JimDabell

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by JimDabell 4mo ago
I think you’re conflating development and design there. I’m saying that development is at risk, I’m not commenting on design. Taste in colours and things like that are design.
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by JimDabell 4mo ago
He isn’t shipping anything. Asking for code review is not shipping. This is the complaint: > he doesn't make it easy for the team to look at. He has traded readability for volume. The lack of readability is causing him to ship less.
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by JimDabell 4mo ago
> when talking about economic growth of software is, money has to come from somewhere. Someone has to give it to you. So it you want to keep growing I’m not talking about growth here. I’m merely saying that it won’t recede. My argument i
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by JimDabell 4mo ago
I’ve been writing front-end code for more than a quarter of a century. I can assure you I’m not saying this because I’m unfamiliar with the field.
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by JimDabell 4mo ago
Most organisations need a high quality design system and to be able to assemble pages from it. Totally bespoke design will start with the designer using an agent. So the way I see it, the everyday stuff will be the first to go, followed by
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by JimDabell 4mo ago
No, you are ignoring my central point by assuming that the amount of software that is being produced remains fixed. Every other time we have increased software engineer productivity, we have responded by producing more software.
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by JimDabell 4mo ago
It’s a thread promoting an AWS podcast episode. The link is in a reply because X limits the reach of top-level posts that contain links. The X thread shouldn’t’ve been posted here. If the podcast episode is worthwhile, a link to that should
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by JimDabell 4mo ago
This is called a “reverse centaur”.
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by JimDabell 4mo ago
When I use any moderately complex piece of software, for instance a word processor, the UI is stacked full of things I don’t use, making it less convenient for me to use. At the same time, simple features that would be useful to me are not
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by JimDabell 4mo ago
We have been aggressively and enthusiastically automating away software engineering for the entire history of the computer industry. Every time we do so, we are able to build bigger, better things more quickly. When this happens, our work b
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by JimDabell 4mo ago
> AI's biggest critic has lost the plot — https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/ais-biggest-critic-has-lost...
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by JimDabell 4mo ago
> the sources don't seem to back the title either. This is nothing new for Zitron. The last article of his I saw: > I also severely doubt that Anthropic managed to make the cost of running its services profitable in the space of
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by JimDabell 4mo ago
That doesn’t make sense in this context – the point of PCC is so you know somebody isn’t snooping on your information when you send it to the servers. The person I was responding to seemed to think that Apple would be looking at that inform
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by JimDabell 4mo ago
No. I provided the link so you could read more about it.
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by JimDabell 4mo ago
> Wouldn't it be more accurate to call Apple's architecture data protection rather than privacy? As an European citizen in a post Snowden world I would be surprised if any of my data on Apple services was actually kept private
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by JimDabell 4mo ago
They did, in fact, design CSS to implement this kind of design easily. You were able to implement that in a simple way without any weird hacks using only the functionality in CSS 2.0, published in 1998. Unfortunately, the simple way was to
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by JimDabell 4mo ago
I’m not saying the iPhone was the first phone with a web browser, I’m saying that it was the first phone with a web browser that was good enough for average people to want to use it. Clients were lining up en masse for iPhone-compatible web
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by JimDabell 4mo ago
The original iPhone had a 3.5” screen, Wi-Fi, and EDGE. The iPhone 3G came a year later, with, shockingly, 3G. So yeah, that web browser that actually worked did actually work. Sure, it was slow compared with today’s speeds, but giving peop
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by JimDabell 4mo ago
The very first web browser that ever existed – WorldWideWeb – had a WYSIWYG editor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWeb
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by JimDabell 4mo ago
Very little of this rings true for me, but that part worst of all. The mobile web pre-iPhone was terrible. Nobody used it, nobody wanted to use it, and nobody wanted to build it. At best there was a shitty cut back version on the `m` subdom
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by JimDabell 4mo ago
That was it for me as well. For it to be able to produce coherent, useful results for arbitrary text and code, even as mere autocomplete, was when practical software intelligence crossed the line from a vague “might happen at some arbitrary
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by JimDabell 4mo ago
Contrast a human user with a naïve bot implementation when they come across an SPA. The human user will load the HTML once then fetch plenty of JSON as they use it. The bot will fetch the HTML and move on. If you filter by HTML only, then a
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by JimDabell 4mo ago
> It looks to me like the data supports "bots passed human traffic" I think you are missing the fact that the dashboard has HTML pre-selected as a filter. Once you change that to all content types, you’ll see humans account for
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by JimDabell 4mo ago
> I had no idea that typing an em dash is difficult overseas. It’s not. On Apple platforms, you can type two hyphens in a row and let the default text replacement convert it; or you can hold down the hyphen and pick from hyphen, en dash,
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by JimDabell 4mo ago
Putting it in .well-known/ was immediately raised as an issue from the beginning; it’s issue #2 in fact: https://github.com/AnswerDotAI/llms-txt/issues/2 It’s been completely ignored ever since.
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by JimDabell 4mo ago
> To be fair, a lot of the "people" talking to the engagement baiting AI are AI commenters themselves. This is true, but there’s a huge amount of real engagement as well. > But you don't need to "head over to Reddi
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by JimDabell 4mo ago
I’ve seen it a bit here as well of course, but generally speaking Hacker News does a much better job of avoiding that. I think it might just be because it’s more sensitive to flagging.
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by JimDabell 4mo ago
It clearly was what they were saying: > even if it’s filled with mistakes
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by JimDabell 4mo ago
Who is “we”? Head over to Reddit and you will see that plenty of people do not notice even the most obvious AI-generated engagement bait and happily spend their time talking to it. Even the people that post about how awful AI is will chat a
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by JimDabell 4mo ago
> They never come from Google, and the bad programmed ones just crawl several pages at a time, faster than a user could do. I’ve triggered this kind of “bot protection” right here on Hacker News many times. I did that by having a bunch o

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