Different user here.

My only criteria for a backend language is it tells me something went wrong and where. Hence my distaste for JS.

Some things we would want to install aren’t in the official repos. Downloading the deb file is a solution to that for newer users.

It’s not attitude they are giving you. It’s strong recommendation. It’s the strong recommendation of the entire Linux community.

Sudo is different than run as admin and is not intended to be used to do things the way Windows does them.

Windows reports using binary and continues to use the Greek terms. Windows is still the holder of largest market share for PC operating systems.

This is such a weird take to me. We don’t even colloquially discuss computer storage in terms of 1000.

The Greek terms were used from the beginning of computing and the new terms of kibi and mebi (etc.) were only added in 1998 when Members it the IEC got upset. But despite that, most personal computers still report in the binary way. The decimal is only used on boxes for marketing terms.

That indicates that you might buy it if it’s good. The person I replied to implied they would never have purchased it at all.

If you were never going to buy it, why pirate it?

Don’t worry. They’ll change it again next week.

Yes. Since nobody else seems to want to answer. Also, they waive the Unreal Engine revenue share from sales on the Epic Store.

I appreciate Epics pro developer stance, but the need a better consumer experience and innovation in that space if they want to be serious about the store.

Valve has spen’t much of the last 25 years pushing the industry forwards in distribution. That’s why there’s so much loyalty to them.

I don’t know that I agree with this for anything but GPUs. There are plenty of distros that are stable and don’t require constant fiddling.

No, you didn’t.

This is a hot take if I’ve ever seen one. I may disagree with this particular action but supporting companies that make games I want to play and are demonstrably fun is never morally wrong.

The world is more complex than that.

Yes, but other cars aren’t operating inside enclosed tunnels at all times.

I’ve had questions like your 3rd bullet point in relation to why somebody’s friend is having trouble with connecting a headset to a TV.

No idea. I don’t know what kind of headset or what kind of TV. They are all different Grandma.

As a senior engineer recently turned manager I hear this type of mentality from most of my junior all the way up to senior devs.

The only thing I’d suggest to you is spend some time digging into the tools you’re building outside of the project you’re working on. Just to get a general understanding of how the pieces fit together. Definitely do it during work hours, though. I’m in no way suggesting outside of work, here. Once you’ve spent enough time digging, you’ll surprise yourself in how effective you get at answering questions.

That makes it sound more like it is Linux, but not GNU. Which is accurate

I’ve never seen a problem with asking people to code in a live session. It’s about the problems they are asked to solve. Leetcode style problems are generally unrealistic and have little to do with the skills that are actually needed.

If the problems were more focused on the day to day type of work, nobody would complain. “solve x problem without the industry standard library that solves that problem already” is just testing the ability to quickly reinvent wheels.

For the goal you have, the best thing to do is find something you’re passionate about and build something for it.

Ask yourself what do you love to do outside of programming? What is some problem you have that you could solve by writing a a piece of software?

You are more likely to complete a project that you are passionate about and when you speak about it in an interview your passion will show and excite the interviewer.

If there is an industry you are interested in, try to attend conventions that are relevant and go speak to the reps at the companies you are most interested in and ask questions about their products. Ask if they have any internship programs coming up and who to speak to after you’ve shown interest in their projects.

Source: an engineering manager who is not currently hiring

My money is on its not pushing Pro hard enough.

A program that works right but doesn’t solve the problem is also not very useful.