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abarwick | 2 years ago | on: When did people stop being drunk all the time?

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There's plenty of people inbetween the extremes. I don't want the bloat but I'm also busy (tired) and don't want to spend a weekend getting my dev env setup. These pre-made environments are great to dip my toes in the water; I get the speed of vim with some of the "batteries included" ergonomics of actual IDEs.

abarwick | 2 years ago | on: I made nodb, a RESTFful API to store and fetch JSON

I find monospaced font in documentation nearly unreadable for some reason.

abarwick | 3 years ago | on: Do you ever feel like you've had enough of working in the IT industry?

It sounds like you were fortunate to have your passion and career be one and the same for 2 decades. Many people do not have this blessing, so ask yourself: what does everyone else do in this case? Personally, I think trying to find purpose/meaning/happiness in your life is the point of life.

This is to say, you'll probably need to hunt for hobbies and find something that gives you meaning, now that the IT-shine is gone.

abarwick | 3 years ago | on: Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade

Exactly. It sounds faux-romantic to wane about democracy and the power of voting, but when the systems that support this system have been perverted over the course of decades, it becomes a horror story. Democracy as it has been thought of is dead (in the U.S.).

abarwick | 3 years ago | on: Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics

Simply training government workers to use open source tools would shut down governments for weeks.

abarwick | 3 years ago | on: Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics

I obviously can’t speak for all, even most, but back in my consulting days I can say the many US federal and state agencies use Azure AD and a litany of AWS services that are core to vital work streams. Enough that having to shut them down would neuter the department.

abarwick | 3 years ago | on: Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics

This is just naive. Government offices/agencies are so tightly coupled with packages like office 365 that forcefully separating them would require home built solutions which would always be terrible, less secure, and more expensive to the tax payer. There’s a lot of good these products can provide, granted they are properly audited and have high security requirements.

abarwick | 3 years ago | on: Rust is hard, yes, but does it matter?

To use? No, most modern languages can abstract to a high level. But senior JS developers that don't understand even basic memory management are not going to have a good enough handle on what's going on under the hood to be helpful. I think is more to do with them not being remotely curious, which is a prerequisite to good engineering.

abarwick | 5 years ago | on: Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack

If he had gotten into twitter to make some funny status's then sure, community service makes sense. But this kid scammed a lot of money from a lot of people, severe criminal charges are appropriate.