Yup. But I'm tired of talking and trying to make the world "a better place". I stopped worrying and trying for just long enough to ask "why the fuck?".
TV (and its internet based replacements) have turned from the focus of attention to something you keep running in the background. I don't really watch anything, most of the time it just runs in a spare monitor as some sort of entertainment for the couple brain cells that are not occupied doing something more worthwhile. Given that most series and shows are only interesting about 5-10 minutes of their 40 minute run, with the rest being useless filler to pass the time between the ads, it's good enough to get the plot.
Don't you think you could make a lot more money by saying the opposite? I mean, who do you think offers the fatter paychecks, the government (you know, the one that got its environment budget de facto axed) or multinational oil and gas corporations trying to avoid legislation that would cost them a LOT more than any climate scientist claiming that anything they do is a-ok with the environment?
This is actually a language problem in a roundabout way.
I've been wondering who on earth thought that javascript, of all the available languages on the planet, would be a good choice for a server language. Then it hit me: Nobody thought it would be a good language, but we have a shitload of unemployed frontend developers that have zero experience with anything BUT javascript. And the same cheap bastard companies that went and hired the so-so skilled, self-taught frontend devs during the high times of the dot.com boom now hire exactly the same people for backend development.
These people have been bullshitted the first time when everyone was doing stuff "on the internet" and got rich (well... kinda...) off it that this is the next big thing, now they get bullshitted into believing that they get rich developing backend stuff. In the end, in both cases what you're dealing with is cheap companies trying to cash in by jumping the bandwagon of whatever is the hot cake in IT with the cheapest personnel they can get.
Of course you can't land a nice consulting job in such an environment. These people that hire the same code monkeys they hired before for frontend won't hire you for consulting for the same reason: They want cheap, not good.
It still works quite fine with other Open Source projects, and you'll notice that the key OSS-products have very active and fairly well doing developers, just not in node.js.
The problem is people making packages that have no business doing so. Half of them are sorta-kinda working with glaring security holes that make even newbie programmers cringe.
The main problem with node starts way earlier. First, 100 packages doing the same. Well, not really. Just kinda. Say you need a package that deals with a certain database. You'll find 5. And no matter which one you eventually choose randomly (because asking google is like asking a bunch of/. users which Linux distri to get, you'll get 5 answers telling you the merits of 6 different solutions), it will be the one that you eventually realize doesn't have that one crucial feature you actually needed, won't play nice with whatever other middleware you have to use or has simply not been updated for 2 years because whoever wrote it lost interest.
Which leads to the next thing: Abandoned packages. Most of those solutions depend on a single maintainer. And his whims. When he doesn't feel like maintaining it anymore, poof. Try to maintain that code now that some crucial part of it simply isn't updated anymore, the technology it communicated with did move on and becomes incompatible and you're SOL.
I mean, I get it, it's a toy for people who learned web design, can't be assed to learn a real language and also want to do shit with servers. Ok. But... seriously, python is not THAT hard...
For very variable definitions of "better". Do they work longer? Sure. Do they work harder? Quite so.
Both means jack shit. What I care about is "do they produce better products". Which they ain't.
In other words, I prefer a worker that works for 3 hours and slacks off for 3 before going home early and gets the job done to one that slaves away for 16 hours and THEN I have to put the other worker down for his 3 hours tomorrow to fix that rubbish.
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It was even a million times higher than today back during the late heavy bombardment.
You know what both eras have in common?
No humans.
Yup. But I'm tired of talking and trying to make the world "a better place". I stopped worrying and trying for just long enough to ask "why the fuck?".
I have no kids.
I have about 30 years to live.
Screw the planet and humanity.
TV (and its internet based replacements) have turned from the focus of attention to something you keep running in the background. I don't really watch anything, most of the time it just runs in a spare monitor as some sort of entertainment for the couple brain cells that are not occupied doing something more worthwhile. Given that most series and shows are only interesting about 5-10 minutes of their 40 minute run, with the rest being useless filler to pass the time between the ads, it's good enough to get the plot.
People prefer free content, even if it's crap?
