Beautiful. Well done

Yup, I remember that interview. It was about pirates providing translations for the pirated games, that weren’t included by their creators.

Fair pricing is also part of that. Like when Netflix first came out, even with its pretty restricted catalogue, it was a good deal at the time.

zero value

Rofl yeah right, like your face didn’t light up the first time you heard the Halo theme.

Yeah that’s a good way to put it. It’s like so close to the thing you were dreading, that it’s a sort of sick relief when it actually happens.

It’s like…

Ah reminds me of the time (back in the LAMP days) when I tried to apply this complicated equation that sales had come up with to our inventory database. This was one of those “just have the junior run it at midnight” type of shops. Anyway, I made a mistake and ended up exactly halving all inventory prices on production. See OP’s picture for my face.

In retrospect, I’m thankful for that memory.

I also hate math, and am jealous of people who are good at it. I get anxiety just doing simple multiplications, and have to look everything up. That said, I’m a senior platform developer, and earn more than anyone else in my family, so like… math helps a lot, but you don’t neeed it to be a real dev. Certainly not to be a hobbyist/hacker, like yourself.

How much time have you spent doing it? What part didn’t you understand? If it’s the bit shifting stuff, don’t worry about it - hardly anyone actually knows how that works unless they look it up.

Yoink.

Actually I’ve probably been all of these at various times in my career.

I think OP meant moving a code block up or down in a file, not left or right

Disney especially has all but totally captured their target demographics, and not many working parents are likely to put the time into setting up a Plex and torrenting movies for their kid(s). Sadly, it’s easier to shell over an unreasonably large fee, and let their kids have at it.

It’s families. Dual income with several kids, yeah the fees sting, but when your cashflow is high and your savings nil, $200 a year doesn’t sound crazy. It’s not smart, and it’s not fair, but if you know any parents of young children you can see how they could make that decision.

My partner drives our neighbour’s kids around sometimes, so we rack up seats on family streaming accounts that way.

Never had Disnkey, so this is more about Netflix. Back at the beginning, I didn’t mind paying a fair price for a service that made discovery and streaming easy and convenient. Plus subscriptions going to fund more interesting content? Amazing! Yeah, it’s a bit of platform capitalism, but the fees were reasonable and they spread the wealth in a way I agreed with.

I’m still not against a service that keeps its fees reasonable for what it’s providing.

In the words of the next generation, 💀

I can’t even imagine what earning double a living wage would have done to my psyche in my twenties. I’m middle aged and just now finding stability - and let me tell you, it wasn’t because I kept working hard. If I’d just kept working hard, I’d still be poor.

I like the full slug, but I appreciate your short link

You sound like an awesome co-worker. I love the way this is stated, and I’m 💯 in alignment

Also some parts of code are just going to smell, because of deadlines, other trade offs. For those it helps to have a comment to really highlight that bit of weirdness - the what and the why. If it is weird it should really “pop out” when you’re reading it.

When the the documentation is epic, but no one remembers to add why this repo even exists.

I owe my abuse of xargs to Mr. Robot! I saw it on the show, and now I use it everywhere

Be fired || deal with customers

😰

rm -rf $STEAM_ROOT/ takes me wayyy back. I remember hearing about that one. It was part of a script that shipped with a Stream installer?

Whatever it was, the bug was that if the env var in that line wasn’t defined, it would just rm the actual root. Hilarious if doesn’t happen to you!

It’s like I’m there