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Quote: In all, developers are spending up to 40% of their time in testing and quality assurance alone, the survey revealed – time that could instead be used iterating on their code and launching new features.
39% spent on the giant piles of legacy code and frameworks the app was cobbled together with ... that no one dares rewrite.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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It's always entertaining, in a sad, depressing way, how programmers point the fingers at things like management (well, ok, there's good reason for that), bugs, team size, budgets, etc., rather than pointing the finger at themselves: "wow, maybe I'm better suited as a sanitation engineer."
Granted, there is validity to budgets, team size, dealing with legacy code, etc., but at the end of the day, one's success, and having the time to be innovative, actually falls on me. Not 100%, but a 51% owning stock, often enough.
And one more point. I actually rarely experience developers that have any interest in being innovative. They pretty much just see the job as a way to pay the bills.
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He said platforms should have to prove they have systems in place to identify and remove unlawful content. The fox would like to discuss the structure and security of your new hen house
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Art is unlawful.
Being PC is not the same as being moral.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Zuckerberg is just talking his book. "Should have to prove" implies regulation, and this one would create a nice barrier to entry for would-be competitors.
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exactly...
He can be a lot of things, but one thing he is not is dumb.
M.D.V. 
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Quote: Zuckerberg's proposal, were it to be adopted by Congress, probably wouldn't require Facebook to make too many changes to its current moderation practices.
Yup, not much change for fArseBook, or any other tech megacorp already spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a mix of artificial idiocy and slave labor to try and delete crap posted by ![Sunshine | [little ray of sunshine]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/sunshine.gif) s; but that will freeze out anyone not able to spend equally as much thus securing their monopolies.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
modified 25-Mar-21 15:31pm.
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I’ve seen a lot of buzz recently about software developers wanting to form unions. Workers of the world! Compile!
Yeah, a couple of naughty words. Apologies in advance, but I figured it was worth adding to the "let's start a discussion" pile. (Or any other pile you'd care to shovel it onto)
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Unions are like everything... they have pros and cons.
I work for a company under with an unionized contract, I am happy because it gives a lot of security and a lot of social components, but it slows down a lot the personal development and adds a lot of unneeded burocracy to many things.
But for me in this moment of my life... I am happy to have it.
M.D.V.
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Excellent nuanced view. Thank you.
TTFN - Kent
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Speculators of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your blockchains!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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If the union stayed within the bounds of ensuring proper working conditions and equitable pay, it sounds like a good idea. Historically that's not what happens when unions become prominent in an industry. They become yet another layer in the hierarchy between the work needing to be done and those who actually do the work.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Zoom has released a new SDK (software development kit) to help developers build Zoom into their software. Zoom all the things!
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This is not going to end good... 
M.D.V.
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Microsoft is giving the File Explorer inside Windows 10 a visual overhaul with new icons. We knew they were coming, but they're so much more beautiful than I could ever have imagined.
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Is there an option to turn it off?
For recognazability?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I believe they added a 'condensed' option, from an earlier post of Kent's. Now there's another thing to change every time you upgrade!
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I can't believe I ever got anything done with the old ones, now that I've seen the new ones!
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The option to pay using the cryptocurrency now appears on the company’s US website, where it’s available alongside the traditional card payment option. Yours for just six. No, 100. No 12.32. Wait, e...
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Yours for just six. No, 100. No 12.32. Wait, e...
Exactly...
On the other hand, people that bought the coins some years ago and still hold are happy for sure...
I can't understand that bitcoin and co are starting to get through to the real world, seriously.
I can understand that for the "independant" and other staff, but FFS unregulated and so volatile... it can't be serious.
I am starting to think of volunteering to the next mars mission, I am starting to get ashamed of living here... 
M.D.V.
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The expectation is that we'll have five flights over the course of a month. Does it include playing, "Flight of the Valkyries" at high volume?
I love the smell of regolith in the morning.
Love the continuity it includes:
"Following their first powered flight on Earth, the Wright brothers sold small squares of fabric from their craft to get the funds they needed to build improved versions. One of those squares will be carried aloft on Ingenuity when it takes flight on Mars."
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Richard Stallman's return to the Free Software Foundation's board of directors has drawn condemnation from many people in the free software community. An open letter signed by hundreds of people today called for Stallman to be removed again and for the FSF's entire board to resign.
The open letter said:
Richard M. Stallman, frequently known as RMS, has been a dangerous force in the free software community for a long time. He has shown himself to be misogynist, ableist, and transphobic, among other serious accusations of impropriety. These sorts of beliefs have no place in the free software, digital rights, and tech communities. With his recent reinstatement to the Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation, we call for the entire Board of the FSF to step down and for RMS to be removed from all leadership positions.
The signature count is over 1200 people at this point.
FFS FSF!
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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