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2071.
by 9dev 2y ago
Oh please. The value proposition is that they spend time so you don’t have to, on something that isn’t your actual product. If you don’t understand why that provides value to other businesses, you probably don’t run one?
2072.
by 9dev 2y ago
…and it’s a perfect display of the technical competence of Docker Inc. :) they do stuff like that, in all kinds of domains, all the time.
2073.
by 9dev 2y ago
Elasticsearch is a pain to maintain, the docs are all over the place, and the API is what you end up with if developers run free and implement everything that jumps to their mind. But there just isn’t anything comparable when it comes to
2074.
by 9dev 2y ago
As someone working extensively with word2vec: I would recommend to set up Elasticsearch. It has support for vector embeddings, so you can process your PDF documents once, write the word2vec embeddings and PDF metadata into an index, and sea
2075.
by 9dev 2y ago
That sounds like just about every single post-acquisition statement ever made.
2076.
by 9dev 2y ago
I don’t know what axe you have to grind, but TypeScript is firmly in the hands of the community now. There’s not much Microsoft could do to change that. In what way would it be rent-seeking?
2077.
by 9dev 2y ago
It's a real problem for all countries not using the metric system, so, uhhh... the US, Liberia, and Myanmar. If the units have no meaningful way of conversation, like gallons, ounces, pounds, cups, and so on, cooking can get hard.
2078.
by 9dev 2y ago
> The one exception is "search" queries - "how tall is Everest" and so on, but that only really works well on Google's platform because they've done all the work for that already. Had a small Google Assistan
2079.
by 9dev 2y ago
Add to that that ordering stuff without explicitly stating the total, final price to the customer is illegal in the EU, that was never even going to work everywhere at all...
2080.
by 9dev 2y ago
Doesn't that come down to the same thing effectively? Debt and taxation are details of a system of trusted authorities built around the economic system of human work. And if we consider a CBDC to still count as cryptocurrency, in my op
2081.
by 9dev 2y ago
This is simply not correct. A fiat currency is ultimately bound to the performance of the global economy, so it sure ties into gold mines or the lion teeth gathered by hunters, I've you're so inclined to keep it savage. The dollar
2082.
by 9dev 2y ago
Effectively, human work. Money is an abstraction over the relative value we assign physical goods; instead of bartering, we collectively agree on using money as an intermediate form. The financial system, then, is a lot more abstraction ove
2083.
by 9dev 2y ago
> cash is the easiest way for drug dealers to get payment for the drugs they are pushing on the street. Yet, the answer to that is not to demand that society goes cash-less. That is exactly what many are proposing, or at least a core ar
2084.
by 9dev 2y ago
You nailed that metaphor. To the very end.
2085.
by 9dev 2y ago
First, let's make a distinction between TFA and the comment I was replying to, which implied that dating a woman with children did not imply any responsibility towards her children. And this is what I'm objecting: Dating someone w
2086.
by 9dev 2y ago
When dating someone with children, but you don’t want to go all-in with that person, please just leave: you’re not only making the life of your partner miserable, but also destroy their child’s or children’s. You will invariably end up walk
2087.
by 9dev 2y ago
I wasn’t assigning blame here, but rather preaching the virtues of balancing the interests of engineering and business folks.
2088.
by 9dev 2y ago
Yeah, exactly. That’s why you want a culture of collaboration between engineers and managers to come together and decide what is important. It’s just hard to keep that up in practice, especially if a company grows.
2089.
by 9dev 2y ago
It leads to a conflict of interest: that’s why we have checks and balances in government, and draw a clear line between executive and legislative powers. If we simply accepted the fact that the wizards of the arcane machines knew what they
2090.
by 9dev 2y ago
I used to think that way, until I had my own junior developers, and felt like that guy trying to bake a cake with three beagles: They veer off, constantly, in all directions. Developers deep in the trenches tend to have a bad feeling for bu
2091.
by 9dev 2y ago
I'm actually working on something like this: https://github.com/project-kiosk/kiosk/tree/v3 I'm still deep in the trenches, though. That project is like my personal zen garden of deadline-free softw
2092.
by 9dev 2y ago
But that just doesn't match the way people use the web, like it or not. Building native applications just isn't worth it for many businesses: You need to adhere to compliance and security, different platforms and operating system
2093.
by 9dev 2y ago
Think about it like this: In the beginnings of Web 2.0 people used tables for their layouts. The experience was abysmal, but it worked and allowed quite sophisticated layouts, remnants of which you can still find sometimes today. HTML has c
2094.
by 9dev 2y ago
Same for us. If I write in the general channel that I will be five minutes late for the meeting, I don’t need everyone to say, „okay, thanks for letting us know“, a simple thumbs up from someone is enough to know at least one person has rea
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by 9dev 2y ago
Are you seriously telling me you’re interpreting a thumb up emoji as a literal I like X , instead of applying a little common sense and infer that they probably meant to say „okay“ with that?
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by 9dev 2y ago
Right. There’s no point for those „power users“ to talk about some obtuse email culture then, if they’re evidently not a part of that culture in the first place, but just referring to their particular pet peeve niche.
2097.
by 9dev 2y ago
The best recommendation I can give is to pick a standard like JSON:API, and stick to it. Not to make the standard wonks happy, but to save your team from discussions on how to structure a given response. Less bike shedding, essentially.
2098.
by 9dev 2y ago
The popover API is pretty much brand new. Sure, that would probably work. That misses my point, however; lots of basic building blocks of modern UIs users expect are missing from browsers today (or on the popover case, yesterday) and need t
2099.
by 9dev 2y ago
Most of the heavy lifting of modern web applications is still on "userland" JavaScript frameworks instead of the browser, because lots of dynamic interactions can't really be modelled with HTML alone. For example, consider cr
2100.
by 9dev 2y ago
Because it's the only ubiquitous, actual multi-platform delivery channel we have. Web browsers are available on pretty much any device in the hands of users right now . And while HTML doesn't map too well, it is certainly good

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