It strikes me: is anyone else sick of people calling developing software "building"? Even as a software developer, it feels very supercilious.
I built something that changed my friend group's social fabric
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#122It strikes me: is anyone else sick of people calling developing software "building"? Even as a software developer, it feels very supercilious.
Yes. Especially things like "solutions architect".
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
The “satisfied” part is the most harmful imo. This is what causes lack of actual social interaction and real friendships. Loneliness is on the rise as friendships are on a decline, this is a byproduct of social media gratification The other more obviously negative components tired/overwhelmed are more of a hangover effect people have after over indulgence. But they’re addicted so ultimately always go back for more (m…
I'm not sure the tired/overwhelmed hangover effect is necessarily from social media. I like to think most of my time spent on the internet is productive,reading documentation and cs articles/papers for the most part and i still get that hangover feeling.
That’s mental fatigue from learning and being engaged on a topic for a duration. Maybe some additional from screen time/blue light fatigue. But it used to happen after studying for hours pre-internet.
Just my hunch, but post student life, I think many people are not actually using the internet regularly the way you describe. Only a small percentage of people are doing productive tasks, it’s mostly leisurely consumption
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#124> it was a life savior when my little one was a newborn to jump onto Discord for even 5 minutes to chat with my friends, watch someone play a game and then log off for another diaper change
I'm afraid I can't relate to this at all. I may a bit older and/or I may have less close friends but I prefer a very different kind of social contact that is more like make plans, meet up, rinse and repeat.
Back in the AIM/ORC days I loathed being pinged all the time for chit chat - this system reminds me of that!
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#125> The hardest part was convincing people to download the Discord app on their phone as most of us didn't have it downloaded.
This was surprising to me – is this typical of most Discord users (primarily desktop users over mobile)?
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#126It strikes me: is anyone else sick of people calling developing software "building"? Even as a software developer, it feels very supercilious.
No, build “#3. To develop or give form to according to a plan or process; create”
There’s a line between baking a cake and building a wedding cake where it stops being about the ingredients and starts being about the desired form. https://shunbridal.com/article/how-tobuild-a-wedding-cake
It’s in that context where building software makes sense. You need to link a bunch of different components together to make a greater whole.
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#127Going from signal to discord is crazy. How can you be OK with knowing that your personal voice chats are being monitored, recorded and sold to the next highest bidder? How can it be so easy to choose convenience over that? Or is it that we have essentially given up and wanna actively take a part in mass surveillance?
Not every decision is about opsec. If, for what you're doing, you want people to be alerted about your actions without your explicit say-so, then signal is not the tool for that job.
Shame on discord for having a lousy privacy stance, but most people aren't on signal for the privacy, most people are on signal because that's where their friends are (and one or two of those friends is there for the privacy).
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#128Going from signal to discord is crazy. How can you be OK with knowing that your personal voice chats are being monitored, recorded and sold to the next highest bidder? How can it be so easy to choose convenience over that? Or is it that we have essentially given up and wanna actively take a part in mass surveillance?
Not every decision is about opsec. If, for what you're doing, you want people to be alerted about your actions without your explicit say-so, then signal is not the tool for that job. Shame on discord for having a lousy privacy stance, but most people aren't on signal for the privacy, most people are on signal because that's where their friends are (and one or two of those friends is there for the privacy).
That's the difference between people who give in and people who don't. This is not about "opsec", it's about exercising your fundamental right to privacy. Majority of people are reckless, the ones who take a second to think about it are not
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#129It strikes me: is anyone else sick of people calling developing software "building"? Even as a software developer, it feels very supercilious.
No, build “#3. To develop or give form to according to a plan or process; create” There’s a line between baking a cake and building a wedding cake where it stops being about the ingredients and starts being about the desired form. https://shunbridal.com/article/how-tobuild-a-wedding-cake It’s in that context where building software makes sense. You need to link a bunch of different components together to make a great…
I figured someone would attempt to use the technical definition to make their case.
The problem isn't one of technical definitions, it's one of performative definitions.
I am technically an Online Communications Solutions Integration Architect, and also a guy posting on an internet forum.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, build “#3. To develop or give form to according to a plan or process; create” There’s a line between baking a cake and building a wedding cake where it stops being about the ingredients and starts being about the desired form. https://shunbridal.com/article/how-tobuild-a-wedding-cake It’s in that context where building software makes sense. You need to link a bunch of different components together to make a great…
I figured someone would attempt to use the technical definition to make their case. The problem isn't one of technical definitions, it's one of performative definitions. I am technically an Online Communications Solutions Integration Architect, and also a guy posting on an internet forum.
I was going by vibes with building a wedding cake. I don’t think writing a 3 line bash script is building software.