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by bartread 5mo ago
Quality matters as well as speed though: reworking comes at a cost, so you really need to be tracking more than one metric. A lot of problems are caused by optimising for one metric above all else.
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by bartread 5mo ago
I know 4 people who’ve worked for them, two on the same team, one who’s moved around various offices over a long period of time, and one who used to work for me but left to go there (and with the offer they were made I absolutely don’t blam
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by bartread 5mo ago
I always thought the 3DO was good hardware, for 1993, let down by a high price (especially by 1993 standards) and a poor library of games: there just wasn’t a good incentive to buy the thing. Fast forward a couple of years and the PlayStat
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by bartread 5mo ago
When I went to a grad jobs fair in 1998 or so IBM were offering at least 25% less than any other company I spoke to, and 40% less than the best paying roles. The only company they were on par with was Arthur Andersen, who were offering arou
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by bartread 5mo ago
On one level, I can't figure out how bent out of shape to get over this (but read on). Software I use downloads updates all the time, adds new features all the time, and I mostly don't ask for any of it. So if you see this as just
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by bartread 5mo ago
But you can trivially easily run Notepad++ on Mac using Wine. It works flawlessly. Nobody is keeping anything from anybody.
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by bartread 5mo ago
> I think the only real way to run Office is on Windows in VirtualBox I think you’re right, but I just don’t want to run full Windows because it’s such a resource hog. It’s always chewing CPU for some background task or other, and so it
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by bartread 5mo ago
I've never managed to get MS Office running successfully on Wine, at least not any recent version of it anyway. That might work fine on Linux but it doesn't get past the first handful of pages of the installer on macOS. It's
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by bartread 5mo ago
> I wanted is to bring Notepad++ to mac and allow people to find Mac version of Notepad++ quickly and use it. Seems he’s ignorant of the ecosystem too (or possibly disingenuous, or maybe doesn’t realise he’s done something wrong or why).
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by bartread 5mo ago
I tend to think of it as like two pilots as on commercial airliners: you always have one pilot flying and one pilot monitoring. You can debate with agentic coding who is monitoring and who is flying but, if we assume the user is monitoring
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by bartread 5mo ago
Yeah, I noticed some TUI libraries in npm when I was working on a Typescript project a couple of years back so I'm sure people are doing it.
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by bartread 5mo ago
> look like l33t h4xx0rs even though we're just pressing continue 15 times I feel seen. I also think there’s a certain element of reacting against absolutely everything becoming a bloated electron app. I have no doubt - if it hasn’t
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by bartread 5mo ago
That’s not really true: it just didn’t win on the merits you care about. But it did have other merits: backwards and forwards compatibility, excellent developer documentation, and no need for expensive workstation grade hardware. I don’t
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by bartread 5mo ago
> I wanted to give an update on GitHub’s availability in light of two recent incidents . [Emphasis mine] Vlad, you are living in a very different world to me. GitHub has suffered dozens and dozens of outages since the beginning of the
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by bartread 5mo ago
Yeah, but the copyleft makes anything they build around it a derivative work that they also have to release sources for - especially with AGPL. Most don’t want to do that because that’s where their IP lives. Not all open source licenses are
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by bartread 5mo ago
It’s the case because English is wildly more expressive than many commonly used programming languages. And especially when you take into account the mess of front end web development and tooling.
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by bartread 5mo ago
Does AI remove all struggle? I would credit my relative success (compared with many complaints I’ve read) at building software using AI as a helper to the fact that I’ve already solved the problem in my mind before I prompt the AI, and I te
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by bartread 5mo ago
Don’t forget parasitic. A lot of the value of these domains stems from the popularity of sites they may have been attached to in the past, or search terms that relate to them. So these people are literally making money off of the back of ot
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by bartread 5mo ago
You could dual license as well, so it’s GPL or AGPL for personal, OSS, or academic use, but requires a paid for commercial license for commercial use. I suggest GPL or AGPL because their copyleft clauses make them hostile towards platform p
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by bartread 6mo ago
Slint? Interesting: I will have to investigate.
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by bartread 6mo ago
I believe use of Electron is known as premature deoptimisation and if it had been a thing when Knuth coined the original phrase I'm sure he would have come up with that term too. Use of Electron to deliver software is popular and works
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by bartread 6mo ago
That's a good idea because, although I love this, 1 minute per token is absolutely savage. Whereas if you can juice the performance you're into semi-credible Jar Jar Binks simulator territory. It does also make me wonder what you
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by bartread 6mo ago
I don't know if I'd go so far as to call it "manchild" territory: hobbies are fine, and if your hobby is DIY mechanical keyboards, more power to you. Where I start to break out the scepticism is when people start talking
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by bartread 6mo ago
Computer Shopper in the UK was a lot like that back in the 80s and 90s: just a massive wedge of a magazine where the vast majority of pages were ads. The classified/small ads section alone was enormous. And then you’d have companies th
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by bartread 6mo ago
Not impossible to do: they can hedge and/or absorb the cost, hence the premium. They usually also specify a (fairly large) minimum distance for such stops.
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by bartread 6mo ago
Sure, but 80 -> 28,000 -> 54,000 is a hell of a lot of slippage. Trading platforms can guarantee a maximum slippage on stops, and often even offer guaranteed stops (with an attached premium), so I don’t see why Google and Firebase can
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by bartread 6mo ago
I assume this is not going to negatively impact well behaved use of the History API to facilitate back/forward navigation within SPAs?
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by bartread 6mo ago
This must negatively impact a huge number of businesses. Is there no move for them to all get together to take legal action against LaLiga to stop them doing this?
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by bartread 6mo ago
> Because they already control your government Whose government?
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by bartread 6mo ago
Oh, come on, be serious: if that’s the argument then why start with Sam Altman? If you want to hold the leader of a contemporary tech giant responsible for causing excess deaths then Meta and Zuckerberg would be a lot higher up the list - m

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