ranty

How are the FreeBSD lx jails? Do they leverage Joyent's work, or can't (because CDDL vs BSD)...

It's pretty much welded to x86 and it's entire design is server-only. It'd be much, much harder to port than just using Android.

The only reason everything doesn't end up commoditised is because they're protected in some way. Like, Facebook having all the people, or patents. If not, it's a race to the bottom every time.

It was neither misogynist nor homophobic. It was, however, a really really bad idea.

It's great. Use it.

Use RoR, it's not going anywhere.

Oh shit, I met her. She was bloody hilarious.

You've not burned out, you've matured as a programmer. You can see all the crap for what it is so now try and make a difference...

Champion the cause of code that's legible - and that doesn't mean covering it in syntactic sugar. Legible code makes it damn obvious what it does and how it does it. Sometime find the "power take off" for a tractor ... that's what you're trying to do.

You can also champion the cause of not fixing that which is broken. There is also fun to be had demonstrating the technical debt is real debt and it does need to be paid back.

Much fun introducing peer review, too.

Get yourself, your team or whatever to sit next to your damn customer. Have them look at what you're doing at least once a day so they can say "oh, no, not like that" before it turns into a $100k fuckup.

So, yeah, you've just got through to the next level. It's not the software that's the challenge, it's the people.

If the CEO is such a big success, where the fuck's his Ferrari?

And if he has a Ferrari, where the fuck are your consulting fees?

No.

The $2M is complete bollocks and they need the 100k to keep going until they can find some actual investment. Otherwise they'd be paying your bills.

So tell them you'll consider it once they pay you - and get some kinda signed statement that they do, in fact, owe you for two months consulting.

Frankly, it smells bad and for me that's enough.

I do kinda like swift. Also, Kotlin was a revelation - particularly since the tools are so damn good.

I've just moved into a truly open office for the first time. I hate it so much - even a little privacy helps. I'm a big fan of chest height walls onto the 'public' areas then those table tennis height things between people. But I do not like feeling that every man and his dog is watching me all the time.

Exactly. Splash screens are so 1995 - we need to be getting users to something useful as fast as possible.

Oh god, really. It's not that hard. If you're into it and enjoy learning about it, then your head just fills up. It's like moving to a new town and getting used to the place.