testing in prod, but they take time, money, and talent and ain’t no company got time for that (for a business segment that “doesn’t generate revenue”)

Oh sure, I was mostly being flippant. My response to the article is basically that billionaires losing billions is a good thing. I don’t feel optimistic enough to say we’ll get around to taxing them but yes, that would be ideal.

Venture Capital is probably the best way to drain the billionaires. Those billions in capital weren’t wasted, that money just went to pay people who do actual work for a living. What good is all that money doing just sitting in some hedge fund account?

Nexus 5.

I stared at that thumbnail for a solid 10 seconds trying to figure out why there was a water cooled GPU in someone’s trunk

The “Big Boys” use tests to gauge when code is production ready, they don’t rely on a typing system and call it a day. I’ve seen monoliths made out of bash serve their purpose for years without a glitch, thanks to tests.

Meh, I knew what wizardbeard meant.

turtle svn

that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long, long time.

I used to work at a place that required daily progress reports on tasks (this was before agile took off so ‘daily standup’ wasn’t a thing.). So I wrote a script to schedule my git commits throughout the week (so that I had at least one a day), and every afternoon it would pull my git history, generate a summary, and email it to my manager.

He knew it was automated and hated me for it but I had the most consistent and detailed reports. On the upside, it really trained me to make good commit messages. On the downside It really instilled me with a strong “burn the building down” kind of vibe that persists to this day.

Seriously, why are they so absolutely shit at software. It boggles the mind.

They’re not bad, on par or better than most frozen grocery store hamburger patties, and way better than the vast majority of fast food burger meat. No, they’re not better than a hand ground 80% lean sirloin patty, but they could easily replace what McDonald’s uses without their customers batting an eye.

Just to be clear, Tesla is really good about their software. They still support their earliest cars, whereas my 10yo Chevy is SOL. But time comes for us all

I’ll carve a dash from a tree and craft seats from junk, but when they stop supporting the software, then you’re super fucked. I love my Model Y, but I hope every day to see news that someone has jailbroken it and is working on an open OS for it.

The whitespace is not only required, but it must be tabs and spaces.

Sokath, his eyes covered. (Samsung has tons of phones and mics everywhere too) Does anyone actually use Bixby though?

Google, it’s pockets laden. (meh, they already have listening devices everywhere, two more won’t really make a difference)

ಠ_ಠ

I know this answer is flippant and dickish, but:

python3 -m http.server 80

Yeah, I remember now. the name squatting was from people putting malicious packages under misspelled names of well known packages, like “requets” instead of requests.

packages installing but not working due to missing dependencies

This is the fault of the package author/maintainer

packages installing but not working due to broken dependencies

Sometimes the fault of the package author/maintainer. Sometimes this is the fault of a different package you’re also trying to use in tandem. Ultimately this is a problem with the shared library approach python takes and it can be ‘solved’ by vendoring within your own package.

packages not building and failing with obscure errors

Assuming the package is good, this is a problem with your build system. It’s like complaining a make file won’t run because your system doesn’t have gcc installed.

one package was abandoned and using Python 2.7

Unfortunately there’s a ton of this kind of stuff. I suppose you can blame pypi for this, they should have some kind of warning for essentially abandoned projects.