I’ve been coding for more than 20 years. Googling things is the norm but not the job. You should have all your docs and API stored offline anyway.
The guy said going back and forth with a search engine. That’s what juniors do, not software engineers.
If you google stuff all the time you have serious problems.
Bytes is a way to store data. Its unrelated to memory management, even if its automatic.
It was fun in the 80s when we had no internet, video games were a niche, and crazy people could talk about all the new games, but that era is no more.
I used to do it on the phone with YNAB, but now it’s only 2 or 3 minutes on my computer in the evening.
I never use connections to my bank so I wouldn’t know if the feature even exists, sorry. But the whole thing was a paid application that went open-source. I download the “app image” thing because it’s easier for me, but you have alternatives (desktop or web client).
The old one was better because it had no fucking subscription, and also you could reconcile future transactions which was way better for monthly stuff. For example, at the end of the month (30, 31), you have received your salary but you want to reconcile it NOW for the next month (one or two days in the future) so that you can work on your future budget right now. You can’t do that with the new YNAB.
Try https://actualbudget.org/ It’s like the old YNAB. You can self host or use the desktop version.
Why would he fund communism in the first place? (/s before you try to hit me with that downvote button).
I buy consoles because i don’t want to setup, configure, fix, ant upgrade computers.
I’m an old gamer (almost 50) and I don’t have time to play every game out there. I know that I should play Symphony of the Night but haven’t had time to try it yet, but I will.
Hollow Knight is fun for me because it’s not complicated, it’s pretty, the music is nice (I bought it on Bandcamp), and it’s a slow game with a lot of levels and a quiet and/or peaceful lore. I haven’t played it for a long time (any kind of game actually because I’m busy) but I know that when I try it again, it will be there as usual, and I will be able to explore old or new levels whether I have 10 minutes or 2 hours to play.
I don’t know if it’s a good metroidvania and I don’t think I care. I would put it on the same level as Shantae: there is no rush, have fun. You may say that it’s good for old people and I would agree. There are slow metroidvanias (Hollow Knight, Shantae, Guacamele 1/2) and fast metroidvania (Shovel Knight maybe) where you have to play regularly or you may forget what the thing is all about. With Hollow Knight, the story will stay in my head for a long time.
Last but not least, I would put Metroid (and the 2D variants: SNES, GBA) in the slow category since you can stop playing for some time and get back to the story without too much hassle. I guess it depends whether you prefer the Metroid OR the Vania side of those games.
Torrenting in a café? Get Mullvad and stop complaining.
The average user is pretty unaffected
The average user complains about Windows all the time around me and I have to fix their crap constantly. It is fucking over their daily life, either by preventing them from working or by swallowing their files into a black hole. Windows users at work don’t care about it, but around me when it’s their personal computer, it’s a disaster.
switching would require not only learning one new thing, but a large number of new things
Any Ubuntu from 10 years ago is identical to the latest Windows. It’s laziness, fear, or being hostage, but it’s certainly not learning something new. Also, Windows 11 is completely different from the previous versions and it didn’t seem to bother them.
People say Stockholm syndrome is fake, but when I see Windows users, I know it’s real. They have been suffering for years and never thought once about alternatives like Ubuntu.
“Oh Linux is too complicated, I can’t do that.” Yeah, you can’t click on Firefox to open Firefox, or LibreOffice to write a document. That’s too hard.
To rant a bit, the last time I helped my parents, I removed every icon from their desktop and installed Firefox with uBlock Origin. Only Firefox on the desktop, it was idiot proof. When I came back, Firefox had disappeared and on the desktop I saw: Edge, 2 copies of Chrome with the most scummy plugins ever, and one Chrome fork that came from an adware that they purposefully installed (WTF). I told them that they had a virus, and that from now on I wouldn’t help them anymore. They like to suffer, I let them.
Over-engineered. Too many moving parts. Refactor
Why would a manager give his opinion on code?
It happens all the time with me, I see it as a blessing.
I’m interested to know why it’s done like that. It seems awful. Do you have some SCM like git? Do you have restrictions like working for the army? So many questions.
I’m asking because I’ve seen that a lot in the past and it was always due to bad practices that no one wanted or could change.
There are a lot of offline doc downloaders, man pages, books, even raw repositories to make sure that you’re independent and can work offline or without a VPN to the company.
And again, I was only saying that only juniors do google searches all the time. When you get some experience, you have broader tasks like adding features, debugging, handling the architecture, or refactoring that require less google stuff.