There is no cloud. Just other people's computers.

Also, I would say that AI has probably one-upped cloud computing in that area.

Having worked at one for a for a few years, I can't say I agree, nor do I technically disagree either.

Theres nuance.

That's why people invented properties / auto generated getter/setter - in at least 95% of cases they are just busywork.

I don't like working with them any more than you do, but they're necessary to enforce read/write-level security. Without them, there'd be no differentiation between reading a variable and writing variable from an external class, which kinda defeats the point.

From a development standpoint, they're an extra hurdle to clear. From a security standpoint, they're a necessary evil.

YES

Oh my god. I'm not the only one who thinks this!

the horrors of object oriented programming

100%

I want an entire separation between my view and the data. We strayed from the true path as soon as we let web sites enforce the CSS

I would love to see TCP/IP replaced by something more secure and uncentralizable like Reticulum.

Is this not the most popular, widely accepted opinion?

Me when I got my commercial NAS with 7 years of support, I was thinking: "who even keeps hardware for this long?"

Me, 7 years later: "What do you mean EOL?!"

I certainly learned to care for and appreciate the hardware these years.

I agree. Designing based on "Who uses x anymore?" Just reinforces the ever-increasing cost of computing.

There's about 0.2% of people still using internet explorer, per one market share site I found.

Which works out to potentially millions of people.

That’s so why a lot of artists I know of when mixing, like to test their songs on stock/sub-par monitors. Not everyone has reference quality equipment and you want to make sure your song works just as well thumping with the windows down as with your hi-fi system.

I do my web development on a 2005 era windows XP machine without the unofficial SP4 because if it will run there (without silverlight) I know for damn sure it will run well on anything made today.

How dare you? I can absolutely assure you that it completely ruins mine.

Shun the non-believer! Shun!

Do other editors let you save multiple sessions? Where you can open up any large project exactly where you left off, every tab, split, window, layout, and file already in your buffer for all of your projects or just the last one you were working on?

If not, this feature has saved me a lot of set up time. It's been a long time since I used anything else.

Yeah! Emacs has always been the superior editor!

People (such as myself) make the argument that it does a better job because it's focused more on reading code than writing it since you don't start in the "write" mode like in most editors.

I would say the choice of text editor shouldn't make a difference in productivity so long as it doesn't actively get in your way too often (looking at you, poorly implemented autopairs) and it supports the relevant LSP and debugging protocols.

It does but not because it's vim or about any features really. It does for me personally only because I'm so used to it, most of the tasks like search, highlight, open diff, list compile errors, follow function calls etc work without mental load. Any editor will do that for you if you customize/memorize common hotkeys for your use case.

It really doesn't. The time you spend learning it and setting your config will never pay off and even after you do these things the time it saves you is negligible. I can use Zed and have 90% what Neovim offers me, it even has really good vim motions. Picking them up for productivity is a bad reason to do it.

I really liked a talk by TJ titled (Neo)Vim Made Me a Better Software Developer. The reason he uses it - is because it was basically a playground where he could play around with his code and get instant feedback as he's the "customer".

I can relate to this. Neovim is really extensible and minimal by default. This encourages 2 things:

1. To live close to your code. You really get an understanding of all of the underlying tools related to your development environment and it gives you control to make it as minimal as you want it. There's wayy less abstractions on top to simplify stuff for you. When I was a beginner using Webstorm or whatever I had no clue what a LSP was. Git? Just use built in GUI why bother learning commands? Terminal? Why would I need that? Ripgrep? Treesitter?
2. To play around, customize, build stuff. There's lots of API's and you can change a lot in the editor. I made Neovim my main markdown editor with a few tweaks in my config. It's minimal and I like it. Wayyy better than Obsidian.

And at the end of the day it's kinda fun. It makes writing code more more enjoyable as you always end up learning how to navigate your code base more efficiently. Like a game almost :)

It's pretty useful for text editing, but for any more serious code work I prefer to use an actual IDE.

As far as software development, Vim seems to me like an excellent solution for an irrelevant problem (typing speed).

Also, it's great that it's lightweight, but I bought the entire RAM and I'm going to use the entire RAM :P

I use VIM keybindings in intellij, and have done so for 10 years. There is no reason for me to be quicker or more productive than anyone without VIM. It's just a preference.

Bitlocker enabling by default without user input is horrible.

I disagree

Hosting the keys online is also horrible.

I agree

It shouldn't require a loophole to use Windows without a Microsoft account. Cloud hosting the bitlocker key does remove a lot of the security benefit in the first place. But I also recognize if you're going to enable it by default, you have to automatically store it somewhere since most people will not save it themselves. But Microsoft should not be able to access the keys either, they should be fully encrypted without the users password.

Firefox is good, Mozilla is bad

It's the only non chrome browser

This would not cause the reaction in the picture lol.

It is though

I do have to put up with an unsupported browser banner on government websites (which work perfectly)

React works by maintaining a virtual representation of the DOM. When you dispatch state changes into the virtual DOM react can determine which components depend on the change and which side useEffects run.

My gripe is that YouTube tutorials teach that the useState is the equivalent of a variable. This encourages average developers to problem solve solutions that end up using React's Virtual DOM for business logic. The YouTube tutorials have react devs planting 100s of useStates - some of which don't directly induce a visible-on-screen rerender - and then ⅒ as many useEffects to bind these states together. This means that for the Virtual DOM to come to the conclusion as to what html elements need to be changed and how it has already mutated 20-50-100s of times and the CTO tells me the react app is slow and they're mad.

If 2 states have the opportunity to mutate each other back and forth then the truth is that you have 2 perspectives of the same state. And React gives you solutions for that - proper solutions - the useReducer hook is for defining these complex state mutations and the Context API for communicating that state to any component.

And this has me quintuple pissed off because these same tutorial grade react devs install REDUX as compulsively as a pack-a-day smoker (that's #3). They use Redux to file variables in JavaScript memory (that's #4) like it's a global variable and rarely if ever use it for the complex state mutations they need instead I've seen react devs write components pull state out of redux into a component just so it can mount useEffect and process the state and dispatch the result back into redux. Let's not even bring up how the react-redux binding library literally uses the React Context API (that's #5).

If you're sharing graphical elements then I prefer pdfs when you know it's final, and you want to make sure people see it how you intended, and you want it to be vector format. Similar thing if the information is some complex format/layout. People can zoom in instead of having their device messing it up.

But I agree on simple contents like documents, tables, and such

Tab chars are better than spaces AND the correct tab width is 2 spaces

Want to know something horrendous? Odin, my current favorite language, recommends mixing tabs and spaces in their style guide.

What's worse, their justification actually makes sense.

Ooh... good one, but any good IDE and/or source control will convert tabs to spaces anyway.

I think text editors should handle it and convert between the two when convenient.

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