I am feeling confused with this meme. I am going to escalate this to my manager, secretly hopong he’ll tell me to do something else while he passes this on to the one dude in my team who’s worked with multithreading that one time.

If I find this in production I’m whipping your ballsack till you change it back.

But they do contribute, dont they?

It has a certain shitposty quality to it

You mean for programming documentation?

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for linking!

Also, this exact post, down to the word structure, shows up in these and similar communities every once in a while. I’m convinced this is a dark pattern marketing scheme - pretending to be a good faith user in these communities while secretly pushing this app as the prime directive.

This is probably the third or fourth time I’m seeing this post.

I’ve been looking at this for some time now and I’m still as confused as I was in the beginning.

Hi, what do you mean by modal?

Give me your dotfiles or I will sneak into your home and tie all the sleeves of your shirts into knots

Cryptomator is free and about as easy as encryption comes.

Makes sense. Are there any alternatives which lets you pick and choose which objects to sync on the file level? I didn’t really know that was an option except for finangling rsync with cron jobs or something.

Cloud storage is something I’m okay paying for. In general, if I want near 100 percent uptime, I’m ok paying for it, because the alternative is making sure it works by myself, and I have much more important shit to do.

I hear good things about them. The core team seems solid as far as engineering experience goes, and as long as they don’t sell out or get acquired they’re a pretty viable replacement.

Like Shia Labeouf from that song.

Actual Cannibal Richard Stallman!

Maybe you can put aside a day which has nothing else going on so you can sit down and fix it before it breaks.

I appreciate the effort you took to type the reply out. Thank you, this will help me a ton.

I have more questions but I don’t want to waste your time by sending you questions that came out stream of consciousness style.

If you would be willing to share, I’d like to know what kind of disability you have. DMs are fine, and even more it’s 100% alright if you don’t want to share at all.

I dont think that the stars comparison is very fair. One is a complex version control and product infrastructure system that intermediate users or experts in the domain get familiar with. The other is a coding tutorial series that literally everyone and their dog forks or saves when they start out on learning programming - every college student, every high schooler that has a CS 100, etc. etc.

Also, is there any point to being discovered by the legion of new users and learners on github? What about discovery by people that actually have the inclination and expertise, and have shown the willingness to commit to a smaller user-base because it’s FOSS?

Not trying to disprove or devalue your perspective, just trying to point out that the masses might be wrong to choose the popular option to help get “discovered”.

How do we break out of this path of trying to get big enough to break custom, and once you’re big enough not having the guts to test wide sweeping changes?

Bravo for the great summary and expanding on the article. I’d like to subscribe to everything you write.

Agree on the VScode comments. Some of the scummiest business maneuvering from Microsoft. The terrifying part is its slowly becoming so ingrained that its going to take a long time and a lot of directed effort to undo the damage.

Agree on the consultancy angle - this is woefully becoming more and more commonplace as true from-scratch engineering dies on the wayside. Do you think this can be mitigated by, say, college courses that concentrate on the base form of the programming domain? Maybe web development with backend hosted on a machine in the classroom, with a registered domain on an external registrar instead of the usual localhost bullshit, and students responsible for routing etc? Like an emulation of the old days when you started learning web dev on your home computer and stayed with it until you were pretty much a journeyman engineer?