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Cake day: August 8th, 2023

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  • The trouble with our left is that they are incredibly ineffective and increasingly have no idea how to promote their ideas to the population. We’re lucky to have a fairly strong socialist political heritage to live off of but it’s dwindling quickly and the current left has not been able in the least to gain new political capital.

    In the last elections in my country the key issue was considered to be living wages, in light of the extreme inflation as a result of the Ukraine war. This is supposed to be the left’s wheelhouse. The previous center-right government made a huge mess of things, ended their run with a few major scandals right before the election. This should have been slam dunk for the left.

    But they made no concrete statements about anything, presented no clear party program, just some generic polite and well-meaning “we should take care of everyone and oh yes racism is bad” They got absolutely hammered by a coalition of center-right and extreme-right.




  • Or business decides all specs and design decisions that were made last quarter were actually garbage and yes we do want to be able to manually override every step of the carefully designed state machine. We’d like to be able to manually change all calculated sales data, but also the data needs to remain in a consistent state at all times. Oh and while you’re there, we decided the commission calculations will use a different system from now on. We expect it to be online by the end of the week, thanks.







  • Maybe in enterprises settings what you say makes sense, but for the small to medium startups I usually work for, RoR is great. It’s super easy to prototype and switch lanes. If I had to do what I do in Java I’d go insane. As for Delphi…

    The RoR “magic” being obtuse is extremely exaggerated most of the time and more meme than reality. If you think PHP is better, by which I guess you mean Laravel, how on earth is that less “magical”? React? Next? I’ll take Ruby any day.