[-] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago

Change texit to tilt

[-] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Maybe lemmy will grow over time to include more types of people.

Social unrest may evolve this network faster than expected, in particular ways that are not foreseen. So, in my mind there are two paths for lemmy. A stable growth or chaotic .

Edit : unrest in any country that has a lot of lemmy users if alternative social networks clamp down or are unsafe to use

[-] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago

Spiders and programmers both need bugs to be able to eat

[-] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago

A successful alt would need a high level of traffic, or posting many new things a day. Some have one, some have the other.

Would be delighted to find one

[-] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago

There is a not a really good alt yet, but I personally have it blocked due to other issues

[-] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 days ago

Perspective can definitely change when one experiences needless suffering or death, or watches a loved one go through that

[-] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago

I spent a lot of time using msdn Microsoft docs for windows and activex c++ back in the day. Faintly envious there are videos in the c# docs.

I changed tech stacks, but comments and examples are awesome to use inside docs. Usually in the php, it’s the comments in the docs that are the best help, and example code and work around can be found there.

But most php depends on the tens of thousands of projects and libraries made others: so the docs one needs is scattered in the dependencies. Some who have good docs (laravel) and some that have no docs , in which case a debugger is best way to learn.

[-] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 6 days ago

There is too much blame to go around, and not enough people and orgs wanting to acknowledge blame.

Trump did not become a household name randomly. He was helped and aided by many. And I have noticed hundreds of times how the main stream media enabled his word salad and gave it meaning and power. In real life, not many people listen to blathering hateful idiots.

[-] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 days ago

When I was learning to program in the 1990s, at university, it was easy to get good advice and learning from the printed word: both in books and on websites. I think if I had to start learning all over again, and not be in a good school, it would be very hard for me to do as well.

Today there is too much advice, too many influencers who recently learned whatever they are peddling, too much AI, too many fields of tech.

I think the best way to learn now is how many of us learned decades earlier; use a list of books that are vetted by many ( can find lists here and there, saw one in GitHub last year). And while reading the books read the documentation even if they are gaps in one’s knowledge and the docs are badly written.

I don’t think one needs recent books for many concepts and basics. The wheel has been reinvented many times in the hundreds of tech stacks in use today. And the same concepts will be easy enough to learn in newer docs once a technology and programming set of tools is invested into by the learner.

As for new software engineering ideas and architecture concepts: usually these are reiterated from earlier ideas and often marketed for profit. So older architecture books, refined by several editions, are still best.

[-] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 days ago

Undersecretary for auction integrity

[-] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 6 days ago

Sounds like the nyt cherry picked some influencers to reinforce an opinion that may not be widely shared: that a viable strategy is to give up and do useless politics.

The article vaguely criticizes other movements without giving alternatives.

[-] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 6 days ago

I grew up near the Appalachian segment of the USA southeast. This was an oft repeated phrase then.

I did not even think about it while I read the comic. But methinks it’s going away in style. Everyone speaks high English here.

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