ascendantlogic

We all know how this ends. The open source project ends up being crippled to the point it's no longer useful.

> I don't even know where to start...

Literally anywhere is better than just hand waving the parent statement away with nebulous, unverifiable claims of your own experience.

The Supreme Court is determined to give him unfettered power to do whatever he wants so I'm sure once it reaches them they'll strike down whatever the lower court does to stop him.

Any days in office just to spend most of it on zoom calls is too many.

Would you be comfortable letting your mother vibe code a budgeting app that had access to her various banking and financial service credentials?

Do me a favor and spend a few years in the early 2000's writing enterprise javabeans in a place doing waterfall. Then you'll understand how we ended up with agile.

> the future is in everyone being able to make their own app.

Everyone can do their own plumbing and electrical work in their homes too. For some people it works out, for others it's still better to pay someone else to do it for them.

Time is a flat circle and what is old is new again.

Yes, this is exactly where AI shines: PoCs and validating ideas. The problems come when you're ready to scale. And the "I can hire some devs to remake my product from scratch" part is the exact money making scenario some of my consulting friends are starting to see take shape in the market.

Anecdotally I'm already seeing this on a small scale. People who vibe coded a prototype to 1 mil ARR are realizing that the velocity came at the cost of immense technical debt. The code has reached a point where it is essentially unmaintainable and the interest payments on that technical debt are too expensive. I think there's going to be a lot of money to be made over the next few years un-fucking these sort of things so these new companies can continue to scale.

> Here’s the thing - we want to help. We want to build good things. Things that work well, that make people’s lives easier. We want to teach people how to do software engineering!

This is not what companies want. Companies want "value" that customers will pay for as quickly and cheaply as possible. As entities they don't care about craftsmanship or anything like that. Just deliver the value quickly and cheaply. Its this fundamental mismatch between what engineers want to do (build elegant, well functioning tools) and what businesses want to do (the bare minimum to get someone to give them as much money as possible) that is driving this sort of pulling-our-hair-out sentiment on the engineering side.

Nothing made me more enraged than trying to express test steps via regex. I will never go down that road again.

Congratulations. The planet has ~8 billion people on it and everyone is different.

> I built it initially as a favor

That's a hell of a favor. Is this something you built by yourself or were you part of a larger team?

The word "hijacking" in this scenario would only be applicable if the domain was still registered and active and he forcefully took the domain away. That is not the case. The fact OP was able to register it quickly and easily indicates it was unused and to call this "hijhacking" would imply permanent ownership of domains even after previous owners knowingly let the registration lapse.

The legality of hosting a tracker isn't obvious, and as pointed out elsewhere the nuance is less about concrete legality and more about having the resources to deal with lawyers harassing you with lawsuits.

I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not.

Why are you posting here when you could be crushing it™ delivering 100x value to your shareholders? You've already failed.

> If you want free stuff, is your strategy to smear them into giving you more free stuff?

Docker literally offers free stuff if you follow their process. They followed the process and have gotten silence in return. Somehow that doesn't strike me as "smear them into giving you more free stuff".

Don't say you're going to do a thing if you're not going to do the thing.

I think the Onion is as good as it ever was. The issue now is that the real news is so wild and unhinged the Onion doesn't have that segment cornered anymore.

The responses here are definitely indicative of who has good relationships with their coworkers and who doesn't. I feel like the point of this exercise is to foster better relationships overall.

Paid take homes are probably the least worst way to suss out signal in today's hiring market. The only time I had better was when I just set up a nights/weekends arrangement with a company and just started ripping through real tickets. Ended up getting hired on full time and they cut me a check for a few thousand dollars up front. It was very nice.

You're missing the subtle sarcasm here. OP is implying that companies will deem engineers making $150k+ as making policy decisions in order to continue enforcing the existing non-competes they have most likely signed.

I tend to use https://lima-vm.io/ these days when I need a quick VM environment locally on my laptop.

The only problem I have with BG3 is now it has (hopefully temporarily) ruined everything I've tried to play after. I just started in on Rogue Trader and so far I'm enjoying it so I hope the "Nothing can compare to BG3" phase has passed for me.

At some point someone has to explain to you what law you broke and how you broke it. We'll see how this goes for the SEC. I'm not convinced they're going to end up on the winning side with these vague enforcement lawsuits substituting for policy/law from the legislative branch.

I feel like this won't end up going well for the SEC. This whole methodology of telling exchanges "I don't know, you figure it out" when they ask for clarity and then turning around and suing them for not figuring it out is extremely shaky legal ground.

Instead of typing inflammatory nonsense about the "quality of their journalism" you could have very easily looked up the definition of the word in the same amount of time. You're obviously just attempting concern trolling.

Sure would be nice if they'd actually lay out what rule(s) were broken then, I guess.

What would be the alternative here? Meta bans people from selling live animals or bans them from selling programming courses?

> A lot of 12 factor sounds like common sense to people who regularly ship stuff.

In 2023, yes. A lot of the 12 factor methodologies became table stakes in the modern cloud era. Back when this was written "cloud" was not nearly as ubiquitous as it is now, although we were certainly headed in that direction. A lot of the comments here are viewing this through a 2023 lens and forgetting it was written in 2011.