Draiken

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by Draiken 3y ago
This is such a lazy argument. You can't write out in this moment how to solve this <insert large problem here> therefore it's too complex to solve. It's all about incentives. Our society is incentivized to make a few pe
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by Draiken 3y ago
Not specifically for this blog post, but this is more common than it should be, and it's a symptom of organizational failure most of the time. Either the code was merged without the people that would be directly impacted by it reviewin
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by Draiken 3y ago
What do you mean by UI elements defined as ruby components? Are you referring to ViewComponents or something else?
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by Draiken 3y ago
I agree, but that's in no way, shape or form, an utopia. It's better than before, sure. But an utopia? Not even close.
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by Draiken 3y ago
Yeah they lost me there. That's so silly. Absolute takes like that are why we're in this mess we are in today. Don't make me think! Just follow the trend.
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by Draiken 3y ago
Use HTMX and you'll be surprised how much you don't need JS for (or to be more accurate, very little JS). Rails especially is very good for this with partials. Use ERBs (or Haml, Slim, etc) and it's an absolute bliss with the
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by Draiken 3y ago
> Presumably, if it's true, we can point towards examples of it, and try to quantify it. I never went after concrete examples because, like I said, that's a matter for another discussion. But we do have very easy to find exampl
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by Draiken 3y ago
Because we live in a capitalist society and profit is the only objective. Not exploiting your workforce as much as you can is an almost guaranteed road to failure. Imagine taking investor money and saying "I'll pay more to my work
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by Draiken 3y ago
I cannot see how that could be true. I don't know what world you live in if you deem our current society as a perfect place. Maybe you're a billionaire?
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by Draiken 3y ago
> respond with something I interpret as "don't bother, it can't be perfect" That was not my intention. I simply had to point this out because your comment implied that a well functioning free market could somehow solv
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by Draiken 3y ago
There's no such thing as a "well functioning free market". It's an utopia. What we have today is how a free market works. The invisible hand always tipping the scales. They would simply find a better way to get the out
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by Draiken 3y ago
I find this argument so absurd. If you know JavaScript and basic programming, you can use any front-end framework. We're hyper-specializing people in a specific framework that then don't even understand the basics of JavaScript it
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by Draiken 3y ago
Interesting. I had the opposite experience. All of the product suite having no idea about what the product even is, where it should go, making bad decisions over and over, excusing their bad choices behind "data" and finally, as u
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by Draiken 3y ago
Not to mention the entire internet became a giant billboard in which most content only serves the purpose of getting more views to it. Not sure how some view this as a win for humanity. Improvements to our lives are mostly incidental, not t
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by Draiken 3y ago
Depends on what we, as a society, want to value. Do we want to value people with connections and luck, or people that work for their achievements? Of course it's not a boolean, it's a spectrum. But the point remains: valuing lucky
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by Draiken 3y ago
Which proves my point. This cult on top of someone that simply convinced people (they knew from their connections) being considered a genius is absurd.
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by Draiken 3y ago
The sad reality is that most top executives get there because of connections or simply being in the right place at the right time. Funnily enough I also worked for a CEO that hit the lottery with timing and became a millionaire. He then dra
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by Draiken 3y ago
Yeah this cult of CEOs is weird. It's such a small cohort that when someone doesn't completely blow it, they're immediately deemed as geniuses. Give someone billions of dollars and hundreds of brilliant engineers, researchers
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by Draiken 3y ago
This meme is a bit too misleading. In reality tons of startups have a shitty product with zillions of bugs because "move fast break things". Then later on they don't survive because the only reason people even pay for them is
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by Draiken 3y ago
That's good to hear! I would say that "in some states" is the key here. A lot can change depending on the state.
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by Draiken 3y ago
From what I've read, there's almost no data in it since it's all done in private with little to no oversight. This makes the comparison very hard, since one side is has all of its successes and failures critiqued in public, a
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by Draiken 3y ago
They might be adjusted, but not because they need to be. It's simply a great excuse to squeeze even more from employees.
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by Draiken 3y ago
I have never dealt with shaders, so pardon me if it's a very basic question. In a single frame from a game, are shaders essentially all that are being used to draw it? Or do we have basic shapes like triangles, squares, circles, etc an
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by Draiken 3y ago
I'm sorry but I literally LOL. Yeah, let's open a small shop in town to go against Amazon. That'll sure work. What a naive take.
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by Draiken 3y ago
A few, sure. But plenty? Even inside the US, that's a very small niche that's present mostly in a few places like in SV, Seattle and NY (I'm sure there are a few more, but you get my point). The startup world is more about co
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by Draiken 3y ago
Give me his parents initial investment and put me back in the days he started Amazon and I would. Wait, I take it back. I wouldn't be able to exploit people as much as he did because I have a conscience. But I'd still be wealthy e
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by Draiken 3y ago
We can only control ourselves and alas, we are the minority. So blaming everyone else is pointless. Blaming a system that we can regulate and allows companies to get away with shady practices sounds way more reasonable to me.
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by Draiken 3y ago
I don't. I guess you're right that even if they did, they'd do so without publicity. I've seen arguments saying they are still against it, because in the long run, if UAW workers get way better salaries/benefits tha
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by Draiken 3y ago
It's probably illegal even in this case, as the US does have some union protection laws. But AFAICT enforcement is very lacking. The typical theory versus practice scenario where in practice they are not really effective.
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by Draiken 3y ago
Wouldn't Tesla be supporting UAW if that was 100% accurate? AFAIR Tesla follows the typical US corporation stance of "kill it with fire" against unions. A sick version of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend"

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