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by blowski 2y ago
Sorry for taking that wrong. The fanboy logic can be so ridiculous at times that it's really hard to tell.
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by blowski 2y ago
I honestly struggle to tell these days.
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by blowski 2y ago
> Do you really think Elon would just surround himself with yes men that implement stupid ideas just because he thinks it "looks cool"? Yes, I suspect a lot of us do think exactly that.
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by blowski 2y ago
Reminds me of https://www.reddit.com/r/keming/
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by blowski 2y ago
Is it easier to build a layout with CSS compared to 20 years ago? Yes. Can we further improve CSS? Yes.
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by blowski 2y ago
Similar to how software engineers get paid $1000s just to keep hitting the keyboard.
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by blowski 2y ago
True, which is perhaps why it's unclear what the difference is between a "skinny waist" and hexagonal architecture, "ports and adapters".
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by blowski 2y ago
I agree with the general ethos - good code doesn't get written by attending meetings all day, or fiddling with org mode. But like all advice, it needs caveats. If you're on a brownfield project where you have very little knowledge
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by blowski 2y ago
If I’ve understood then, a narrow waist architecture follows two principles: - code to an interface not an implementation - segregate interfaces, don’t overload them with responsibilities
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by blowski 2y ago
A comment from a previous discussion of this post is still true for me: > The text tries to introduce the idea of a “narrow waist” as an architecture pattern. But I don’t fully understand how the author distinguishes this concept from si
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by blowski 2y ago
This whole topic is as interesting as "tabs vs spaces" or "emacs vs vim". There's a vocal minority of people that want to tell everybody else how the web should work, and everybody has ignored them for the last 20 y
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by blowski 2y ago
Michel Houellebecq observes that a beautiful girl in her 20s will be confused in her 30s at the paucity of men holding doors open for her.
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by blowski 2y ago
Getting To Yes by Roger Fisher and William Ury.
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by blowski 2y ago
I've tried using tags, but the effort isn't worth it for me. Between search, occasional housekeeping, and a decent folder structure I have everything I need without being coupled to Apple.
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by blowski 2y ago
I would prefer the market to be exerting that pressure. But big tech has done such a good job of erecting barriers to entry, while governmetns have done such a bad job of anti-monopoly regulation, that steps like this are now necessary.
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by blowski 2y ago
The "What If?" books by Randall Munroe (of XKCD fame) cover topics like this with that kind of thought process.
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by blowski 2y ago
Gosh, you're right. Assuming: - 5,250 can stand front to back - 3,500 side-by-side - 750 on top of each other That's more than 13 billion humans you could fit in said cube.
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by blowski 2y ago
I just learned this is _that_ Betteridge > Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by blowski 2y ago
The demands on UX and UI have fast outpaced the ability of designers and their software to deliver on it. As new requirements come along, we are forced to make different trade-offs to those we made in the past, and perhaps that leaves those
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by blowski 2y ago
TIL - All humans stood on top of each other would be significantly taller than the diameter of the Sun.
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by blowski 2y ago
Do those factors also affect how much volume you need?
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by blowski 2y ago
In the UK at least there are house clearance companies who do exactly this, typically after a death. They first look over the entire contents of the house, then buy it from you and either sell it on or dispose of it.
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by blowski 2y ago
Up to IE7, non-standard elements couldn't be styled without a shiv.
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by blowski 2y ago
What year was that? The custom tags thing used to have a lot more problems than it does now.
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by blowski 2y ago
I don't really know much about this area of UI. Can you explain why this breaks accessibility? I did load it in reader mode (macOS Safari), and there were no paragraph breaks - is that similar to the experience of a screen reader?
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by blowski 2y ago
In the true HN spirit, I have a little script goes through the Hacker News API and shows them as an RSS feed. But if you'd rather use something off-the-shelf there's https://hnrss.org/submitted?id=synergy20
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by blowski 2y ago
Also https://flowbite.com/ (and I'm also not affiliated).
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by blowski 2y ago
I'd suggest going through https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders and looking at their submission history.
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by blowski 2y ago
I really enjoy writing code, especially when learning something new, or feeling mastery over what I already know. JetBrains IDEs help with that a lot and I genuinely love it. Claude or ChatGPT let me bash out my frustrations. But, honestly,
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by blowski 2y ago
Simplicity bias, kind of like "bikeshedding". A large number of people can read this quickly, agree with it, and upvote it. Whereas articles about optimising machine code for the Apple Silicon CPU, or "Risks to the Glen Canyo

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