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I don’t think it was ever born to have died. I think they grossly overestimated how much this tech would improve


there must be a small number of players that torrented it then bought it after they played and things like that



I’m doing some scraping on the playstore, there is few stuff that has no ads nor in app purchases

I posted a few here on https://lemmy.fbmac.net/c/free_android_games





try ordering by new, the active ordering will show old threads if people are still commenting on them

and that’s a good thing, on reddit you kind of can’t keep a conversation as the threads die too fast


this could probably run all lemmy instances in a little corner of its ram


One anecdote to illustrate the point: On my last job, I was initially directly chosen by upper management that was my former boss in another company. The HR interviewer blocked me anyway, the higher ups hired me as a contractor for a year, and only them they hired me directly


[rambling] Some programming languages are better when you lack social skills
This is just an anedoctal observation, don't generalize based on just this. It's something I've been thinking for a while. I've been on development since the end of the 90s. I noticed that in the last positions, I did much more interviews for higher level languages then for C and C++, but got jobs on the fewer interviews that were looking for C and C++. There's many other variables, I think more than half the ones I landed I had strong referrals from people that already worked with me. The referrals were the most important thing to bypass being poor at interviewing, but with C++ it is a smaller world around here, and there is less people to compete with the referrals themselves. There isn't as many people that you reference for those. I'm wondering what other modern languages I should build experience on to future proof myself a little better. I like Rust, I'm using it in some smaller things. I didn't see much of it out of the blockchain market until I noticed Lemmy. There is Golang love the idea that they focus on fast build times. At my current job I have projects that take 1h to 4h to compile on C++, if it was golang it would be so much better. The stackoverflow survey says that Clojure is the most well paid programming language. Chances are it got it's status for both being niche and having positions available for it, that is a good signal that they could hire someone that is bad at interviewing (probably not with the salary they said on the stackoverflow survey). I suspect Closure isn't easy to move into. Being niche and the language that pays better, something is keeping people away from it, and I don't know what it is yet.
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Now you mention it, maybe people with a better interview/offer rate are also doing a better job on not wasting time with positions they aren’t a great fit? I get interested when they ask me about things I used only a little before, so I end doing a lof of these

I suspect that some interviews are just to say they interviewed X people before they chose someone


I already live in a low cost country, so moving to a cheaper place wouldn’t work

Some professional help is probably a good idea. My CV is probably not a big part of the problem, it’s getting me those interviews, maybe it gets me interviews for the wrong jobs. As I’m never sure what I want to do, I could make it look like I am all about stack X, and in the next morning I feel like I want to do some Y, and I get a call from someone that wants something to be done on K, on which I only had experience in a 3 months project and left some mention of it there.


I do that, and it saves me a lot of time with things ending on the screening call. I’m tempted to write all this stuff in my resume / linkedin so I don’t even waste time with the screening. It’s easier now I’m already employed, it will probably be harder when I really need another job


20+ years of xp, interviews are still hard, still dunno what to do with carrear
I think my interview/offer ratio is somewhere below 1%. One factor that you probably guessed is I have very low social skills, well documented in my psychological evaluation that I did to diagnose my ADHD. I started learning programming about as a preschool kid, in the 8 bits era, then did some Visual Basic desktop apps, C, .NET, embedded C payment devices, vehicle plate recognition systems, backend of payment systems, android programming, etc. Changing that much was probably a bad thing, as a senior any position I attempt I'll be competing with people that is focused on the same stack for years. All the best positions ask for fluent english and my pronunciation is not that good, and I'm 44 years old now. There is no chance I'll move up to management because of said social skills.
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I loved this analogy, it works for old languages as old movies, some characteristics as movie genres and to explain there is not just one and only right language, and that people would have different preferences.


I’m asking mostly out of curiosity, but I had a use case that I would like to completely avoid a build step. At work we have a very old web interface, that when I attempt to sell the idea of any major improvement the answer is “this is end of life, we are rewriting it”. But the rewrite will take a long time, and it is easier to make gradual improvements without introducing new tooling. This one is from the 90s, there the JS is in a folder and is shipped as is.


Thanks, I found this book and a lot of papers about it on this site: http://algorithmicbotany.org/


I did some experimenting on that direction, but stopped at this weird thing. The way I’m doing it would be too slow with more than one tree

https://random.fbmac.net/page/4

source: https://github.com/machado2/random-things


It is recursively changing the angle at random and shrinking the size. I dunno if that would count as a L-system, the wikipedia article for L-system has too much math that I don’t understand


I am a fellow organic food ingesting, carbon based human, using my meat based appendices to slowly communicate with other carbon based humans on the public network. While I type this my meat based appendices are getting very tired, because I totally had to use mechanical movements to close electrical circuits in a very inneficient way to send signals to a computer


Source is at https://github.com/machado2/trees
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There is a bot posting ai generated stuff on my server, but this is my normal account, to post normal human things


About the third point, the performance of your JavaScript code can be worse if it’s broken down into several small files rather than a single, bundled file. When a browser encounters a script tag linking to an external JavaScript file, it makes an HTTP request to fetch that file. This process occurs for each separate file. Each HTTP request involves time for network latency, server processing, and data transfer.

I’m usually preferring typescript too, but this point got me curious. I’m guessing it wasn’t an honest point, almost everywhere I look people are still using a build step, and I didn’t notice any move in a different direction


Are we ready for javascript without a build step on the front end in 2023?
On the current typescript / anti-typescript internet drama I saw someone mention javascript without a build step. Do you think we're already there? Last time I attempted it: * there were too many libraries I couldn't import * JSX (using babel) had a warning saying you shouldn't do it in the browser for production * there was some advice against not using a bundler, because several requests for different .js files is slower and bigger than a bundled package
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Whenever I tested something that sounds great yet it is slow to get adoption I end learning a reason why it it’s not growing. It’s good to learn what the reason is before you spend a lot of time on it


I never feel sure what I want to use, and I get tempted to stop what I’m doing to do something in another stack, because I am most interested in the tech than my own toy project


What programming languages aren’t too criticized here?
It feels like anything is mowed down on the internet. I've been a dev for a long time too, and I never feel sure when I chose a stack for a new toy project (in my day job I rarely get to chose, so that's a non issue there)
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good article, but the C in this comparison is being called from Ruby inside a loop, it’s not as shocking as the title looks