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prof, 5 days ago

So, judging by the wizard frog being clothed. The wizard just told this dude to get naked for what reason? 🤭

prof, 15 days ago

Meme is funny, but that exception used as flow control hurts.

prof, 15 days ago

Another upside of Jetbrains over Adobe is that you can get edu-licenses that allow you to use every software of theirs.

The best deal our university could get from Adobe was 25% off on Photoshop if at least 200 students bought it.

prof, 18 days ago

Since witches are generally agreed upon to be nasty bitches, I’d argue they don’t care.

prof, 19 days ago

If the studios had the resources they could easily become independent. But the corporate side owns the rights to their works, so the now independent studio doesn’t have any incoming revenue.

The average employee won’t work for scraps or nothing. So it’s effectively over if big corpo cuts them off.

prof, 29 days ago

It’s sad that this works. You’d think especially software professionals would be the most vigilant about running unknown code.

prof, 1 month ago

That’s why he’s not worried about stuff running out

prof, 1 month ago

Bottom left panel is completely redundant, but it still makes the joke hit so much harder for me

prof, 1 month ago

The group I referenced had a paid membership. Scale that up and make it digital and you may end up with a gender exclusive social media app.

I get what you mean though, but I feel there’s a bit more nuance than what you imply.

prof, 1 month ago

While I certainly agree with you that discrimination based on sex is unacceptable im most contexts, I believe that gender exclusive spaces, unless they hinder people directly, sometimes are a good thing.

My dad is a mental health professional and founded a weekly ‘only-men’ self help group. He found that some things they talked about there wouldn’t have worked with women involved. That group existed for about 5 years or so and helped quite a few struggling men.

So yeah, unless there’s any maliciousness involved, I’d argue that gender exclusiity is not bad in every context.

prof, 2 months ago

I certainly think so. Social media and all those publicity-hungry news publishers have contributed to fostering an image of men and women that is unrealistic and without nuance. Not just regarding aggressiveness of men or chronically dtf women.

This might be a weird take, but Ted Bundy was only so successful because his victims inherently trusted him. In today’s world I believe he would have a lot more trouble to find a woman that assumes he has good intentions.

prof, 2 months ago

He cs_assaulted the counter

prof, 2 months ago

Die Christen haben in ihrer Bibel wohl bei Nächstenliebe irgendeinen Typo ala “Nächstenhiebe”.

prof, 3 months ago

In an upcoming post: “Why can’t anyone just make a button that automatically hacks facebook???!!!”

It’s really interesting how differently you see technology as a professional compared to “normies”. So much stuff is easily solved by following instructions or reading error messages.

prof, 3 months ago

Well done, here’s your price: 🏅

You may redeem it for a star on a GitHub repo of your choice.

It all gets put into the main method though in this version 😄

prof, 4 months ago

Why anyone would spend 1500 dollars and 300 hours on a parody is beyond me but it’s impressive work nonetheless for a solo dev.

The gameplay was fun to watch, but mostly just because the characters steps sounded like their shoes were sticky after they stepped into some spilled cola or zombie guts or whatever.

prof, 4 months ago

Recently switched jobs from maintaining a 15 year old Windows Forms .NET Framework legacy codebase.

At the new job we stick to Clean Architecture, use unit and integration tests, have a code generation tool, actually make nice use of generics and use dependency injection. Also agile processes, automatic build tools, whatever. The difference is night and day and I’m so glad my ex boss fired me because I told him he’s an asshole and his codebase is shit.

prof, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Ha! I’m partially looking at this issue in my bachelor’s thesis.

It’s not at all necessary to embed a browser, but it’s really easy to transfer your web app to a “near native” experience with stuff like electron, ionic, cordova, react native or whatever other web stuff is out there. The issue is mostly that native APIs are complicated and relying on web views or just providing your own “browser” is a relatively easy approach.

Stuff like Flutter, Xamarin or .NET MAUI compile depending on the platform to native or are interpreted by a runtime. There’s a study I use that compares Flutter to React Native, native Java and Ionic on Android and finds that unsurprisingly the native implementation is best, but is closely followed by Flutter (with a few hiccups), with the remainder being significantly slower.

The thing is. I don’t think these compiled frameworks lag behind in any way. But when you have a dev team, that’s competent in web development, you won’t make them learn C#, Xaml, Dart or C++, just to get native API access - you’ll just let a framework handle that for you because it’s cheaper and easier.

Edit: To add some further reading. This paper and this one explore the different approaches out there and suggest which one might be “the best”. I don’t feel like they’re good papers, but there’s almost no other write up of cross-platform dev approaches out there.

Edit2: I also believe that the approach “we are web devs that want access to native APIs” may be turned around in the future, since Flutter and now also .NET offer ways to deploy cross-platforn apps as web apps. I’ll get back to writing the thesis now and stop editing.

prof, 9 months ago

Eh, they can’t be honest about wanting you to use the app to be able to collect your data better.