XKCD 149 but worse.

Well that’s largely because so few companies are doing agile correctly. Its usually some form of agilefall.

Nope.

If you want to do the software equivalent of digging a ditch that’s cool, but I’m not sure why you would expect to get an engineer’s salary for doing so.

The idea that coding is the only part of your job is “actual work” is where you’re going wrong. The goal is to create robust, well-functioning software that’s documented and fulfills what it needs to do, not write an arbitrary amount of code. Your job is more than just doing the part you like.

I’m really not a fan of echo chambers on politics, and lemmy tends to be well outside of mainstream politics.

I think I was running x11amp, but it was Linux-only at the time.

While most people on Lemmy are going to know what this means, the person who wrote this error message was definitely trying to be cute with that phrasing.

Only on one instance, because I don’t want the same bookmarks and set of extensions on every computer. I wish it were more configurable.

I mean…yeah, of course this was going to happen. Did people think they would ignore 3rd party apps providing a work around for their ad block?

Linux generally has a higher (perceived?) technical barrier to entry so people who opt to go that route often have strong opinions on exactly what they want from it. Not to mention that technical discussions in general are often centered around decided what the “right” way to do a thing is. That said regardless of how the opinions are stated, options aren’t a bad thing.

Remove seems like a terrible name for that method.

The watermark over the watermark on this…for that extra shitposty goodness.

I haven’t had a single page resume in over a decade, I think you usually want to have more for SEO purposes. A lot of places filter by keywords.

I think some people view it as “if you’re meant to be a coder your natural curiosity towards how things work will probably lead you to writing code naturally.” But it’s a pretty gatekeepy point of view.

But a lot of developers do do exactly that. They not only distribute binaries on their github, it is the only place where they distribute binaries. Github should probably recognize that it is a common use case and accommodate it better.

I’m also sure that a lot of people, like myself, took no notice of what specific package this user was complaining about, and are simply agreeing with the general sentiment that github could make things easier for non-technical users (which would, in turn, make it easier for developers since they would not need to field questions from users about how they download the software).

To strain your metaphor, I think what most people are looking for is a sign that says “FOOD COURT THIS WAY ->”

If they just had a prominent link to “download latest stable version” in a consistent place, people wouldn’t be so confused (and devs wouldn’t have to do extra work to try and make it obvious).

On the one hand most power users feel this way. On the other hand power users probably aren’t the majority of users (although it depends on the product).

Mplayer -> MPV

Mine care, but they have no idea what I do since the process of enterprise software development is totally foreign to them.