Jon Skeet? He’s my hero, but he hasn’t worked at MS for quite some time I believe.

This looks interesting. I’d not heard of this before.

Question marked as duplicate: answered in this thread from 15 years ago with no relevant information on anything you were actually asking and has now been deleted — https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1/where-oh-where-did-the-joel-data-go

Why do people resort to insults when other people prioritize things differently? This always baffles me, and I’ve been seeing it a lot on Lemmy lately.

I don’t have a NAS. I don’t want a NAS. I have no need for a NAS. I have iCloud purely for my mother, and my time is way more valuable than the cost of iCloud. I also don’t want to deal with troubleshooting if something goes wrong. I fight enough fires at work when a release goes sour.

I’m not stupid because I value my time more than the cost of a subscription. I value the ease of use for my mother more than the cost of a subscription. I understand your values don’t align with mine. That’s okay! You’re not stupid for that. And I’m not stupid for my choices.

Try to see the human and realize that we all have individual lives, goals, and priorities. Insulting people for being different than you is something we should be moving away from, not continuing.

As much as I consider the first trilogy one of his weaker series mist born would have to be mine. The idea of flying through the mists with tassels trailing you is just a cool look to me.

I take it you’ve never worked in a MASSIVE enterprise solution, then. I believe OC meant heavy in the sense that it uses more resources than a similar IDE would. Idk who you run into, but pretty much every dev I know is a gamer/builds their own pc. I’ve gotten into debates about which CPU is better than another for specific tasks. I don’t know a single dev who doesn’t know how to install an os.

I… don’t know what kind of junior devs fresh out of freshman CS classes you’ve been meeting, but that’s an incredibly reductive and insulting generalization to make. I don’t even… The VAST MAJORITY of devs don’t know how to install an os? Or what hardware they have? If you work in a large enough solution and don’t know how much RAM you have, then you aren’t complaining to management enough. We finally got them to upgrade us to 32gb, and most of us are already begging for 64. I would also prefer if we split the solution out into multiple solutions personally, but I doubt that will happen soon.

I use Rider for c#. I genuinely despise VS. it takes forever to build, crashes randomly, and it took ages for them to add decompilation debugging without the need of loading symbols. Now that VS has a lot of the resharper tools built in it’s a bit better. I still dislike it and pay for Rider myself so I can use it instead of VS at work.

I went to the store since I didn’t want to wait until October. I got a 15 pro in black with the base storage. I had a 12 mini previously. I’m still getting used to the size but I’m liking the phone so far.

Obviously my first point is take her to a Microcenter or something and test them out. Every keyboard has different travel distance and resistance.

I write in my m1 MacBook Pro. When I type very fast I sometimes worry I’m clipping under the keys. Other than that, I love it. Ive written way more since I got it, and the feel of the laptop is perfect. There are some solid windows laptops for typing too. Ultimately, for a writer, it’s going to come down to what keyboard she likes the feel of. It’s hard to write when it feels like a chore because I hate the keyboard (the old butterfly switches for example, I could NOT use.

Honestly I charged my series one like every 2-3 days. It’s still got a day and a half of battery life.

I had the same experience. I even gave my series 1 to my mom after I upgraded this year. It lasted me a long time, but I wanna swim with my watch, dammit. That being said my friend had the series 6 and said the battery life degraded massively after a year.

No problem! That means you get to be one of todays lucky 10,000. They were definitely sought out positions. It did eventually enter common discussion as just a group of tech giants that pay higher than others. That’s why Microsoft was always implied for me.

There were tons of people who’d get a couple years in at one of the major companies and then just use that experience to work wherever they wanted and enjoy themselves. I couldn’t see myself working for one of those companies though. I think it’d be cool to work on some of the stuff they work on, but it seems like the work culture has gone down hill from when Google used to be considered an awesome place to be a dev.

You’re right that it won’t. I will say that I switched from Firefox to chrome when it was still in beta (nobody I talk to ever remembers the “goats teleported” metric). Chrome was way faster. It didn’t handle memory well, but it was the best for me for a long time. The extensions were great.

I just downloaded Firefox on all my devices and I’ve been happy so far. Not as fast as chrome or edge, but gets me closer to leaving google.

It was actually about the stocks. Microsoft wasn’t a part of it because they weren’t “new”. I’m pretty sure Microsoft is actually in the new tech-stock-group.

After it was popularized as a group of tech stocks to buy, people just used it to talk about the biggest software companies, and a lot of devs I talked to (myself included) kinda implied Microsoft when we said FAANG. And while those companies did tend to pay higher than other devs, I think it’s pretty understood that comes with expectations and stress. None of my dev friends would ever wanna work in that environment.

I hadn’t heard of them. That’s a pretty cool concept though. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!