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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I’m not sure what that last paragraph was about, but I was extremely religious throughout highschool. Like, leading youth group retreats and all.

    Catholicism comes in many forms for many people. The OP could be legit. My family struggled with the idea of fantasy. It was a strongly held belief that dabbling in things that tilted occult would result in possession. An actual conversation I had with my mother was that Magic the Gathering would result in demonic possession, which would not be fixed because the Catholic Church officially stopped exorcism after Vatican II.

    Some people take Catholicism more seriously and at seriously more weird ways than you can imagine from “having a Catholic friend.”




  • It’s fine to not know every language. I’m not saying you must know every language. I’m saying that only knowing one and refusing to use another is a problem I’ve seen from PHP, Java, and C# cultures almost exclusively.

    The only exception I’d say that makes sense is people who are using coding for a small part of their overall job. But full time software engineers should have at least a few options in their belt for backend that they understand and can use in different scenarios.


  • My issue with PHP isn’t the language, it’s the developers. PHP developer culture is much like C# and Java culture.

    I could bring a million reasons I don’t want to program in PHP and every time we talk about it, the PHP developer tells me I should be using it for everything. If I suggest that it may not be the best tool for a particular task at hand, the PHP developer tells me it’s the only language they know so they will use PHP.

    The issue is that this type of culture closes doors mentally. In any craft, we should try to use the best tool available for the task at hand. In carpentry you’d use a hammer with nails and a screwdriver with screws. In programming, there are times using PHP makes sense and times it doesn’t.

    In container based services, I tend to lean toward a compiled binary because it reduces the size of the container at run time and most modern languages don’t require tons of heavy duty frameworks to scale well there.

    In a monolith, a fully interpreted language with an MVC framework could make sense.




  • Why isn’t purchasing the part through Apple enough?

    And also Is the consumer not allowed to assume the risk of going through after market repair that you seem to be concerned about?

    This issue has always been about Apple trying to force older iPhones into obsolescence. They want the freedom to eventually say that no more parts exist for that device so you’ll have to upgrade. If repair shops can leverage broken phones to repair other phones, that extends the life of the device part Apples plans.

    Most people will continue using older phones as long as they can because they don’t need the latest phone.




  • I’m a backend engineer. My biggest issue with JavaScript is environments that use it in the backend.

    JavaScript is designed to run in a way that continue to try to do things even when it’s running in to errors. But it does that because I’m a front end that’s what you want. In the front end, working but ugly is better than not working at all. In the backend that can be catastrophic, though.