Oh! Thanks for reminding me that :)

The thing is, until he said it was a made-up story, I thought it was real. This shows that things like that started to become the real norm.

I also don't think the author is in a victim mentality, it is more like a reminder to other developers that they can do so much better.

Just because the story is believable doesn’t mean that the people who are in the story are without responsibility or fault.

When you get into a lease agreement you should know how to pay going into it. If your landlord doesn’t take a form of payment you can handle you don’t sign the lease in the first place. That’s your life responsibility as a functional adult. Paying rent every month isn’t a surprise. Being low on funds isn’t an excuse and being low on funds isn’t the issue at hand.

Exactly. I use comments either when some inherent complexity is at play or when I've written seemingly weird code and need to make it easier for myself and others to understand why it's hacky.

I generally try to avoid the latter case, but sometimes, especially when I can't afford to refactor, I just do it, and in such cases having comments is just better than having nothing.

I remember playing this when I was a child. Was one of the games I really liked. Good to see it's still alive.

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I don't feel qualified enough to judge the quality of the design itself.

However, presenting your ideas in the form of a chat log, just like some philosophy books that explain their point by using dialogues is a creative approach.

I guess this would also work well when presenting written interviews. :)

> However, presenting your ideas in the form of a chat log, just like some philosophy books that explain their point by using dialogues is a creative approach.

It’s just an FAQ with different styling. “Conversational” FAQs aren’t rare, though they usually tend to be humorous too.

Just curious. What kind of background would you use instead?

some sort of pattern which can be considered in one of those new minimalist designs like from teenage engineering.

I don't know but I also couldn't read the whole thing because dark reader messed up the colors so I would probably have such website work well with dark reader

That's a great way to put it!

I’ve gradually started using more UX-friendly alternatives to the tools I've used for so long, and I don’t think the time spent learning those lower-level tools was wasted at all.

If I ever switch to a MacBook (since they're easy to carry around and have good battery life), I’d probably feel the same way as you do. But I don't see that happening shortly since I don't see an immediate need or benefit of it.

Exactly! You suffer regardless of what you choose, but how you suffer and what for differs.

You suffer for a corporation when you use Windows, and they get richer and greedier.

When you use Linux, your suffering might push you to break and waste a weekend fixing an upstream bug, from which the entire world benefits for free. When you use Linux, your suffering builds positive karma, and next life you get to reincarnate as a cat, released from the hell that is software engineering.

I feel the same way about Windows. But that's only because I've already paid the initial cost of adapting to a Linux environment. Ascetic actions can increase your overall comfort as you get better at them.

Think about it from a 5-year-old person's perspective, or an average computer user. Which one do you think is more comfortable to use, Windows, or Linux?