• kbal
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    The surprise is that apparently 28 percent of “experienced programmers” don’t have an ad blocker. I’m not sure how they got the data, but I wonder if their methods are up to the task of sorting out any possible inverse correlation between blocking ads and being willing to respond to polls.

    • @Boxtifer
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      176 months ago

      There’s a surprising amount of programmers that don’t know basics of various parts of an operating system. I know people that know several languages, but get lost on installing a mod pack for a game or installing an app from within another app like a browser.

      • @LordCrom
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        66 months ago

        True. 100% Even today I had to screen share with our lead DB developer to show him how to create a key and ssh to a host.

        Also worked with a guy who would design custom circuit boards for devices, but his windows skill was less than my mother’s (which is terrible)

        • GreenM
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          36 months ago

          Could he be Linux guy perhaps ?

          • @LordCrom
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            16 months ago

            Nope, just bad using any computer OS

    • @Specal
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      116 months ago

      “experienced programmers” in would have web developers fall under that umbrella, I’d guess web developers are less likely to adopt adblockers if their livelihood depends on them

      • @bitchkat
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        66 months ago

        experienced just means they’ve been doing it for some time, it says nothing about how well they do it.

        • @Specal
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          16 months ago

          Hence the quotations ;)

    • @[email protected]
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      106 months ago

      The engineer who sat next to me at my old job didn’t use an adblocker. She also would just ignore anything on the screen that wasn’t directly related to her task. There’d be “please update” OS popups or “do you want to install a plugin for markdown?” ide prompts on her screen for days. When I’d roll over to work on something at her desk I’d be like “how do you work like this?” she was like “like what?”

      She was pretty good at engineering and generally smart. I don’t know how she did it.

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        6 months ago

        I’m wondering about her reason for not using one too. What is the advantage?

        She thinks the web can’t exist without ads? It can, because it did once.

    • @HowManyNimons
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      76 months ago

      20 years pro experience here: I run several different browsers in various states of blockedness for various reasons. But when I’m off the clock, of course, it’s firefox with ublock.

    • credit crazy
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      56 months ago

      Maybe the pol was distributed via ads

    • @iopq
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      16 months ago

      My mom, in her 60s, is an experienced programmer. She programmed before she had the internet