Spider

Learning to code isn’t it. Spending so many hours practicing Dijkstra’s algorithm and object oriented programming is relevant to building software for other people to use, not controlling it or maintaining your own things.

If you want control of your own machines, learn the terminal, learn operating systems and how to understand network APIs. Learn how to use WireShark to examine how your own devices talk to the internet so that you understand how they work. A generic programming course will not take you in this direction.

The first half of this story made me wonder if we were colleagues.

The second half was different though. Our guy was a personal friend of some high up, slandered the existing codebase without so much as even speaking to the existing devteam, and then took the better part of a year claiming he could replace the entire decade old codebase while making vague promises that it was coming soon. Meanwhile upper management was taking the slander seriously, punished my department and got a new manager for it. It wasnt until the new manager outed him as a fraud for his ass to finally get caught.

I doubt he was able to read the legacy codebase at all.

Disadvantages of Gerrymandering:

• the number of representatives for each party elected do not match the population’s actual preferences.
• reduced competetion between political parties means the population’s needs receive less attention.

Disadvantages of a one party dictatorship:

• The number of representatives for each party elected do not match the population’s actual preferences.
• Absent competetion between political parties means the population’s needs receive no attention.
• no checks and balances means no bill of rights exists.
• no checks and balances also means no regulation to protect the population’s needs.
• possible human extinction in nuclear winter.

I think it’s possible for digital sales, as opposed to subscriptions, might become a viable business model.

Everything is in subscriptions because its possible to mitigate that 30% tax by doing bulk inventory magic and pooling resources. No customer would pay an extra 30% on every individual transaction when they feel that owning something digitally should be cheaper than owning it physically. Thats why Google Play Movies/books/whatever is like pretty much the only pay-for-digital license thing in the play store and all the other 3rd parties are left only giving out rental subscriptions. 30% is simply far too much to add onto every item.

Yeah im sure they could just use their spare 2 million dollars they had sitting around after the Camp fire to buy a home in a safer area in northern California. Easy peasy.

Ah, so that’s what the pro gamers are doing.

How on earth did you grow up believing that people that look similar at all think similar? Did you grow up in a safety bubble? A padded room? Have you ever been outside once in your entire life? Did you climb out of a time machine from the 1600s? Lmfao.

edit: poster edited comment to sound sarcastic.