nalekberov

Fun fact (if you care): Back in the '90s, pretty much every music video produced in Azerbaijan literally matched the lyrics.

We are talking about handful amount of billionaire who manipulate masses, not Industrial Revolution and technological advancements.

The issues you enumerated were very well addressed in the socialist USSR.

Except, it’s actually you, who enjoys these toys and distractions.

There will always be people like you, who will accept every single shit, then call them “gift from builders”.

Mine is OLED, perhaps this is the reason I am not among those billions :(

EDIT: You edited your comment after I submit my response. You cannot put arbitrary abbreviations and expect people to read your mind. Anyway, there is no point in arguing with you.

Granted “we” are billionaires.

Not only you didn’t get the point, but you still hold on to your delusions:

> life for our kin will only be better.

Right? In this subscription economy? Where you have just limited time to watch the movie you loved? You can’t afford to rent the house you loved let alone buy it? (previous generations could afford) the list goes on and on.

Maybe stop spreading lies and see things more objectively?

I don’t understand these rewrites, honestly, what is the point? Who have had any C++ related issues while working with Postgres?

The internet will soon be flooded with even more scam landing pages.

> We don't want physical media, we want digital ownership rights! Don't confuse the argument!

I don't know who's "we" for the author, but I DO want physical media. I want to have the feeling when I reach to my video game disc, take it out and put it into my console. Besides DRM-free digital purchase doesn't guarantee that the thing you bought won't disappear - digital game store can you bankrupt, video game publisher might legally force its title to be removed, etc., the list goes on and on.

I don't know about many people, but the author for sure doesn't understand the primary purpose of code review.

If the primary purpose of code review is to assess maintainability, there is no need for review, that can be done by automated tooling (formatting, bad naming, cyclomatic complexity etc.)

Well, I guess occasional $4.7B fines are just the cost of doing business for Google. They have a monopoly in multiple categories, such as search engine, online advertising and strong dominance in maps and video hosting -- surely at this point money isn't an issue for them anymore.

I have been collecting many used CDs and DVDs for some ten years - some of them 15+ years old, some of them are covered in scratches and they still work pretty well. Clearly, you are:

a. Spreading lies

b. Exaggerating your experience

Now, Will they last forever? Of course not, but they are mine!

Who said that? It was Apple, who sold their iPhones at astronomic margins, created walled gardens. There could be other solutions to this problem - one being, signing exclusive deals with vendors.

> We have never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly. We have shielded our customers from these increases so far, but we have now reached a point where we need to begin raising prices on a number of products, including today’s increases for iPad and Mac. We know this is not welcome news, and we are working tirelessly to find solutions.

In other words, we have to protect our billions of cash from burning.

They could keep the prices down, but then again for these C-suites everything should go up, right? Who cares if the market is “ready” for price jumps? Who cares when HDD, memory manufactures prioritize Sam Atmans? Heck, half-made, buggy games now starts at $80 price point.

It’s unfortunately billionaires’ world.

> not because I didn't like them, I still support Cloudflare and they're a great company,

Great for what? Centralizing the internet? making it impossible to exercise your rights to delete your account? Not making alternative plans when one line of change breaks many services?

Taste is subjective indeed, but for me they were more expressive and visually appealing than ironed out icons.

Probably no one caused more damage than John Ive to Apple (post-Jobs period).

Removal of skeuomorphism, removal of essential ports, making MacBooks so thin that they wouldn’t work without overheating to name a few.

I am so glad he is gone now, it’s not all bells and whistles for Apple now, but at least it’s way more pleasing to own Apple devices any more.

Humans make mistake then to learn from it. A really good expert would never deliberately copy-paste an obscure solution from the internet, then to ask for forgiveness later.

AI agents do that, perhaps not always, but still do. Now the question: would I trust AI without verifying its output?

I’ll just put this link here: https://killedbygoogle.com/

It’s also the reason, why you will never be able to repair or upgrade your computer in the future. From technological point of view these are indeed big advancements.

However, I couldn’t care less about faster CPU when:

1. It limits my ability to upgrade my system

2. Windows gets increasingly bloated and slower

What is the point of allowing a developer to spend $18,000 a year on AI subscriptions? Can't they hire a decent developer who is capable of producing a quality solution faster? Clearly, these decisions are all made by high-level management team.

I was recently talking to an HR person from a European company, and she goes: 'We are forcing our developers to use AI coding agents, but they are still kind of hesitant.' This person had never written a single line of code, nor did she know what software engineering is. For these people, using AI coding agents = faster delivery without breaking anything.

We will soon see "improved" 'AI Mode' most likely.

> If you want to go down that semantic route, then being an open source maintainer clearly isn't a profession, as it requires neither specialized training nor qualifications!

Open source software maintenance without qualifications? I hope you understand how disastrous it would be for serious software like rsync.

> Same issue there. A profession is an occupation that you get paid for doing.

Wrong, a profession is an occupation that requires specialized training or qualifications. This means one can have a profession and still not get paid.

> And he mainly seems to be getting abuse in return for that service.

What abuse you are referring to?

My bad, I meant profession.

No reasonable maintainer would recklessly merge something he/she hasn’t reviewed. Well, those who blindly accept whatever AI outputs… perhaps it’s time for them to find another job.

Just because one offers software for free doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be standards.

> Everyone is still learning how and how much AI should be used and we shouldn't be too harsh on opensource developers.

The main problem with using AI in open source software is that millions of people rely on your code, but you risk exposing them all to something unverified.

Sanctioned company != works for the government.

Any source to back up your claims? Otherwise it seemed pretty much a conspiracy theory to me.

JSON isn’t ideal either, however missing curly braces are much easier to fix than figuring out where you misaligned entries without going through entire config file.

YAML is the worst format.

You are literally one missing tab away from breaking your entire configuration file. Yet the industry keeps pushing it for the sake of “simplicity” - for small configurations sure, it’s fine, but many hundred lines of config entries? Good luck fixing it, if something goes wrong.

I still can’t get why software engineers suddenly started to hate XML.