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@nomadtechie @infil00p @badlogicgames @Microsoft @github @npmjs In EU you can't legally cut the salary without changing the job description or fire the employee. Legally it's quite imposible.. where is this happening? USA or? Salary cuts are quite hard to do legally.. you must justify the cut..

@infil00p @badlogicgames @Microsoft @github @npmjs It is - however this is a situation where people are already doing the job. They have a salary. They have fixed expenses. And they're being asked to do the same job for half the salary and more scrutiny because you're now owned by Microsoft.. is not only unfair..it's inhumane.

Hey so if @microsoft @github bought your company (@npmjs ), and then offered you a 50% reduction in your base salary to do the same job, what would you do? Yes. This an actual real life scenerio unfortunately. 😐

@codingjose @dankim Maybe Google should not allow users to review apps if the install time is less than x days.. Also should automatically remove all 1 star rating if detects the user have installed the app after x days. If it's that bad why do you still keep it?

@arpytoth @dankim Tóth, even with a ban users will be able to get the app from Google Play without any effort and bite you back with 1 star times n if they want. Encouraging users to hate you and your products, and make it personal does not seem the way to go.

@codingjose @dankim I don't encourage hate, I give away many apps for free, all of them are above 4 ⭐️. But if somebody is rude or gives me 1 ⭐️ for no reason he shouldn't use my app. I've got many personal rude reviews and right now I can't defend myself and those dudes are still using my apps

@dankim I know a lot about docker .. and i still hate it 🤣🤣

@dhh lovely :))

“Not trying to be rude, but you are too smart, thoughtful and introspective to be an Atheist”, and then he continued on a four paragraph refutation of evolution. I get the best emails 😂

A really underestimated statement :)

@rmondello What's wrong with you.. grow up..

What the hell is wrong with men?

@JuliettePretot Glad you told us what seniors developers should understand.. i feel enlightenment:)

Senior JavaScript developers should understand: * Testing & deployment best practices * Communicating constraints to stakeholders * Mentoring juniors * Cultivating a welcoming team culture

@relizarov Funny.. i thought i was special.. i also did a window manager in Pascal and ASN.

What kind of grandiose programming projects you've started when you were just a child learning to code? Me: rule-based AI, window manager in assembly, operating system for 80386, text processing programming language, likely more (cannot remember all of them now)

@Cor3ntin Maybe a lot of new C++ features are not that useful in practice, the developers ca live, just fine, without them and there is a big gap between the real world needs and what C++ is evolving into.. And maybe there is a lot of elitist crap regarding the newest features..

@dankim Challenge accepted :))

@hhariri @Bearskij Sorry but when someone leaves a public 1 star review with ridiculous expectations, because he doesn't want to pay for a product and consider he deserve it for free, I think it's OK not to crop the name and also I think it's not about poverty, it's about cheapness and rudeness.

@Bearskij @arpytoth But that is not the case. The app is quite up front.

Ah yes. Let's give one star rating because we don't want to pay for something and feel we're entitled to free. I wonder, do you also give one star ratings to restaurants cause you had to pay?

@hhariri I also use it for recording along with other microphones from the IRig family. Really good stuff for quickly record musical ideas:)

Mini travel amp. Surprisingly sounds ok.

@CodeWisdom It means I was really productive today. I just removed half of the code from my apps (arpytoth.com/projects) just by moving the common code in a library :))

"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson

@rohan10 @dhh Indeed, but this is a different kind of rewrite. This is a management friendly rewrite and usually they don't really pay for it. As developers we will need to rewrite parts of the application to be able to implement new features and sadly some developers will work extra hours.

Good long-read contrasting what happened to FogBugz, which stuck to its "rewrites are the worst thing ever" ideology, and Basecamp/FreshBooks, which both rewrote and still prosper today. @herbcaudill/lessons-from-6-software-rewrite-stories-635e4c8f7c22" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@herbcaudill/l…

@hhariri First of all, do I really need that library? How much it cost to write a custom implementation for my app? Second: License and cost in case it's not free. Third: what other projects uses it, community, maturity.

When adopting a library, what are the key things you look at when making a decision?

@slicknet In my case it was in third party libraries. I had such a bad experience with many of them that I could honestly say that most of the time is way cheaper to reinvent the wheel than to use some sad library.

I don’t know about you, but the bugs I’ve spent the most time debugging in my career were most often caused by typos.