DanielHB

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by DanielHB 2y ago
Could you elaborate on the existential dread? What causes it exactly?
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by DanielHB 2y ago
I know, it didn't work and (in my opinion) did more harm than good to his reputation.
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by DanielHB 2y ago
It is because Trump is doing most of these things through executive orders and presidential appointments it is up to the judiciary to strike them down, not the congress. To make this stuff permanent they would need to go through congress, t
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by DanielHB 2y ago
If you mean Trump I don't "trust him", I am just highlighting that they don't seem to be in the position or want to interfere with the voting process. Now that they are in power interfering with the election process seem
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by DanielHB 2y ago
A bad transition of power usually (almost always?) results in an increase of the role of government. Bad transitions of power requires the new government to assert its power in order to legitimize itself. In the worst scenarios that means
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by DanielHB 2y ago
I see no reason why it wouldn't, they don't seem to be trying to dismantle the voting system. I am not super familiar with the US system but my impression is that a most of it is handled at the state level, not the federal level.
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by DanielHB 2y ago
> So I think that there's a difference between "government takeover to shrink the size of the state" is different from "government takeover to add another layer of unelected bureaucracy to run our lives" Maybe in
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by DanielHB 2y ago
If anything the current JS-centric world view at least puts someone in charge of the "user-facing" parts. Before you had all these backend-focused people who despised building HTML pages in charge of user experience. You know the
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by DanielHB 2y ago
I would say proper transitions of power is part of good government. Your phrasing makes it sound like governance doesn't need to be good as long as it transitions properly. Improper transitions of power cause bad governance.
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by DanielHB 2y ago
I currently work on a B2B SaaS company (not gaming) where we have quite the interesting problem: We want to move clients onto our cheaper plans. The profit margin on our cheaper offerings is higher (because of licensing agreements), so we h
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by DanielHB 2y ago
I just want to highlight one thing about this whole government takeover debacle. The reason you have the separation of power (legislative, judiciary, executive) is not to be efficient, it is to prevent generational abuse. Even a well intent
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by DanielHB 2y ago
People tend to forget all the god awful server-side PHP/JSP/ASP slop of back in the day. I dunno, to me those days felt worse than today. But yeah, bad software is bad no matter the tech used.
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by DanielHB 2y ago
I was wondering all the crappy simulation software used in engineering that is still CPU-bound.
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by DanielHB 2y ago
Really looking forward what all that GPU compute is going to do for non AI stuff once it quiets down a little.
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by DanielHB 2y ago
Not only that, but in photoshop and word dialogs for features released in 1995 had different design conventions from dialogs from feature released in 1999. Not UI controls and stuff like that (everything was still using win32), but the desi
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by DanielHB 2y ago
I think you have a bit of rose tinted glasses, I remember back in the day how much people complained about every feature being shoved into the title bar menus of word and photoshop. Eventually growing the menus too long with a bunch of feat
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by DanielHB 2y ago
From what I hear in other engineering industries (software engineering is engineering) it is more like people just stick with what they know because it can take 5-50 years for a new technique/tool that is significantly better to show u
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by DanielHB 2y ago
I worked in two companies who did IQ tests for hiring, the people in those companies were very knowledgeable engineers. Not necessarily good engineers, but they knew their shit. Being cracked at something doesn't make you a good engine
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by DanielHB 2y ago
The main problem I see is that the people who get those leadership positions are usually the ones who like to overcomplicate/over-abstract things a lot. I never wanted to become a team lead or staff engineer but the older I get the mor
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by DanielHB 2y ago
It is funny how it is easier for google to acquire companies than do strategy in-house. Like they buy Youtube and Android and then pump them with resources instead of trying to do in-house. If they had bought a video-call company instead of
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by DanielHB 2y ago
Jeez that sucks, was it all due to the decision to offload streaming to 3rd parties? How could they not do any cost estimations? It must have been a huge project that lasted months.
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by DanielHB 2y ago
Damn man, what is going on at Viaplay now? My former team lead used to work there and went back after he left the place where we worked together. This was my intuition as well, unless you are doing B2B (with billing proportional to the stre
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by DanielHB 2y ago
There are B2B SaaS services for streaming content, you upload the file they host and stream it for you with some API integrations to restrict access. Although I imagine they cost more than youtube's cut from ad-revenue.
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by DanielHB 2y ago
> Google Docs and whatnot came out all the way back in the late 2000s, but it still didn’t see any measurable adoption by the time office 365 was out. Maybe it is because Google didn’t stick with it and develop it, but I still think it w
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by DanielHB 2y ago
My PC built around 2021 can't either, apparently (for ASUS motherboards at least) you need to manually update the bios and enable it: https://www.asus.com/microsite/motherboard/ASUS-motherboards...
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by DanielHB 2y ago
Jeez, I suppose we should only allow people in who grew up living under a bridge like you.
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by DanielHB 2y ago
Examples? I right now work in one, but I wouldn't call my company big (<200 people). From my (limited) experience google workspace doesn't really offer the level of control over employee computers that microsoft solutions do (l
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by DanielHB 2y ago
I completely disagree. Google was already cloud-native with docs and sheets in 2007 while people were emailing excel files back and forth. It took like 10 years for microsoft to get there. And one drive is still terrible compared to google
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by DanielHB 2y ago
maybe remove the > managing jira, counting story points, scrum mastery... JK! None of that stuff around here— we run our own systems engineering, streamlined for use-inspired R&D that evolves and scales. from your job description, I
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by DanielHB 2y ago
To be fair in 2007 it really did seem like google could completely destroy microsoft monopoly on enterprise software with google docs, google sheets and google workspace. And then they just didn't? They just gave up, only small compani

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