I’ve always seen it as Kevin

It’s all broken, just CPC is more broken than the rest

General strikes might help, but when was the last time one of those got serious traction.

As for the other things, those are certainly things you can do, but I’m not seeing how doing them would motivate an otherwise unmotivated MP. Especially conservative MPs.

Like what? What are some of the ways that we can force an MP to do the right thing if they don’t want to?

Our MPs don’t wanna for the same reason JT doesn’t wanna. They don’t wanna fuck with the system that put them in power.

Partisan politics has made it so that career politicians represent the party to the constituents, rather than having politicians who represent their constituents to the government.

NGL I was kinda hoping that JT would see the polls and actually finally get rid of FPTP as a big middle finger to PP (or in a last act of desperation), but we’re not gonna be that lucky

O’Leary came with the bagpipes, some music for to play

I doubted trump would win. Then he did.
PP is following the trump playbook. I’m no longer as confident about the rationality of voters.

I kind of agree.
But he still seems more viable than PP. Neither is viable PP.

JT seems like the lesser of evils.
I wanna vote out JT so I can show the liberals that they can’t just lie to us and do whatever they want.
But I also want to keep PP out of power so I can show the PCs that we won’t accept trumpian politicians who cultivate a cult of personality with empty platforms or anti-social policies.

The conservatives don’t actually have a platform, they just have a handful of slogans. And they have a leader who is proudly ignorant, who would rather have the ability to sling accusations than learn about the subject.

I don’t want to vote for JT, but there aren’t really any other options that don’t result in decimating public services so that PP can let his private sector friends loot the remains. Presumably, because again he has such a vacuous platform, you just have to go by the handful of slogans he has shouted out at rallies.

IMO I think that’s more a reflection of business decisions rather than innate programmer skill.

Programmers used to do that because they had to do that, so the businesses valued it. Now they don’t have to do that, so businesses don’t allow them room to develop those skills.

I think that rate that people actually developed unnecessary skills outside of work likely remains the same, just the skills that people desire are different to the ones from back then.

I’ve not been a dev for that long, but I’ve been a dev for 15y or so. For the most part it seems to me like that is an effect of business decisions; workers will learn the skills that get recognized. Which skills those are has changed over time.

I don’t see older devs have that quality particularly more then younger devs, what I see is businesses that don’t value that type of behavior. And having worked with “wild West cowboy” coders before, the businesses may be right; they often make a real mess things and just rely on other people to clean up after them.

From what I’ve seen, there are lots of young people who invest in themselves and have passion for the craft, when the business allows them room to grow and doesn’t treat them like a code-producing machine.

That’s true, but that’s also just the general populous, who weren’t ever contributing to open source anyways.
I don’t think the quality of coders (professional or hobby) has really declined that much.

Young people today are struggling to make ends meet - they don’t have enough comfort and free time to be able to donate their labor.

As native speaker of English: English is stupid

I’ll tell you who isn’t first (in my heart); the Angles. Nor are any of their descendants.

his very first program

Who’s very first program? The sysadmin or powerruser? Neither of them are likely to make programs, and idk why anyone would bring a printout of a program to a sysadmin to inspect.

I can’t tell if this is self-deprecation of sysadmin or a PEBCAK joke.

Liberals are bad
But the conservatives are even worse and that says a lot.

God I wish JT actually followed through on his original campaign promise of election reform.

That’s not agile.

It’s not bad, it’s just not agile. Agile exists for projects where that simply isn’t possible. Its sacrificing a bit of potential best-case productivity to ensure you don’t get worst-case productivity.

The problem is that people realized that they could sell agile training to middle management if they changed it to be about making middle managers feel empowered and giving progress visibility to upper management.

🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀 Dude became more hateful and delusional as he aged, he should have been removed from public life decades ago