I agree it’s not a blockchain, (although it has chain properties) but it is kinda decentralized. By convention projects almost exclusively have a single remote, and by convention that single remote is treated as an ultimate source-of-truth… But you can absolutely have the same repo with multiple remotes defined, and one could establish different schemes to determine which branches on which remotes represent what in terms of “truth”.

I guess I’m saying I wished he hadn’t changed, and just did the thing he said he was going to do originally.

Harper wrote a fantastic essay on electoral reform before he was elected.

I’m not impressed by a liberal or conservative supporting reform when polling shows they’d benefit from the proposed change and then immediately forget it once they’re elected w/ FPTP.

Wow imagine if he just actually kept his campaign promise

Can I vote for obsfuscators not holding a language hostage?

Is it a common theme to shit on people for not having rollied their own C implemtations or was that a one off lapse of judgment on their part?

I’m not God’s gift to the field, but I am clearly better than most of my competition - that is, practitioners who haven’t put in the reps to build their own C libraries in a cave with scraps, but can read textbooks and use libraries written by elite institutions.

I agree not reading isn’t a virtue, but after reading something that caused my eyes to roll entirely out of my skull, I had to choose to cut the damage to my optic nerves.

Maybe the rest was good. That was bad. My critique is constrained to that specific, nauseating paragraph.

You’re not a real data scientist unless you’ve written your own libraries in C??

I couldn’t get past the inferiority complex masquerading as a confident appeal to authority.

Maybe the rest of the article was good but the taste of vomit wasn’t worth it to me.

Here, take this cigarette!

Moments before what in retrospect was inevitable, Jeremy realized he shouldn’t have crammed his rectal cavity with cheddar cheese that morning.

You don’t want a department that you throw it over the fence to, you want them embedded on your team. Keep those feedback loops TIGHT bois

My brother in Christ your account is 3 months old and this is literally the first interaction you’ve ever had in this community.

And I’m sorry if you felt abused. That wasn’t my intention.

If you have a problem with the links, find and post better links. It takes less time and has a better net impact to the platform than just dipping in to declare you won’t click the links.

People seem to wildly overestimate how much others care about what links you have some kind of personal vendetta against.

Hopefully a clear indicator to you and others that this kind of garbage engagement is worthless and unwelcome.

Lemmy has a lack of people who post. You coming in as the link police without even attempting to engage about the content at all is super discouraging to posters and super toxic.

You gotta problem with the link? Find a better one and post it yourself. Or just shut the fuck up, either way.

WOW THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION HERE WE ARE ALL VERY GRATEFUL YOU CAME TO JOIN THE CONVERSATION

I mean, I’ve never seen a real platypus but I’m not going to use that as a justification for why they can’t exist.

I don’t know what to tell you. It’s a spectrum. I’ve worked in shops that claimed to be agile but to them, that just meant JIRA and story points. I’ve worked at places where agile meant having daily standups.

And I’ve worked places where there actually was a genuine attempt, and that was an awesome place to work.

I’ll rephrase them, except in good faith:

1. Talking directly to the people about the work is better than a 95 state JIRA pipeline

2. Document your finished working work, not every broken POC, because that’s a waste of time

3. If the contract isn’t actually going to meet the desires of your stakeholders, negotiate one that will

4. If you realize the plan sucks, make a better plan.

I actually don’t think I disagree with you in principle. I had the chance to talk shop with Kent Beck, and honestly, I don’t think he would either.

Honestly, I can sum it up pretty succinctly:

“Use some common fucking sense”

I don’t think you should HAVE to read that. But, I’m routinely disappointed.

So, I love the Agile Manifesto, because instead of saying “Use your fucking head” to my managers who claim to be agile, I can much more diplomatically say “What does the agile manifesto say about that?”

What percentage of places that claim to be agile have even a single decision maker that has read the agile manifesto?

I’m going to say, generously, 3%.

Ok, I think I see your position more clearly now:

You’re thinking about people who are interested and installing based on technical interest and curiosity.

In those cases, I think you’re probably right. There is probably some base competency at play. A desire to learn. Probably someone in their sphere to support.

I’m thinking more about the type of people who would buy a Chromebook. Or my cheap ass parents who want to squeeze another 5 years out of an ailing laptop. They don’t want to spend any money and just want to use Facebook and YouTube. Send some emails. Connect to wifi. Print their boarding passes. Not have their machines riddled with viruses within minutes because their windows OS isn’t getting security updates anymore. I think this is actually a massive use case, and I want Linux to be accessible to them without needing to use the terminal for anything.