I think you may be failing to internalize the real lesson from your anecdote: how hard a task is has almost zero correlation with how valuable such task is for the business. If management didn't care about the very difficult work you did, and assuming management actually has a good understanding of the business, then that very difficult work just wasn't very valuable and maybe shouldnt've been done at all (because if you do a cost-benefit analysis, and something is really hard and the benefit small, it's an easy call to not do it).

Of course, there are things that have almost no immediate benefit to the business but must be done, like when you need to refactor a large code base to be able to implement future features in a way that doesn't destroy the software from within... but if you analyse such cases properly, their benefit is very big for the company in the long run and that's where communication plays an important role: management needs to understand why that refactor is so important, which I admit may be difficult in case of non-technical management (but then you have bigger problems than just properly judging the cost-benefit of some task).

Why do you think there's more "fairness" in everyone getting 15% raises across the board rather than the few who perform above others getting better raises? I find that almost the definition of unfair?!

What you're probably thinking of is that it's more important for the group to get rewarded, not the individuals... but that's good NOT because it's fair, it's good because in the end, what a company really cares about is the end result of everyone's work... that doesn't make it fair to the individuals who actually performed most of such work, quite the opposite. Yes, there's a trade off being made between fairness and being result-driven, or making the wellness of the group more important than the satisfaction of the individual (or "social justice" if you may use a very overloaded term).

Nothing beats Beej's Guide to C: https://beej.us/guide/bgc/

EDIT: ah, the person asking this is from Beehaw so they won't see my answer :/ if someone is on a non-defederated Lemmy instance, feel free to pass on my suggestion.

I've never used any apps (I avoid mobile apps at all cost) and Lemmy seems to work perfectly well on the web, both on desktop and on mobile. Can you point out what makes you want to use an app, and even pay for it, for Lemmy (or Reddit and similar websites)?

No, unless at some point, most content is no longer about Reddit and Lemmy! Trying to give it a good chance for now.

A GUI that is comfortable to use with only a keyboard

You're looking for Magit. It's so nice that even non-emacs users use emacs just for that.

I use both Magit and IntelliJ's Git support which is amazing. Using git without a GUI for things like merges, commit reviews, conflict resolution... is really painful.

This is an obvious consequence of more users moving to Lemmy... do you think spammers will not follow the users, specially on a place where anyone (not matter how spammy) can run their own instances and try to federate with everyone else?? Their only challenge is to stay in "business" without being banned for as long as possible, but as they can keep spawning new instances longer than you can keep banning them, that seems like a losing battle.

If they are being honest, they will let users from those communities to take over moderation.

Oh wow, didn't expect this to be so comprehensive! Very nice resource.

FYI when I click on your first link, I go to https://lemmy.world/c/programming which is completely empty.

Cool, a Clojure Native would be a good reason to try it out!

Does any of these have good programming content? Unfortunately, I can't find anything interesting (some of them don't have anything at all, interesting or not) so far. Really missing reddit/r/programming.

Hi, I am new here :) just wondering: where's the programming content? All I see is posts about Reddit and Lemmy.

Thanks for the clarifications.

I still seem to be able to comment on posts on [email protected] ... only other lemmy.world users will see those comments?

Lemmy itself is open source... it's written in Rust, if you have interest in learning that... but seems to have a TypeScript frontend...

There are just so many open source projects that's hard to choose one :) the best thing is to try to help on something you actually use. If you just want a random suggestion , try https://github.com/trending Lots of Python in there! There are filters, including for language... e.g. for Go projects : https://github.com/trending/go?since=daily

Find something you want to actually use, use it, then try to improve whatever bothers you...

You're going to suggest switching web servers without any reason at all? Do you think that's a reasonable thing to do?

What would Caddy have that Nginx does not, and why would Lemmy need whatever that is? What problem do you believe switching would solve, and does the cost of making the effort required to do it make that a worthwhile endeavour?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/11/aukus-pact-australia-pays-830m-penalty-for-ditching-non-nuclear-french-submarines

After the fiasco of the submarine program Australia had with France, Sweden should be really careful with the terms of the contract :)

PS Would like to write på svenska but still learning, hope it's ok.

This site is really responsive and looks nice, has lots of good features etc... well done to the devs who created it... I know some Rust and could probably help out, I will have a look at the tickets and see if I can find time to explore the source code... thanks for the raising this up, I am sure others like me will find this and want to join the battle... being open source and community owned, I think it deserves contributions from users who are able to (and donations for those who still want to help but can't contribute code).

EDIT: wow the code is very easy to follow! Highly recommend having a look if you know some Rust or want to practice Rust :)

In which planet does a Lua developer get more money than a Java/Javascript/Kotlin developer?? And I always find it amazing how Dart is consistently low-paid, despite mobile developers normally having a pretty decent salary and Dart being almost solely used for mobile dev... this must be like a few big Dart/Flutter users that pay very little (perhaps in some developing country) while Zig, the best paid language, is very likely only used in a couple of high paying companies (Uber seems to use it for a few small things, and I guess someone like Google/Facebook may be using it as well - they use every language under the Sun).