On all the agile projects I’ve worked on, the teams have been very reluctant to make a specification in place before starting development. Often claiming that we can’t know the requirements up-front, because we’re agile.

Welcome to Europe, where we get 1gbps fiber at reasonable prices. Here in Denmark it is available at ~$30/month for example. Because the same fiber infrastructure is accessible by many different ISPs to offer to consumers.

Article is from 2016

Please don’t give them ideas.

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Since the “new” version it has been shit. Typical big enterprises to break something the users like.

I develop C# on Linux, but I run the full VS inside of a Windows 10 VM.

So convience over privacy, got it. That is pretty much what made Facebook rise to fame.

Are there any online collectives that work together to stop this tomfoolery?

Same as it has been for the last 100 years: Vote with your money. If you don’t like the product/service, don’t buy it. Stop thinking you can force them to change their offering.

How is your anecdote in any way relevant to the article?

Yes Europe is mostly manual. You pay a heavy premium to get a car with automatic transmission. Anecdotally, I bought a Skoda ~5 years ago and had to pay ~20% more for automatic transmission than manual.

Did you even bother to read the article?

Luckily, the creators of the NERV App, Gehirn Inc, have created an app-based alternative for users to get information in real-time, as well as running a Mastodon account

The same could be said about a lot of sources of income. It’s subjective what is considered a job.

If you have been gaining experience in the IT industry as a developer and have good hands-on experience on various issues that appear in any kind of application then you should consider moving higher in the corporate hierarchy.

Or, you know, keep doing what your enjoy and stay a developer.

Way to ignore the death of two people, and hijack the discussion for your own opinions. Good job /s

I started developing software professionally, i.e. for a salary, about 20 years ago. I didn’t have any education beyond high school. Today I’m a freelance software consultant, currently working for a central bank in Europe. You know how I got here? By studying. Learning to use SQL, C#, PowerShell, bash, JSON, etc. I never learned computer algorithms and to this day I can’t write an efficient quick sort in either language. Along the way I learned the value of human interactions and efficient communication, vital to a freelance consultant wanting to be successful. Now my peers would tell you I write clean, efficient, readable, working code. My managers would say I deliver value and play well with others.

My point is it’s not about your theoretical knowledge about CS or The Art of Computer Programming, it’s about delivering tangible value to your employer.

That’s fine. But it crashes constantly on Linux, rarely on Windows. Point being that not all games run fine on Linux.

Let me know when you get Witcher 2 to run on Linux. With some tinkering and magic settings, it can run. But it crashes so often it is bordering unplayable, using several different versions of Proton in Steam and Pop! Os.

Try having children. They wake up at ~5am every day and they are young enough that they can’t take care of themselves yet, so I must go to bed at 10pm if I am to get a decent night’s sleep.

I’m not sure what your point is? We’re taking about ownership, not whether you can reverse engineer sine DRM.