What I’ve seen lead to success:

• Arrogance
• Overconfidence
• Schmoozing with the right people
• Doing flashy work, whatever that means in a given situation

What I have seen lead to failure or, at best, being undervalued and ignored:

• Caring about teammates and your future self
• Caring about the end user and the business itself, when it conflicts with something sales, marketing, or a PM want
• Creating resilient, well-engineered systems

It’s the same problem as anywhere else. Well-crafted systems are invisible and taken for granted. Saving the day by putting out a fire is applauded, even when you’re the one who laid out the kindling and matches. Managers at all levels care about their own ego more than the company, product, or team.

Maybe I just spent too much time with ex-Microsoft hacks.

Sorry but I have no idea what you’re talking about… and I wasn’t referring to any specific company

I just want them to stop acting like egotistical know-it-all jerks all the time. They love to speak in black-and-white absolutes and IMO it just shows how much they really don’t know.

I think Dunning-Kruger also applies to smart people… you don’t stop when you are estimating your ability correctly. As you learn more, you gain more awareness of your ignorance and continue being conservative with your self estimates.

https://www.theblackproject.net/opinion-resources/like-it-or-not-everything-is-political

I have tried learning Qt but the documentation was awful

I found the Qt documentation to be quite excellent, with tons of examples and a huge community.

But for C I typically use nuklear. There’s also microui.

no screenshots?

I see nothing wrong with it personally /shrug

payoneer

p4merge

This is exactly what I do… and then never touch it again.

Anything ever found from this point on then will just be sold on tor for top dollar to the highest bidder.

POS

works fine for me /shrug

I think the only real answer is going to be “it depends on too many factors people here can only LARP about really understanding, so ask a lawyer”, and even then it still depends on what every individual judge in someone’s case thinks.

what happened to the thorns

duckduckgo, icon.horse and favicongrabber.com also have their own APIs for this

I bet there is a way this could be abused in order to proxy/tunnel arbitrary requests via google IPs. Even if it’s slow and must be done through e.g. PNG image data and dynamic subdomains or something, it would still be possible.

I like the attention to sandboxing/security that web apps are given, the ease of updating, and that the UI design is easier/more accessible (many more web devs than anything else) than traditional apps, but I still prefer the speed, size and light (memory) weight of native apps.

They probably used AI to help write it.

Komodo

My experience with IPFS over the years has been abysmal, and I think people have said the protocol design cannot sustain any more growth, which is not even that big yet at all.

You also cannot realistically search for files reliably by its hash, because of how files are divided into smaller pieces, whereby the method of dividing can change between clients, making the hashes incomparable. BitTorrent v2 solves this to my understanding, but almost nobody uses it for some reason.

Often times you need to wait several minutes for IPFS to find a file, assuming it ever finds it, which sometimes fails even on two boxes next to each other.

I wondered how many hot takes there would be… was not disappointed.