There’s absolutely no way I’ll donate after they announced shutting down mozilla.social in favor of flushing their money down the AI path.

On the other hand, it’s the absolute least intrusive marketing, you can turn it off permanently, and it supports Mozilla who are one of the main bulwarks defending privacy.

Especially on mobile.

Mumble is another strong, open source, self-hosted option.

Disagree. I prefer XML for config files where the efficiency of disk size doesn’t matter at all. Layers of XML are much easier to read than layers of Json. Json is generally better where efficiency matters.

Goodbye Chromecast!

Hello, thing that’s totally not Chromecast.

If I have vegetables or alcohol, I’m going through the cashier line.

If there’s no reasonable cashier line it’s 50/50 that I’m walking out.

They were legally not allowed to as part of an agreement to not be s monopoly and allow competition.

It’s tiered pricing. All the chains are doing it now. Jump through hoops or pay double.

C# is a better language anyway.

I expect the future is in Rust and C#.

I’d rather add more Jira stories.

For what? To keep track of who’s drinking coffee? Are you charging for coffee?

The entire scalping/resale market arguably shouldn’t exist, instead tickets should be refundable within reason, at which point the organiser can issue and sell new tickets.

I had to think about this for a minute, but this is exactly the way to handle it. Don’t allow direct transfers at all. You don’t get to pick who gets your tickets (and therefore scalping can’t exist.). But you still can refund your tickets (maybe with a SMALL fee) up to a couple hours before the event. I hope we don’t need legislation to say they have to be sold for the same price they were originally offered for. We don’t want an incentive for Ticketmaster to steal people’s tickets when a venue sells out.

And it can be in any language, but typically comes from someone who started with Java.

Okay, here we go. I’m going to spit out some bullshit and home someone corrects me if I’m wrong. I’ve looked for some explanations and this is what I’ve gotten.

Are you ready?

The Factory Pattern.

My understanding is that the purpose is a function to return any of several types of objects, but a specific type, not just an interface or whatever they might all inherit from.

I think most languages now have something like a “dynamic” keyword to solve this issue by allowing determination of the type only at runtime. (To be used with extreme caution.)

But most of the time I see the Factory pattern, it’s used unnecessarily and can only return one specific type. Why they would use a Factory pattern here and not just a plain old constructor confounds me.

Am I off base?

Seems like he’s worried you’ll Java everything up, which can be valid.

I think a good, easy example is whether your application should allow a selection of databases or be tied to one database.

You can make arguments for either, often (but not always) regardless of your use case.

Criticizing China in any way.

I think they wanted something more like $10k/year, which seems pretty cheap when you compare it to the price of one employee.

To be fair, I’m sure this is a lone developer at Microsoft, not Microsoft as a company. A lot of this still absolutely applies, but it’s not Microsoft as a company making an official decision to go ask the FFMEPG guys for free shit.

It’d be nice if the guy had an avenue to go to leadership, tell them about the issue, and just ask them to actually fund the guys to work on it.

Everyone’s an idiot sometimes.