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Submission + - Should I ditch PHP? 2

Qbertino writes: I do PHP for a living. The problem I have is the classic catch-22: PHP is used at every streetcorner which accounts for an abundance of jobs and work to do. However, I'm growing increasingly frustrated with the ignorant and clueless in the vincinity of PHP. Crappy code and baaaaad application setups is one thing, but people refusing to fix them or simply not even understanding the broader implications of bad applications or attempting SEO with gadgets while refusing to fix 3.5 MB per pagecall are just minor tidbits in a history of increasingly unnerving run-ins with knuckledragers in the "web agency" camp. My strong suspicion is, that this also correlates directly with the prominence of server-side done with PHP in these teams. Will I leave the larger part of this backwards stuff behind if I move to another server-side PL such as Java or Kotlin for professional work in the broader web area? Do I have a chance to do quality work on quality projects using PHP or are those slim compare to other PLs? In short, should I ditch PHP?

Comment Re:And 300-400 workers less (Score 0) 237

Another reason for Universal Basic Income. Tax the robots, or the lasers in this case; the company will still get ahead and be willing to innovate. The workers without a job will have an income for survival and can pursue continued education or training in something, or freely innovate at home start their own business or invention; or; sit at home and do nothing but continue to create jobs by spending the UBI back into the economy.

Comment will it ever have a desktop that just works? (Score 1) 359

Been using Linux in some form since pre-1.0 kernel. Years ago I stopped using it as my main OS because quite simply, I got tired of constantly fixing multi-monitor setups and just getting the desktop to be stable. Sure there was large periods of time when things were fine, but always a hassle when upgrading hardware. The open source vs vendor supplied (if you were lucky to have a vendor to supply) drivers was always a tradeoff; gaining something but losing something else. Fortunately there are type-2 hypervisors now and huge ass monitors that can split the screen multiple ways.

Comment UBI (Score 1) 1014

The same concerns were said about the Industrial Revolution. That was the equivalent of robots back then, and things turned out fine. The newspeak you see in the article is just a smokescreen to protect ultra-high profit margins. Yes, some people will lose their jobs. The solution here is to tax the robots and stop putting billions into non-functioning F-35s, useless wars that murdered a million Iraqis, supporting the genocide in Yemen, etc. This could easily pay for a Universal Basic Income that will allow for people to attain education and learn real skills or tinkering and innovating in their garages and coming up with the next best thing without having to forgo that because they need to hang onto their $9/hr slave wage to get by instead. Yes, for every system there will always be a few shitheads that game it or try to, it is unavoidable no matter what. It would be no different than what we have today, in fact likely even less; you give a person UBI and an opportunity to learn something valuable, they are more likely to succeed than to give them a slave wage at a meaningless job.

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