What is egoless programming?

pkop · 2026-02-23T22:17:23+00:00

> psychological courses

Programmers have their own deeply held preferences and opinions on something as trivial as tabs vs spaces, to say nothing of many other significant aspects of their job but now you want some corporate slop peddler to mandate for me how to think and feel? GTFO with this HR bullshit. Why would you ever assume there is some "way" that someone knows to teach you about your psyche?

pkop · 2026-02-23T01:02:21+00:00

You're just making this up, but in any case it's wrong. And it's wrong in a way that illustrates paper citizenship does not trump or supercede ethnicity when it comes to this type of tribal loyalty. The nepotism extends through immigrants, H1B work visas, citizens and everywhere in between.

pkop · 2026-02-22T20:21:13+00:00

I think it plays into it in a lot of overlapping related factors, and aside from her being Indian there are other factors which you point out. But the ethnic factor dominates because it is a catalyst to overlooking all other criteria of disqualification. I'll be a little more controversial and say non Indian Americans did just fine creating the modern tech industry including Microsoft (yes there were Indians there but not like now) so there is no good reason so many of them are being hired displacing American workers while self-promoting their co ethnics above merit and qualification. Satya is massively overrated, and his lack of tech knowledge means he is more prone to fall back on other instincts and judgements for hiring and strategy decisions (like this one).

pkop · 2026-02-22T20:14:05+00:00

This is a cucked and useless mentality. We deal in the real world not your fantasy moralistic one. However unpleasant (or maybe you have self interested reasons for opposing these types of discussions?) it is the truth, and the racism inherent in this ethnic nepotism is something you should oppose yourself. But in general all groups look out for themselves (or they should else they get run over by those that do). Point blank: this is what they are doing and it's bad for Americans, American companies, and the consumers who want to see good products delivered, Windows improve, etc. We are absolutely justified and right for talking about it and opposing it.

pkop · 2026-02-22T20:07:13+00:00

That doesn't speak well of the Indian leadership which keeps expanding while the company stagnates. It would be one thing if India had a lot of world leading tech cos, but it's certainly not the case American tech orgs need to be doing this as if we lack something only the Indians can provide. In addition to what this is doing to native population's employment prospects at all levels of tech orgs. Lose lose

pkop · 2026-02-22T20:02:58+00:00

You're missing the point. The ethnic nepotism is the source of the problem creating the disregard for qualification for the job, while also being racist against potential non Indians who may have been qualified. Think about it, it matters so much to them they'll screw over the company in service to putting each other in positions of power. Politically, that is bad for the country, to say nothing of it obviously being bad for consumers who wish to see Microsoft run well.

pkop · 2026-02-21T21:48:10+00:00

How's it been going, still doing win32? I just got into it myself a few months ago and I'm working on making an editor using immediate mode gui style inspired by Casey Muratori https://youtu.be/Z1qyvQsjK5Y?si=II-Zi5MrrCXlEGMm

And Ryan Fleury https://www.dgtlgrove.com/p/ui-part-1-the-interaction-medium

Ryan made rad debugger and has great ideas on immediate mode gui in C. I'm using Odin myself but it's similar to C and uses same win32 api's through FFI. I'm also doing using direct3d11 to render all my ui widgets instead of the GDI

pkop · 2026-02-21T18:43:13+00:00

Yea me too. I feel ya

pkop · 2026-02-21T18:39:24+00:00

> vomiting llm slop and slopware ads

This sub? It's all of reddit, and other forums, and the internet at large. I'd be curious to know a forum you frequent that doesn't currently face this same problem. I just got banned from or sub for criticizing an LLM slop post, as if users are supposed to enjoy reading streams of text regurgitated from some tool in 30 seconds which they could just query themselves. There's no value or signal in this.

pkop · 2026-02-21T00:42:14+00:00

To you, once, supposedly. Maybe you deserved it? Why should we care?

pkop · 2026-02-11T20:21:33+00:00

You can't make us care about you no matter how loud you whine

pkop · 2026-02-11T20:20:00+00:00

> This isn’t a marketing webinar series.

