Is it that Brits drink a lot or that SV nerds drink very little?
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Readit Newsabarwick commented on When did people stop being drunk all the time? lefineder.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/prismatic
These don't usually take off because people who use vim and emacs are people who insist on customizability and aren't into all the bloat that comes with IDEs. People who want IDEs aren't interested in an editor that lives in the terminal. There is a very limited market for something like this.
There's plenty of people inbetween the extremes. I don't want the bloat but I'm also busy (tired) and don't want to spend a weekend getting my dev env setup. These pre-made environments are great to dip my toes in the water; I get the speed of vim with some of the "batteries included" ergonomics of actual IDEs.
abarwick commented on I made nodb, a RESTFful API to store and fetch JSON nodb.sh... · Posted by u/mk0y
I find monospaced font in documentation nearly unreadable for some reason.
abarwick commented on Do you ever feel like you've had enough of working in the IT industry? · Posted by u/xil3
It sounds like you were fortunate to have your passion and career be one and the same for 2 decades. Many people do not have this blessing, so ask yourself: what does everyone else do in this case? Personally, I think trying to find purpose/meaning/happiness in your life is the point of life.
This is to say, you'll probably need to hunt for hobbies and find something that gives you meaning, now that the IT-shine is gone.
abarwick commented on Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade apnews.com/article/aborti... · Posted by u/uptown
What is a democracy called when:
1. legislative lines for the state and federal areas look like a kindergardner drawing squigglies
2. When many states do everything they can to find reasons to disqualify valid voters
3. When felons are not legally able to vote, even after their time is served
4. When massive amounts of money come in from republican businesses to significantly sway elections
5. When massive lies and half-truths are put out in the media thanks to the massive money
That just doesn't look like a democracy. What it is? I don't know.
Exactly. It sounds faux-romantic to wane about democracy and the power of voting, but when the systems that support this system have been perverted over the course of decades, it becomes a horror story. Democracy as it has been thought of is dead (in the U.S.).
abarwick commented on Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics gpdp.it/web/guest/home/do... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
Are you going to also train staff to use the new open source software? Where is the open source SalesForce equivalent? Workday? Concur? Device management? Email service? ServiceNow? Time tracking? Photoshop? Are you going to also force every employee to use Linux instead of Mac and Windows? Are you going to tell them to rewrite all of their software and business processes written on top of Oracle and SQL Server? Should they also rewrite all of their bespoke mobile apps to support open source mobile operating systems? Are you going to migrate all of their Office documents and SharePoint? Are they going to move all of their project management processes from Microsoft Azure DevOps (aka Visual Studio Online)? Are they going to move all of their call center software to open source? For school systems are they going to move their fuel procurement software? Many education systems are partially funded by the lottery. Are they going to move their backend systems from GTech? Their lunch programs payment systems for students use a third party, are they going to move that too? Their ATS? LMS? Grade tracking software?
Simply training government workers to use open source tools would shut down governments for weeks.
abarwick commented on Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics gpdp.it/web/guest/home/do... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
> are so tightly coupled with packages like office 365
Are they though? Do you know this for a fact? I mean, sure, MS Office is very popular in government settings, but does this really go beyond the possibility of just replacing it with LibreOffice if they so decided?
I obviously can’t speak for all, even most, but back in my consulting days I can say the many US federal and state agencies use Azure AD and a litany of AWS services that are core to vital work streams. Enough that having to shut them down would neuter the department.
abarwick commented on Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics gpdp.it/web/guest/home/do... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
i’d support any legislation that booted google, fb, ms, adobe, salesforce, and a whole host of other surveillance tech companies from any and all levels of government. it’s literally as important as the separation of church and state. in fact, i’d love to see a constitutional amendment explicitly separating corporate interests from governmental ones, in all facets of civic life (e.g., campaign finance).
This is just naive. Government offices/agencies are so tightly coupled with packages like office 365 that forcefully separating them would require home built solutions which would always be terrible, less secure, and more expensive to the tax payer. There’s a lot of good these products can provide, granted they are properly audited and have high security requirements.
abarwick commented on Rust is hard, yes, but does it matter? jmmv.dev/2022/05/rust-is-... · Posted by u/signa11
Already a big red flag in the first paragraph - you shouldn't need to know anything about how a computer works to use a programming language
To use? No, most modern languages can abstract to a high level. But senior JS developers that don't understand even basic memory management are not going to have a good enough handle on what's going on under the hood to be helpful. I think is more to do with them not being remotely curious, which is a prerequisite to good engineering.
abarwick commented on Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack wfla.com/news/hillsboroug... · Posted by u/Firebrand
Obviously what they did is wrong but the kid is 17. To me this is a prime example of where a short sentence or community service should be used. Don't ruin his life - he could be a useful employee for a tech company.
If he had gotten into twitter to make some funny status's then sure, community service makes sense. But this kid scammed a lot of money from a lot of people, severe criminal charges are appropriate.