we do cross platform stuff and I’m 99% of the time working on Linux, now I have to do some .NET core C# coding, was frustrated first with the language support on Linux - until I tried Rider. If I’ll have to do more C# going forward I’ll consider asking my employer to buy me a Rider license. The alternative would probably be me booting to Windows for that project (which I absolutely hate doing and only rarely have to)
Well that’s the platform effect kicking in. Once you ascend to become the environment, you are above petty little competition, you are the system.
Oh I’ve heard some billionaire was planning to go there too, with his kingdom. Maybe pick a different planet.
Are you talking about ePA? Because this is how you leak a lot of sensitive data into all the wrong hands, including hostile countries like the US (central storage in US company clouds) or opportunistic hackers (illegitimate and uncontrolled access to patient data).
I agree that very often stuff is over discussed, but sometimes some garbage solution is deployed that really should not have happened.
They should first repair streets, bridges and schools, and then maybe hire some proper IT specialists before pushing the digitization, Germany is maybe the land of the engineers, but most definitely not of the software engineers. At least the good ones certainly do not end up working for public infrastructure.
How is it that companies known for garbage software such as Microsoft and SAP dominate their domains? Apparently software quality or UX is not even in the top 10 of what you need to run a successful business. I guess Thiel was onto something with his “become a monopoly as quickly as possible and then squeeze the customers out when they cannot run away”, the concept is much older than his fascist version of it.
Somehow I can’t imagine European countries fighting each other again. Fighting at the borders of the EU? Maybe. But like, Europe infighting like back in the old days? No fucking way. Against Russia and/or the US? That may be. But I also do not think so. It will continue to be a hybrid war played out by propaganda and economical warfare, and the occasional tactical military flare-up. I think in our post-modern times almost nobody wants an old school war. Hard to sell to everyone. No need if you can get whatever you want using other manipulations.
The multi-wumms of a country being driven against the wall. Probably against the anti-fascist firewall. Let’s put oil in the fire, maybe it helps.
I did that for 3 years. Funny how it seems to be a universal experience. Confirms to me how it’s pretty much the same, regardless of project, funding or scientific area.
For me it was a bit heartbreaking to see, because I loved the idea of writing software for research. But the reality was that academia simply does not have the right structures to support serious and sustainable software development and until that changes, it feels more like a thankless “bullshit job”.
You simply can’t run software development in such a opportunistic and chaotic way like scientists do their research and write papers.
Nice! That also needs some reasonably good management to see your skills and talents.
Can totally see why you might not like roles “above”. There’s always some point where you stop solving the kind of problems you find interesting and have more bullshit to fight than it would be worth.
Like my team lead wisely said, “never become a team lead”, and I’m absolutely not interested, seeing all the crap he has to out up with, manage and firefight (I’m happy he does it while I can stay pretty relaxed and keep doing all the fun stuff).
That sounds pretty cool, I could imagine myself doing that.
How did you get into such a role? Is it some kind of consultancy?
My last job was: PowerPoint presentation and poster designer, educator, communicator and mind reader.
Tried to be software developer in science, turns out that I had to spend much more time promoting whatever little coding I do to interested parties, and creating software based on guesses what they could need and what the right thing probably should be.
It was a mess, for many reasons.
Now I’m an actual software architect and engineer.
As a metaphor, somewhere between apprentice dark magician (when sprinkling in some fancy things not many others would be able to do), gardener (need to clean up a lot of weeds, tidy up and revitalize the decomposing codebase, trim some rotten code branches) and strategist (when conceptually working on the mid and long-term planning and high level goals).
For me it was more like:
Ages 11-16: unaware sad cringe
Ages 17-24: learning to hide it
Ages 25-27: reaching achievement mountain, followed by
Age 28: quarter life crisis valley and the realization
Ages 29-now: unlearning to hide it and actually feeling good
Life is a beautiful journey. Just need to look with the right eyes.
Congratulations, you made it big on Mastodon! Teach me your ways.
This is the way.
That sucks, but you can put some isolation tape on LEDs.
But I wish something horrible to those who thought it’s a great idea to make every goddamn electronic device make beeping noises.
My water boiler, fan, washing machine. In my childhood I don’t remember everything beeping at every interaction. It makes me furious and you often cannot fully disable it.
Once I tried to solder the beeper out but my soldering iron was probably not suitable so I failed :(
This is not wrong, but only in the sense of everything can be made money off. That’s just capitalism.
But apart from that, renewables are better for people, for the environment and for power distribution (no pun intended) because people can have solar energy themselves making energy more decentralized.
So what if somebody does get rich on solar and wind? Its important to not become too dependent on one Capitalist supplying some central piece of the non-fossil tech stack, for sure, but I think your simplification is not doing the whole topic justice and equating two very different things.
It’s like saying, plant based meat is bad because some capitalist is getting rich. Okay, rather keep eating meat, more than before, just to spite the evil startups producing veggie sausages!
Es geht nicht um skepsis Gegenüber Computern, sondern vor denen, die hinter diesen Systemen stecken und was für eine Verschiebung am Macht und Rechten damit einhergeht.
Als weiterer Softwareentwickler in der Runde wünsche ich mir auch eine nicht rein technische Sicht in der Politik. Aber auch schon technisch ist die zentrale Cloud eine absolute Katastrophe. Ich hab der EPA primär aus technischen Gründen widersprochen. Meine Daten liegen auf keine Weise “sicher” in irgendeiner angemieteten zentralen IBM cloud.
https://www.heise.de/news/Wie-es-mit-der-elektronischen-Patientenakte-weitergeht-10277642.html
Aber auch technische bedenken werden nicht ernst genommen. Oft genug haben Technik-Experten gravierende Mängel gefunden und es wird weg ignoriert wie “blockierer-geschwätz”.
Ich will Digitalisierung, auf jeden Fall, aber nicht um jeden Preis und nicht auf die falsche Art umgesetzt.
Yep, we have this one short and precious life. Should not waste it thinking too much about the eternity of un-being that comes after and rather make the most of the time we have here.
I put them on humus-rich soil
(I’ll show myself out)
That is just needlessly mean. Done that once to some rando, even worse. I dumped a rant on them. They deleted the post and their account. I felt bad. Don’t be like me.