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Same. I decided to just go back to Sublime Text.

Your take is very weird.

He's shopping around. When something is out of his budget it's natural to not buy.

I think his complaint is not that he has to pay money per se, but having to pay several thousand dollars. That's a bit much for an independent developer.

Microsoft, as they have acquired both github and npm

The problem here is not npm or the package itself.

The absurdity of 140k weekly downloads is a result of CI/CD practices.

I'm probably in the minority here but I think npm and github should actively disallow (or atleast discourage by making it very uncomfortable) to re-download the same dependencies from the internet on every pull request.

Cool. The only thing I was aware of is this one:

    "features": {
        "copilot": false
    }

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Yea, it's unfortunate.

I also find their layout "framework"/API to be weird and counter intuitive.

Also many of us were much younger, even teenagers, with little to no exposure to HR hell.

Sorry I'm not reallying buying this as an organic unforseen set of events.

It all looks staged or planned by someone or something.

The key to find out is to look for a business move that used to be illegal but now became legal due to the unfolding events.

Communications is NOT like having things in your homes.

It's like economic transactions, which the state already tracks.

> Marketing is an evil necessity

Why are you labeling it as "evil"?

You are framing marketing activity as click baiting and being a clown.

This is not a matter of fact. It's an emotional projection stemming from refusing to succeed.

Martyr syndrome.

"I refuse to succeed!"

To each their own, I guess?

> It seems to have only caught on because a lot of people felt adrift when it comes to Git and this was written far too authoritatively for what it is.

My hypothesis is the design of the page and the images played a big role in convincing people this is "legit".

Is "feature flag as a service" the new trend in backend development?

Why would anyone replace a literal byte in memory with a full program?

Why?

There's nothing special about flags that makes them more likely for an intern to delete by mistake.

It's just code.

If the team is so bad that an intern can mess things up, they will, and the mess will have nothing to do with feature flags.

I was hoping one can setup a "modern" C development environment without resorting to Docker.

Using Docker for setup a C development environment indicates that there are too many moving parts and the development environment is essentially very complex and that there's nothing that one do about it.

I wish more people would write such guides with the aim of reducing the development environment to its essentials that can be installed system-wide without being disruptive and thus not needing "Docker".

The notion is highly misguided.

What actually hides being it is: unless everyone cares about it, then no one cares.

What if only one in a thousand people care? That's a huge number. You could have 10k or 100k readers.

It's a minuscule number compared to everyone, but it's a huge number for a blog.

So if I create a brand around a drink I can just run a few commercials on TV to associate my brand with something people want (like I don't know, being percieved as sexy by the opposite sex) then I will have a successful business?

100% anyone who tries this will fail

Doesn't even work there.

It only appears to work if you think that kind of advertising is how they got to their market position. Usually it's not.

Let's Docker for an example.

Docker did not get adoption because of some cliche marketing on their landing page. It got adoption from people doing tech talks and tech demonstrations and several companies writing blog posts about how migrating to Docker saved them from the headaches of deployment they were having before with the ad-hoc systems.

Complex enterprise tech gets sold by other means, usually personal relationships with key decision makers, and maybe some amount of bribery, who knows.

Talking about supposed benefits instead of features is the worst marketing advice I've ever heard that's often repeated by everyone.

It obviously doesn't work.

Can you imagine a restaurant flyer that just says "Enjoy delicious meals! Have fun time!"

It's absurd.

You show pictures of the food. Tell people how you source your ingredients. How your chefs have perfected their craftsmanship. Etc etc.

That's not what it means to not care about commit messages.

It means the commit only needs to make sense to my self until next week.

If I see a commit from 2 weeks ago and I don't know what the message means, who cares? I hardly look at those commits.

as a solo developer, you are free to commit however you want

I use commits as rollback points. If something works and I want to try something risky, I commit first. I don't care about the commit message. I basically never look at any commit older than one month

Substack let's you turn that off (as the author).

I'm not sure about noe but for a very long time Adobe Photoshop did not support complex bidirectional text.

No one made anything up. It's obviously the intent of the question.

You can pretend that's not the case all you want.

Yea this seems like an argument in favor of extensive (and confusing) legaleese / lawyerese

If you're interested in what it takes to render bidirectional text with complex scripts and line breaking, I had the experience of implementing that (in immediate mode too) and wrote about it here:

https://hasen.substack.com/p/imgui-text

I mean, not really. The hard work was done by benbjohnson who is now working on https://litestream.io/ and https://fly.io/

He's the one who wrote BoltDB https://github.com/boltdb/bolt

I just put a relatively thin layer on top of it.

Now, to address your point more directly: I'm too stupid to figure out configuration, but not too stupid to figure out code. Code gets compiled and type checked. You can have tests, etc. Tractability for code is much higher than configuration.

With configuration, you have to be really smart and keep many moving parts in your head.

With code, you can be a bit dumb and lean heavily on the tooling.