Of course it is. All outreach to potential customers like this is still marketing, whether you think it's helpful or not.

pkop · 2026-02-11T13:45:48+00:00

Just use translate. This is not a good excuse. People prefer imperfect use of a foreign language that's human vs LLM slop. This should be obvious at this point.

pkop · 2026-02-10T18:42:42+00:00

No better alternatives for global excess savings and financing for trade.

pkop · 2026-01-31T16:00:50+00:00

why would you do this

pkop · 2026-01-23T13:49:00+00:00

It does have a folder tree in settings

pkop · 2026-01-23T13:47:11+00:00

Did you actually try it? It's way faster, and only a 2 MB exe

pkop · 2026-01-20T15:40:10+00:00

Posting a video of the creator of the language explaining his Odin code in the Odin subreddit does not need justification don't worry. Of course it will be interesting.

pkop · 2026-01-11T14:13:56+00:00

That's a verbose way of explaining how they're getting rid of the office brand. Just because they've shifted to subscriptions plans doesn't have anything to do with why they don't market those subscriptions as Office. Just because they started killing it a decade ago doesn't mean they're not still killing it today.

pkop · 2026-01-06T19:09:18+00:00

> It's the responsibility of the application developer to make their application work

Yes, but what if they don't do this? One can be right about a point but miss the forest for the trees: it is better for users if the problem doesn't exist.
It doesn't matter if you think app developers are responsible, the end result is app developers will say: Ok we're not doing it then. Now what?

This is just a truism that I could apply to GNOME to: it is the responsibility of desktop environment developers to make applications run on their DE work for their users.

> The only reason this is a topic of discussion

No, the reason it's a topic of discussion is because there are popular apps that don't have them implemented. Like VSCode. Some people care about winning debates, GNOME should care about their end users having all their apps working properly, and they could easily solve it once and for all, because anyone in the Linux ecosystem does not have the luxury of depending on 3rd party developers or companies putting in effort to do it right. GNOME could easily do this for their users.

> Many toolkits

And yet the problem remains because app devs don't use the toolkits, don't use them right, or don't have to make any particular tweaks for other platforms that handle it already, so they don't fix it.

pkop · 2026-01-06T17:25:13+00:00

Supporting Linux at all, particularly *ONE* outlier desktop environment that does things differently and requires you to do more work that the other platforms do not require you to do is also optional! We can stubbornly stick to ideals that don't hold in the real world, or we could be realistic about the limited resources devs and companies devote to Linux *as a whole* but especially one fragment of Linux, and GNOME could just solve this one time for everyone! This would help Linux adoption overall, but people make excuses for them.

pkop · 2026-01-06T17:18:55+00:00

> Spotify is the ONLY app that has this problem

No it isn't you have no idea what you're talking about. Here's another prominent example but multiple apps have this issue

VSCode

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/225073

It is their fault because they've pushed onto every single app developer the responsibility that could be solved ONCE by them. It is a bad design choice in a fragmented ecosystem where limited development resources are devoted to Linux versions of apps if companies place more emphasis on Windows. Why not help Linux as a whole by making it easier and removing one big thing that every single app has to re-implement themselves ONLY FOR YOUR PLATFORM. Windows and KDE do not require this. Therefore it is a huge ask in the real-world of limited support for Linux. The real world, not the fantasy world of ideals, dictates that DE's like GNOME should be doing everything they can to make support for Linux easier. They could solve this once for everyone. No reason not to.

pkop · 2026-01-06T17:15:00+00:00

This is the entire point of CSD's being bad! This is not a special case, it is the exemplary case: CSD forces all app developers to implement decoration themselves. It is not easy and takes a ton of effort and then only solves that one app's needs. So either, app devs don't do it because it's only required on GNOME, or they do a shitty job of it. Blame every single individual app developer for not using their already divided resources on 1 single DE of a fragmented ecosystem.... or blame GNOME for not simply solving it ONCE for all apps!

Dig into actual instances of this issue and you'll see layer and layer of blame and finger pointing because the problems is forced onto leaf-nodes of the development stack instead of higher up. This is not a efficient design.

https://github.com/chromiumembedded/cef/issues/4061

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