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Off Topic / Re: The Chronology of the Blockland Forums
« on: March 18, 2024, 03:18:11 PM »
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Off Topic / Re: Software engineering trends that annoy you
« on: March 16, 2024, 12:21:25 AM »
I do web development, i love react and stuff like that (especially svelte baby hell yeah baby) (also preact is good if you're really a fan of the react model but want Faster). I agree with aide that it's definitely the best Run Everywhere solution. ultimately ease of development is an important trait, leads to more maintainable software with fewer bugs. like you may think modern software is buggy but if facebook had to make their website in C it would not be capable of the kinds of widespread sociological influence that it is because you just wouldn't be able to use it
although there definitely is a problem with developers (in general, but as a web dev myself i feel entitled to say that it's especially bad in this field) simply not caring about software quality and performance and resource management. a degree of performance issues is caused simply by the use of these higher level languages which hide a lot of it from you, but i would venture to say that most of it is just because devs don't care enough. lack of unit (or other forms of automated) testing is like a forgetin epidemic. there's almost none anywhere. trying to find an employer that cares about it is a pipe dream these days. including it on his little list is the only good thing joel spolsky ever did for the software industry (and contributing to the founding of stack exchange was one of his worst)
electron is bad in the way that it's like, a single runtime, but every single application has its own instance of it. that's just loving stupid. like we knew better in the 90s. there's no real excuse. otherwise however it's a pretty good way to develop a piece of desktop software that's trivially multiplatform. as long as you care. but if you don't care, then it doesn't really matter what you use to make it, it's gonna suck anyway. but for this reason I generally just advocate for making websites. everyone can use whatever runtime they want and frankly you can do just about anything. I feel like the number of things you genuinely can't do in a browser that you can with a piece of desktop software is pretty low and mostly nonessential
although there definitely is a problem with developers (in general, but as a web dev myself i feel entitled to say that it's especially bad in this field) simply not caring about software quality and performance and resource management. a degree of performance issues is caused simply by the use of these higher level languages which hide a lot of it from you, but i would venture to say that most of it is just because devs don't care enough. lack of unit (or other forms of automated) testing is like a forgetin epidemic. there's almost none anywhere. trying to find an employer that cares about it is a pipe dream these days. including it on his little list is the only good thing joel spolsky ever did for the software industry (and contributing to the founding of stack exchange was one of his worst)
electron is bad in the way that it's like, a single runtime, but every single application has its own instance of it. that's just loving stupid. like we knew better in the 90s. there's no real excuse. otherwise however it's a pretty good way to develop a piece of desktop software that's trivially multiplatform. as long as you care. but if you don't care, then it doesn't really matter what you use to make it, it's gonna suck anyway. but for this reason I generally just advocate for making websites. everyone can use whatever runtime they want and frankly you can do just about anything. I feel like the number of things you genuinely can't do in a browser that you can with a piece of desktop software is pretty low and mostly nonessential
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Off Topic / Re: What happened in your birth year?
« on: March 06, 2024, 09:51:52 PM »didn't mention it to me, but it definitely just got it from the referer [sic] header. nothing weird going on
What
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Off Topic / Re: Software engineering trends that annoy you
« on: March 03, 2024, 05:13:11 AM »i love ruby on rails!!!how can you love ruby on rails. have you used it
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Off Topic / Re: Software engineering trends that annoy you
« on: February 27, 2024, 02:21:11 AM »
ruby on rails. it's not really a trend anymore but im still stuck with it at work and it sucks. forget you dhh. bitch
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General Discussion / Re: someone's out here making some bangers
« on: February 01, 2024, 12:01:45 AM »
that's pretty good actually
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Creativity / Re: Drawings Megathread
« on: January 30, 2024, 12:13:21 PM »ok actually really cool
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Off Topic / Re: Forumer of the Year 2023: Swolli wins! (he wins bonus round, too!)
« on: January 26, 2024, 11:26:03 PM »That is not what abstaining means.oh I misread your post entirely, I thought you meant "woulda been better to abstain cause [if you had switched votes] then it would be a tie"
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Off Topic / Re: Forumer of the Year 2023: Swolli wins! (he wins bonus round, too!)
« on: January 26, 2024, 03:29:36 PM »woulda been better to abstain cause then it would be a tie and everyone would be [happy/sad] at the outcome.it wouldn't have been a tie, swholli -1 mld +1 would make it 6 to 5
anyway in the end I think mld's chronology thread in and of itself is his monument
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Off Topic / Re: new year's resolutions?
« on: January 22, 2024, 02:41:20 PM »mine is also fitness related but less specific. I just want to do strength training every other day and walk at least 30 minutes on the off days. surely over time I will increase the scope of these goals but I think that's a manageable place to start. the most important thing for me rn is just getting some kind of activity every day and trying to get in better shape. I'm not especially worried about changing my diet at the moment because that's never gone exceptionally well in the past and it's going to have to be a much more gradual process. trying to change both at once would not work for memight as well post a brief update
the first week(+) of january was uneventful, I was going through some stuff and just needed to focus on that. that's leveled out though, and now, counting from the 11th when I properly started, I have averaged about 4.5 days per week of walking. which is actually better than every other day! nice. initially I struggled to even reach fifteen minutes, but now I'm consistently getting to 30. I'm glad it didn't take long, and impressed with how much easier it's gotten in that time. I think for now the rate I'm aiming for is two days on, one off. once I get more accustomed to the activity (particularly my feet, which hurt lol), I'll probably switch to every day, because it seems both doable and also, like, it's nice. going outside for a walk most days has had a surprisingly noticeable positive effect on the way I'm feeling in general. I would recommend it to anyone. the activity itself feels good too. you get tired, of course, but it's like... good tired
starting to consider upgrading it to jogging before long. like I mentioned, I'm surprised by how quickly it's gotten easier, so I feel like that's the logical next step (hehe), and more realistic than I initially expected
as for the strength training, I haven't actually started that yet, but I plan to today...! here's hoping......! I'm probably going to go ahead and modify that goal to 3 days per week, instead of specifically every other day. since I'm not walking exactly every other day, it doesn't make as much sense to alternate between them like that. the strength training is just to try to improve my general fitness, I don't have any, like, bodybuilding goals or anything of the sort, so I don't think I need to go all that hard
hope everyone else's are going well
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Off Topic / Re: Koden has passed away.
« on: January 17, 2024, 10:30:03 PM »
I didn't really know you or your brother but I'm sorry to hear that. he will surely be remembered