I used to chat on IRC between 2005 to 2014. We tried to switch to Jabber several times but it was simply too much work (we had elaborate mIRC bots, for example) and it simply wasn't as good - bloaty clients (this was in times when we had 512 MB RAM and single or dual core), chat servers were frequently down while IRC always worked (with the occasional netsplit, but oh well)...
Then we tried Slack but most people didn't come there too much. Today we have a Telegram group and it's so much better UX/UI wise...
If you want just scrambled identifiers and minification but to keep it in separate modules (which makes it somewhat easier for the user to understand your source), then use what Webpack uses under the hood - https://www.npmjs.com/package/terser
But don't have big hopes for either. You're just making it slightly harder to read, but a sufficiently determined programmer will have your source very soon anyways.
Don't trust any of the "source encryption" solutions. It takes 5 minutes to take the unencrypted code out of a running JS VM instance, there's even a JS API for it in Node.js.
Didn't Poland have a privatization post-revolution like Czechia had? Here, we returned most of what was stolen to the ancestors of the original owners.
Privatization in Poland was mostly selling for a fraction of price to western corporations, mostly French, German, American, some to Italians and Brits. In some cases there were local Polish intermediaries with political connections and the transaction made them into the list of richest Poles. In our case the original owners vanished with no descendants, decided for permanent emigration, or the business was originally foreign owned prewar.
It wasn't all fine and dandy here too, but at least buildings and land were mostly returned (corporations were mostly robbed by the communists so there wasn't much to return). Has Polish land not been returned at all to the rightful owners?
Why would you accept a job that pays only US$66k if the value of your work is US$100k? Here (central Europe) it's common practice to count your money in EUR or USD even though we're paid in the local currency - especially if the local currency is not pegged to EUR.
> Why would you accept a job that pays only US$66k if the value of your work is US$100k?
Because in some countries, you can live like a king on $66k and you'll always have contracts. And anyway, no one gets paid based on the "value of their work". That's how services businesses are profitable at all -- the employees generate more value than they're paid.
Yeah but then I want to move to the US or Switzerland or Germany and the US$66k is suddenly a lot less? I have no idea why a skilled senior SWE contractor would go into that kind of deal, the market is much hotter than that, $66k is entry level rate for a contractor even if you work at local companies here.
Our country will only do better if some high skilled workers remain. With the cost of software development NZ can export development and this will improve our economy. That should help everyone here live better lives.
The meaning is that you can learn to do the job without needing the piece of paper and the loss of sanity and time that goes along with it. There isn't a field where it applies more than in programming.
In that case, it also means they think degrees are worthless because they assume everyone cheats to get them.
I'm not denying you can get equivalent, even better, knowledge and experience otherwise. One of the best devs I know has a degree in philosophy. However, some of us know what we go to school for and we make it worthwile.
I think the point is more that having the degree doesn't guarantee anything, and that not having a degree is not a barrier. You still have to do an interview with the candidate, and there will be many self-taught devs who will be much better than the people with degrees.
I think people are wrong about what a degree proves.
Sure, it's no 100% guarantee, but it should at least mean you're familiar with the domain enough to find the answers you need.
You said yourself it entails loss of sanity and time - agreed, completing one shows discipline, character, time management skills and enough sanity that you can afford to lose some. Again, it doesn't mean people without a degree don't have these things (self-education can require some of them even more), but that's one way to demonstrate them.
Finally, there's different degrees, mines are from MIMUW so they do prove quite a lot.
You're not wrong, BUT: I believe that taking biometric photos of kids and storing them in badly secured online databases is a lot worse than teachers seeing the kids with their eye. Digital data remains usable forever, and that means it needs to be protected from theft and abuse forever. But nobody's going to pay for that. So collecting the data is a sure way to doxx those kids in the long term.
There are cameras with facial recognition at the school I went to. I'd much rather supply a semi-fake photo (so the teachers don't bitch about me not having a face there) to Google than step anywhere near that building ever again.
Schools store children data in unsecured databases anyways, that's really nothing new. I trust a cloud service much more than the school IT admin. The cloud service at least has to fix stuff when a problem is uncovered, the school admin will just get you a detention and carry on.
Fortunately this is many years ago for me, but today's reality for my siblings...
Oh wow. My school didn't have any cameras inside the building. And even if there are security cameras on the entrance, they overwrite after 3x24hours. Plus they are not connected to the internet.
It seems we have a very different experience to base our opinions on.
Well, my school is the kind of school where a child recorded a teacher abusing another child and the solution was to ban mobile phones...
And when a child (unsuccessfully) knifed a teacher, all the other teachers went and started telling every parent that their children will have problems if they tell the press that the attacked teacher was abusive, saying things like "this is our internal problem to solve, no need to involve the authorities" (but of course they were more than happy to involve the authorities in the attack, they just didn't want them to know the full story).
The problem is, the fact that there are a few great schools doesn't mean there isn't a ton of really bad schools. You can't base policy on the great schools alone... I'm absolutely convinced that distant/online education is a huge net positive. Canceling it instead of improving it feels so wrong.
> Canceling it instead of improving it feels so wrong.
I don't see anybody calling for edtech to be cancelled, but something less extreme like not sharing data with 200 adtech companies or removing the 7 SDKs that share real time location data from the education version of Minecraft to Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc is probably a good place to start with the improvements.
Yeah but this is resolved with installing a Pi-hole or Ublock into browser; yes, teens can do that and those who care about privacy do it. The rest has already spewed their data all around the internet anyways.
Why care about protecting the kids from Google and Facebook etc when they have Youtube and Facebook running in the other browser tab? Why not protect them from actual physical threats they can't do anything about by themselves instead?
You can't do shit about being forced to go to a school building - don't go and the police will come to force you to go (tested that for you).
> I don't see anybody calling for edtech to be cancelled
But that's the practical outcome - here they said "oh we have these unresolvable problems [...list of bullshit...] with this internet stuff, I guess we need kids back in the prison!". And articles like this are just feeding them more.
The government office responsible for education based on feedback from schools, whose administrators read articles similar to this one (some points from these other well-known articles were recited word by word, basically).
This was already debunked months ago. SpaceX donated a big chunk of cash in shipping costs + a good amount of costly hardware, and they hardened the security of the whole system and countered Russian interference within days. Yeah the state helped too - as it should have. But it's not true at all that SpaceX did not donate.
Post the error message, it's hard to say anything without it. I use Nix On Droid on my phone and Node.js works well on it. I use it with Coder-server and access VSCode via browser.
Then we tried Slack but most people didn't come there too much. Today we have a Telegram group and it's so much better UX/UI wise...