Clojure debugging is a pain because of the thousands lines of Java stacktrace. I really can’t recommend this.

Corporations might hire you for consulting.

The problem here is enforcement.

I really like Ruby’s rake. It’s an actually sane language and quick to learn. No idiosyncratic shell scripts cobbled together. The makefile is written in plain Ruby. That also makes it super powerful to adapt to your needs. Nor parsing XML. Just load your rake file into your interactive Ruby shell (I’m partial to pry), try things, test it. Our time for debugging build errors dropped to a fraction.

I have used it build C++, Objective-C, and Java projects for a medium sized company. Before that we used ant with XML build files from hell.

You can always make patchfiles and apply those.

Instead of rebasing, consider a new brach and then cherry picking commits.

PyCharm is the way to go to write Python.

Interesting idea for sure. I’m not sure it would work though. The concept has lots of cultural implications as well. In traditional monarchies the king is usually divinely ordained, chosen by god. A democracy doesn’t get its legitimacy from above, the people are the ultimate sovereign and legitimize the system. New Monarchy also needs some kind of higher philosophical justification.

Political systems often have a short slogan, that emphasizes their values.

• No gods, no kings, no masters
• liberté, égalité, fraternité
• Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
• blood and Soul
• for god, king, and country
• one man, one vote
• SPQR

New Monarchism could use one as well.

The linked concept of New Monarchy doesn’t have a king. It contains asymmetric votes between classes, which is an interesting idea to keep a check on the aristocracy. I don’t think the system is fully viable as a concept, but it makes a good point at the beginning. If we get an elite ruling class anyway in every system, let’s make it more visible and directly accountable.

It’s status. Apple is regarded as more expensive and high quality.

Understandable. You seem to have reflected on this pretty well.

Emotions can carry us away sometimes, especially when it’s about something we care about deeply.

Dehumanization is always a bad idea.

Fascism is extremism of the center. It’s base are the small business owners, petit bourgeois, the pickup driving contractor.

It’s an interactive checklist.

Yes, SQLite is the most well known and likely biggest project using it.

I have used it for smaller projects and found it quite refreshing and useable

If you’re not stuck on git, give fossil a try. It’s a distributed source code version control with an integrated bug tracker, wiki, forum, and more. All that in in one 3 MB sized binary.

It can even mirror to GitHub and export/import git repositories.

It’s very easy to host yourself.

Self hosting git repos can be super minimal. If you don’t have a lot of users or repos, just use ssh. Hell you can host a repo on a local SMB network share eben.

however much cleanup I damn well please

The programmer is the expert to make the decision on what’s necessary to implement a feature.

It’s like when you write a regex for a specific case, that then gets applied everywhere.

Why can you get a Master in Decolonization Studies at a university?

Due to all the refactoring that’s needed --which I’ve been repeatedly bringing up for two years

Never let that accumulate for that long. Continuously do small refactors to improve the structure.

Always spend at least 20% of the time on stuff you know is necessary, but will never be prioritized by marketing heads.

letting uneducated people

More like overeducated people