TV should have been a hint.
So ... you want the US to become like Europe?
The law of entropy is real and not negotiable, you know that, right?
As a side note, is there still room on the spare planet you apparently have available?
Don't you think you could make a lot more money by saying the opposite? I mean, who do you think offers the fatter paychecks, the government (you know, the one that got its environment budget de facto axed) or multinational oil and gas corporations trying to avoid legislation that would cost them a LOT more than any climate scientist claiming that anything they do is a-ok with the environment?
Sounds more like a solution desperately looking for a problem that hasn't already been solved in a better way.
I'm in IT security, I have to deal with it...
This is actually a language problem in a roundabout way.
I've been wondering who on earth thought that javascript, of all the available languages on the planet, would be a good choice for a server language. Then it hit me: Nobody thought it would be a good language, but we have a shitload of unemployed frontend developers that have zero experience with anything BUT javascript. And the same cheap bastard companies that went and hired the so-so skilled, self-taught frontend devs during the high times of the dot.com boom now hire exactly the same people for backend development.
These people have been bullshitted the first time when everyone was doing stuff "on the internet" and got rich (well... kinda...) off it that this is the next big thing, now they get bullshitted into believing that they get rich developing backend stuff. In the end, in both cases what you're dealing with is cheap companies trying to cash in by jumping the bandwagon of whatever is the hot cake in IT with the cheapest personnel they can get.
Of course you can't land a nice consulting job in such an environment. These people that hire the same code monkeys they hired before for frontend won't hire you for consulting for the same reason: They want cheap, not good.
It still works quite fine with other Open Source projects, and you'll notice that the key OSS-products have very active and fairly well doing developers, just not in node.js.
The problem is people making packages that have no business doing so. Half of them are sorta-kinda working with glaring security holes that make even newbie programmers cringe.
The main problem with node starts way earlier. First, 100 packages doing the same. Well, not really. Just kinda. Say you need a package that deals with a certain database. You'll find 5. And no matter which one you eventually choose randomly (because asking google is like asking a bunch of /. users which Linux distri to get, you'll get 5 answers telling you the merits of 6 different solutions), it will be the one that you eventually realize doesn't have that one crucial feature you actually needed, won't play nice with whatever other middleware you have to use or has simply not been updated for 2 years because whoever wrote it lost interest.
Which leads to the next thing: Abandoned packages. Most of those solutions depend on a single maintainer. And his whims. When he doesn't feel like maintaining it anymore, poof. Try to maintain that code now that some crucial part of it simply isn't updated anymore, the technology it communicated with did move on and becomes incompatible and you're SOL.
I mean, I get it, it's a toy for people who learned web design, can't be assed to learn a real language and also want to do shit with servers. Ok. But ... seriously, python is not THAT hard...
Javascript as a server language.
If you said that 10 years ago, people would've looked you like you just said that the president ... bad example.
Oh this is gold! Any chance to publish that audio log?
Not today. Please come back tomorrow, we might have it fixed by then.
For very variable definitions of "better". Do they work longer? Sure. Do they work harder? Quite so.
Both means jack shit. What I care about is "do they produce better products". Which they ain't.
In other words, I prefer a worker that works for 3 hours and slacks off for 3 before going home early and gets the job done to one that slaves away for 16 hours and THEN I have to put the other worker down for his 3 hours tomorrow to fix that rubbish.
I need results. Not hours.
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I think we found the person who's responsible for Lemonparty...
Or a three edged sword.
Yeah, just think of all those fat ass heroin junkies.
You're working 13/14 hours a day and are constantly sleep deprived?
We have very different definitions of "successful".
I'm mostly the "screw you, I got mine" type, now aging and noticing that hey, I should leave a legacy that doesn't make people spit on my grave.
Think Bill Gates, just not THAT rich.
So the solution is to kill them indirectly by not preventing their death?
At least you don't gun them down in the streets for sports, I guess.
Don't delude yourself. The only ones that could change the systems are also the ones that benefit from it not being changed.
People could (and did) move freely from NASA to private companies without any gag contracts. Try to find me something like that in the private sector.