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Professionals in any field have a responsibility to do good and thoughtful work, and to treat their field with respect. Anyone who just builds whatever crap they're told is a bad professional.
> For example, I work on an app which wouldn't be possible on the web 5-10 years ago. It's a single page app because it needs to be.
No, it doesn't need to be. If you need to use hacks like SPAs to have the functionality you want, that is telling you that you're using the wrong tool for the job, and shouldn't be making a Web site.
What you and a lot of other Web developers have done is, when faced with a square peg and a round hole, break the peg and the hole. Worse yet, not just for you, but for everybody who has to use those pegs and holes. Now the Web is a terrible place even for the people who used it correctly. Now the desktop is a terrible place because Web people have infected it with Electron.
Web developers, if they can be called that, have set back the state of the art by several decades.
IRC is IRC for millenials, Slack came much much later
For what it's worth, you probably don't want to be working with people who are intimidated by email.
> Or that people think that playing video games is for the lazy?
This part. My earlier post meant to say that I can't tell if you think those people are correct (which is wrong) or if you think those people are wrong (but are still citing them?)
Anarchists are not asking for any of those things. Liberals aren't leftists.
I can't tell if you think what you're saying is correct (and you're wrong) or if you think what you're saying is wrong (and you're still wrong.)
Not really. The left tends to oppose government restrictions, as opposed to the center and center-left (liberals).
> but your average user would have no idea 0.5Mb/sec (or some % of a speed tested value) is being used
This is quite wrong
Maybe that's a good thing? Companies are ruining the Internet.
> I think leaving a job is a better protest than doing damage to your employer
You either don't protest or you're very bad at it
MySQL is simply garbage that shouldn't be used under any circumstance.
1. No transactional DDL
2. Implicit, confusing coercions
3. Terrible Unicode handling
4. the list goes on
Advertising is an issue of user autonomy and a user's security in their autonomy. Users don't want to see ads. A browser that is supposed to be "for the users" shouldn't have its main screen be something that their users specifically do not want.
For most of us, adware is a type of malware. For Mozilla, they have a tradeoff between user autonomy and cash flow. They can at least say that the bad things they do are because of the sacks of cash and not for any positive user "experience." Lying about it makes it worse, not better.
Aside from ads, there is the issue that Firefox comes with backdoors (see Mr. Robot ad) and spyware (see telemetry that can't be opted out of.)
Can you highlight which part of my post was a personal attack?