Ask HN: What's your most unpopular dev opinion?

In the example I initially assumed your font was the Jetbrains example and thought it was ugly and unreadable. Then when I saw the next example I read it with no effort and almost immediately internalized that the mini-space is not and the wide-space is.

Are there any default fonts that do this on most systems? Mac, Windows, iOS, etc. that I can use if I don’t have access to install a font. I am often on shared devices and this would be a game changer if my first experience is what I think it is - easier and more enjoyable reading.

(Going to install it now on my iPhone to experiment it as a default daily driver)

I got used to the padding in a few minutes, the first version had a 1/4 space padding and then I pushed it to a 1/3.

To me, the main problem is tabularized alignment. So I don’t use it for example on nginx.conf

What is your definition of AGI? Is natural general intelligence something you think brains are physically capable of, or is some non-physical aspect required?

And yet the brain exists, is it magical? Or is it that Gödel's theorem has nothing to do with intelligence, which is mostly a big pile of heuristics anyway?

Popularity matters in the case of advertising. Advertising happens to be Silicon Valley's only "business model". Silicon Valley and software developers in general seem obsessed with popularity.

This is one of the better questions for "Ask HN". Commenters who try to argue against the opinions only serve to support the notion that the opinions are unpopular.

In fact, 90% of the bugs in the product of the startup I work for come from the (typescript) frontend, instead of the larger (rust) backend.

And if a person

1. lives in a jurisdiction where the restrictions on the "engineer" label don't apply

2. has a job and the job title in their contract is "software engineer"

what should they do according to you - not use their actual job title out of reverence for the professional standards of people with a different profession in a different country?

I agree that many software developers are not software engineers.

The reason you call people engineers is that they certify/sign off on designs/releases. It's bureaucracy + technical knowledge. For the sake of efficiency they're usually also the ones who create the designs. IME this is what the difference between software developer and software engineer means.

No there's no licensing board, that's probably a good thing IMO, if there was any more policy involved than we already have software would probably be worse.

Also in my state CS grads are allowed to sit for the FE if they want. No one does this of course.

My degree course actually had the option of converting to a BEng from a BSc if you so chose once you'd done your industry year.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37233321

The so-called "software engineer" may not have a university degree. They may have only worked for employers who themselves were college dropouts.

Tradespeople with only a high school education have licensing requirements; they can all themselves professionals. The so-called "software engineer" has no licensing requirements.

Using computers, software and the internet as a Trojan Horse to collect data and provide advertising services, unlike trades and other licensed professions, is mostly unregulated. The behaviour that so-called "software engineers" routinely engage in is the entithesis of professionalism.

HN commenters often express disdain for formal education. Perhaps it is too difficult for them to complete the requirements to become licensed professionals. Generally, liability for use of the "software engineer's" work product, i.e., software, is disclaimed in softwaare licenses or "terms and conditions" attached to websites or mobile apps. The so-called "software engineer" has no meaningful legal responsibility to software users.

How can software today, so-called "modern" software, be so bad and getting worse. Perhaps this is how.

Using Go has been more fun. Where fun means less surprises.

Here is a sample folder structure (from memory, not exactly the same):

    /Customer/Project/:
    ./.190   -   STEEL  -   QTY  - 3 -   CUSTOMER - PART#.dxf
    ./.190 STEEL - QTY 1 - CUSTOMER - PART# DO NOT ETCH BEND LINES.dxf
    ./LEFT SIDE    BRACKET B.sldprt
    ./PART 3.sldprt
    ./PRJ001.sldprt
    ./PRJ002.sldprt
    ./PRJ401.sldprt
    ./ALL PARTS PUT TOGETHER.sldasm
    ./FINAL ASSY.sldasm
    ./STEPS ASSY.sldasm

They also have (ON PURPOSE!) a system where they have 3 sources of truth so if any of them don't match we have to stop what we're doing to double check what's actually correct :|

While they didn't take my suggestions on this particular thing, my expertise has been noted for when there's a need for printer troubleshooting...