Oddskar

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by Oddskar 5y ago
Couldn't the same thing largely be said about any major social network? Facebook isn't really a uniform community I would argue, nor is Whatsapp. Sure they have certain demographics that are larger than others and so on, but so do
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by Oddskar 5y ago
No mentions of https://github.com/jarun/nnn yet? I've really taken a shine to using a real file manager with lots of nifty features without any bloat.
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by Oddskar 6y ago
Windows feels to me like it's completely directionless at this point. From the outside it appears to be a large collection of teams that are not collaborating but doing their own thing in their corners. Some of the features they'v
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by Oddskar 6y ago
Wouldn't Observables be a lot better for this kind of use case? "The right tool for the right job" and all that jazz.
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by Oddskar 6y ago
HN is probably the only place that maintained its quality somewhat over the last 10 years for me. So many websites and subreddits blew up, grew too quickly, and burned out in quality. I think a lot can be attributed to strict moderation, bu
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by Oddskar 6y ago
It's added flavour, I think. Not every website has to be intuitive or hand people things on a silver platter.
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by Oddskar 6y ago
Providing a thorough answer to your question would require a lengthy article. It's a bit much of an ask to have someone do this for you on HN. But very briefly I would say that these are the benefits as I see it: * Access to improved t
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by Oddskar 6y ago
Not everything has to be done with machine learning you know.
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by Oddskar 6y ago
I squarely put this in the same compartment as "my code is self documenting". I've only seen management and devs who are less than stellar argue against having QAs.
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by Oddskar 6y ago
Because you can pretty easily add a layer on top to make it nicer (like JSX). And it has the benefit of working with e.g. Typescript and give you type safety out of the box, unlike Frameworks that have their own template systems.
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by Oddskar 6y ago
Maybe the non-engineers don't have much of a reference on what a better solution would look like.