BigJono

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by BigJono 3y ago
I don't think it's that SD and LLMs are solutions looking for problems, it's that there are very clear problems to which they provide 90% of a solution and make it impossible to clear the last 10%. They're the new WYSIWY
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by BigJono 3y ago
The webcrap industry is crap because most of the people in it believe it can be automated lol. All the shittest most inefficient projects I've been on have been loaded to the gills with libraries, frameworks, dev tools and convoluted t
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by BigJono 3y ago
I agree completely with the underlying principles, I just think once the CEO has commented and stirred up some interesting discussion that's relevant to a large segment of your userbase, the thread doesn't really belong to some ge
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by BigJono 3y ago
I don't really buy that to be honest. I read this whole thread before the CEO posted and after, and neither time thought any of the comments were out of line or even that the general mood was any more heated than any other random HN th
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by BigJono 3y ago
Tell you what is a good question, why is this thread on page FIVE of HN (ranked #125) with 1000+ upvotes, 400+ comments and only 7 hours old?
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by BigJono 3y ago
Why are you posting flowery sales bullshit on a site full of devs? lol As someone that's been using React and Express for the better part of 10 years, what are you adding on top that would provide value? Because my first thought whenev
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by BigJono 3y ago
Commercial leases for large offices are pretty long. I think 8-10 years or longer is fairly normal? If you're stuck with 5 more years of 2019 rates and all your competitors have downsized, your cost per employee is going to be much hig
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by BigJono 3y ago
Yep, that's why there are so many Bloomberg articles jacking off RTO. It's a better investment to shout about how everyone else should RTO than to do it yourself. Shareholders and board members don't want their company to R
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by BigJono 3y ago
The evil part is forcing more Jira, sprints and retros on people who are burned out because of Jira, sprints and retros lol.
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by BigJono 3y ago
Yep. IME the only way to make a salaried team of 10 devs work efficiently is to have enough work that you can split it cleanly into 5-10 projects that 1-2 people can own and work on autonomously. Too bad every team I've ever worked on
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by BigJono 3y ago
I don't know how you can put TS in the S-tier when the community is hell bent on making every codebase as unreadable and complicated as possible.
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by BigJono 3y ago
I dunno, after experiencing the 20 fps boost from DLSS I'm starting to think indoor plumbing and the wheel might've been a bit overrated.
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by BigJono 3y ago
Or it might be one way in which it's exactly the same.
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by BigJono 3y ago
Absolutely fuck all.
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by BigJono 3y ago
Nothing is more unreadable than "readable" names. I absolutely detest working with code that uses for example stuff like ImmutableJS, that turns every property access into `.get('')` instead of a simple `.` operator. I w
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by BigJono 3y ago
If they needed to find safer legal ground they could reimplement the community balance patch, which overhauls basically every game system, and is a much better game tbh.
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by BigJono 3y ago
People that schedule meetings like that don't want pushback. They're not trying to optimise the list of people in the meeting, they're trying to grow it at the expense of everything else. They genuinely believe that whatever
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by BigJono 3y ago
People are very quickly going to find out that "never rewrite" can't be taken as absolute advice. If you have 5Mloc of third party dependencies and AI generated code that you can't extend and can barely keep functional i
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by BigJono 3y ago
It's not a zero sum game. All the enterprise companies hiring 3,000 engineers only need a tiny fraction of their software to run their core businesses, and most of it is legacy. When a tech recession hits and clears out the clown car,
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by BigJono 3y ago
> all of that, is caused by the message they send out every single day, reminding people to focus on delivering all promised features today. More realistically it was caused by those messages, but with a 4 year lag time, back in the days
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by BigJono 3y ago
> - stay humble. you are inherently no better than the guy who cleans the floors, even if you are paid more The guy that cleans the floors is doing a useful job, and doing a better job of it than I could do. The other programmers on the
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by BigJono 3y ago
There's a really easy way to tell. If I say something like "I've got my sales history in a database and need to graph how many widgets I've sold over time", do you start thinking about concepts and code, or do you s
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by BigJono 3y ago
How many of these startups are building new models, datasets and algorithms? Or are they all just prefixing a few lines to a prompt before passing it on to a 3rd party API? If these companies actually had something worth celebrating, would
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by BigJono 3y ago
> It isn't harder to pay than to pirate. lmao, you've obviously never watched anyone over 50 try and use streaming services in 2023. If I had a one use time machine, fuck killing Hitler, I'm using it to go to the day I tau
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by BigJono 3y ago
Yes, I am, all the best devs I know are, and I honestly believe it's the 10x play right now. Since 2016 I've seen reasonably large enterprise SaaS projects with similar scopes go from $5M builds to $50M builds without anyone els
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by BigJono 3y ago
That is unironically a better way to do it than anywhere I've worked that does microservices. My experience with microservice shops is you have one macromonolith with 50 people working on it (which has all the problems of a monolith an
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by BigJono 3y ago
Nobody is talking about building the engine lol, you're all making the exact "just program everything in assembly" comment the author was taking the piss out of. You have probably 80% of people using React that have absolutel
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by BigJono 3y ago
I think the reason people do that stuff is because they do provide abstraction, but they only do it in UML diagrams, not in the code. I've found the shittest programmers to work with are the ones that think visually, because in their
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by BigJono 3y ago
I think you might've missed the point a little bit. It doesn't read to me like "abstractions bad", it's saying if you're going to use an abstraction you should learn how it works (and that we've built so m
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by BigJono 3y ago
That section actually has an error. "There's no minimum weight requirement to become a sumo wrestler", there is, it's 67kg. Though they're getting rid of it next year, probably because they've finally figured o

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