CameronDev
@CameronDev@programming.dev
- Comment on Spot on 4 days ago:
The target of this comic is the trump administration. From their point of view, it hasn’t been yet desecrated, and its something they are proud of, so this Belgium lad is actively disrespecting them.
- Comment on Why are some Linux community so toxic? 1 week ago:
Whether you engage or not, its a constant noise that has to be dealt with.
- Comment on Why are some Linux community so toxic? 1 week ago:
If the newbies don’t stick around to contribute back, then that doesn’t work well. The trans community (at least from an outsiders perspective) seem a lot more close-knit, so it probably works better?
For technical communities, it doesn’t seem like the communal support exists to the same degree. Newbies come in, get their answer and leave. :(
- Comment on Why are some Linux community so toxic? 1 week ago:
Imagine every day I ask you what the color of the sky is. There are a bunch of forum threads that tell you the sky color, there is a wiki with sky color information, and the search can give you the sky colour.
That is what these communities often deal with, it grinds you down and makes you have a short fuse.
- Comment on Interesting 2 weeks ago:
The neighbours grow lamps.
- Comment on A proprietary Linux distro 2 weeks ago:
Of course, they could just choose to be in violation of the license if nobody sues them.
One has to wonder if that is exactly what has happened previously to cause the 2 name changes.
- Comment on A proprietary Linux distro 2 weeks ago:
Only for the components that are GPL. If its based on Ubuntu, then all the Ubuntu packages are compliant.
Their desktop UI may not be GPL though, so they wouldn’t be obligated to share the code. As long as they were disciplined and didn’t statically link a GPL lib, they are in the clear.
- Comment on Google reCaptcha intentionally failed without telling me, how is this allowed?? 2 weeks ago:
They are measuring a lot more than just your pattern recognition. Things like timing of clicks, mouse movements and a lot more.
I have gotten stuck on them a few times, but a refresh usually fixes it, it seems like a bug more than anything.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
If youre here to run advertising, youre gonna have a bad time.
- Comment on Can you hide wired conversations behind a language barrier? 2 weeks ago:
Any org with wiretap capabilities can affort translators. If you used an esoteric language, it might take longer, but likely won’t change the outcome.
Also, if no one knows what you said, you can’t prove what you didn’t say either. So a less ethical organisation could simply claim that you gave a kill order, when it was actually a takeout order. You cant defend against it without also breaking the code.
- Comment on Think before speak 2 weeks ago:
Brazilians are living in sin. I will never accept their existence.
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 3 weeks ago:
I can get behind that. Even more frequently perhaps. Its insane that for a task as dangerous as driving, once you pass at 18, you don’t get re-tested until you kill someone…
I have to do anti-sexual harassment training every year for work, communication/math/logic refreshers once a year would actually be a lot more beneficial.
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 3 weeks ago:
I am not a good sentencer :(
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 3 weeks ago:
Your last paragragh describes a leader…
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 3 weeks ago:
Agreed, those arent high level manager decisions, but they aren’t intern decisions either. They’ll be made by a mid level manager or team lead.
The higher up the chain, the less technical and more general the decisions get, but they do still need to have some level of technical understanding, or the direction they point you in could be completely detached from reality.
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 3 weeks ago:
The direction a company should go in is a technical decision. It has to come from a leader of some kind, and if that leader is non technical or disconnected from the employees, that’s how you get poor decisions.
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 3 weeks ago:
All your examples involve teams, and teams don’t typically happen without some form of leadership from someone. An expert without leadership skills will be far less effective at building a team around them than someone with the expertise and the leadership skills.
The expert your describing in your last paragragh IS a leader. If they aren’t being compensated as such, thats just them being exploited, and they need to advocate for more appropriate compensation.
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 3 weeks ago:
At the end of the day, a single person can only do so much work. All the experience in the world doesn’t change that there is only 24hrs in a day.
A good leader can enable a team of people to work together achieving more than the sum of their individual contributions.
Leaders are force multiplier, and good ones should be compensated as such.
Sadly, we also over compensate the shitty leaders far too often as well :/
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 3 weeks ago:
Ideally you want a balance of both, pure people skills ends with poor technical decisions, pure technical ends with inability to get the other employees on board.
- Comment on In Hollywood why do all actors and such have fake names besides their own? How do they come up with them? If I went to hollywood could i make up something like Don Dickle Pickle Wiggler? 5 weeks ago:
My apologies, I didn’t mean to imply anything about you personally, only that your Hollywood name would make some funny headlines.
- Comment on Is it ideal to renounce citizenship if moving abroad permanently? 5 weeks ago:
Australians abroad can vote by mail or at their nearest consulate. No need to renounce your citizenship.
- Comment on I'd like to change my last name and want suggestions 1 month ago:
If you were in the EU, right to be forgotten laws would help, but I guess you are not.
But that is definitely a good reason to name change, it would be a problem for job interviews :/
- Comment on I'd like to change my last name and want suggestions 1 month ago:
Wouldn’t a “zany” last name become just as identifiable as your current unique name?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Could just call them bins and no one would care…
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Swapping github (MS) for bitbucket (Atlassian) is a completely sideways move. Atlassian will fuck you just as hard as MS will.
- Comment on Washington man arrested for allegedly throwing rock at seal in Maui 1 month ago:
“Your climate is about to get changed”
- Comment on Washington man arrested for allegedly throwing rock at seal in Maui 1 month ago:
“Ice him”
“Decrease his carbon footprint to zero”
I would watch this show.
- Comment on which way? 1 month ago:
Nsfw pls, dat ass…
- Comment on brb 2 months ago:
They have 60 partners to please
- Comment on How do I unrot my brain from AI, and is improv a good enough way to fix an AI-rotted brain? 2 months ago:
Looks us, doing self care :D