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by blurker 5y ago
Yeah. Mistakes are going to happen and what really separates the good companies from the bad ones is how they deal with those mistakes. This seems to be a good example (for the reasons you stated). I have seen plenty of incident reports fro
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by blurker 5y ago
I have found firebase to be a pretty good provider if you want something to get going quickly with. There are lots of others too, but it's probably got one of the more generous free tiers. But something to beware of is potential lock-i
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by blurker 5y ago
To be fair, I think you're probably right. But, that doesn't make the article any more right to me. The argument wasn't that local storage is no longer a good choice, but that it's always a bad choice. Or at least that&
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by blurker 5y ago
Yes, exactly. Having to have the backend infrastructure adds a lot of costs. For some of my apps that I've been building with local storage, I've considered adding a paid sync feature in the future if I ever launch anything that g
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by blurker 5y ago
Well said - much more succinctly put than my own response. > it's a set of tradeoffs that didn't land the way OP would prefer, but that doesn't make it universally wrong. That's really the heart of the issue for me. T
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by blurker 5y ago
Oh, you're totally right. I don't know how I misunderstood that sandstorm platform as being their game. Thanks for the correction!
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by blurker 5y ago
I kinda got the feeling that this article was mainly written to take advantage of the Wordle hype. Overall I didn't get much of substance and I felt that the main takeaway was disingenuous to what the goals of the developer were. As if
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by blurker 5y ago
haha, I found this funny and accurate. It captures what I feel is common among the toxic responses that make it past moderation/downvotes. HN has an acceptable way to say "#$!@ your ideas" and "I'm smarter" usi
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by blurker 5y ago
Shallow, and mean hot takes are also not in short supply (not implying that about your response btw). I think that HN has an admirable goal related to this as part of its guidelines: > Please don't post shallow dismissals, especiall
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by blurker 5y ago
I don't know, I think there are all sorts of things that can influence our behavior, why not an online forum? A random example, in the past when my friend and I were doing some manual labour work in construction, some of our family fri
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by blurker 5y ago
Disclaimer: I am relatively new to HN, although I've lurked on-and-off for years. My impression so far largely aligns what the author is saying. I see a lot of comments along the lines of "so this is the internet, it's no wor
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by blurker 5y ago
I feel like I've experienced similar situations with post mortem and sprint retrospective processes. Sometimes shit goes wrong in a sort of unique way and people go too far with wanting to have the outcome always be "we will do X
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by blurker 5y ago
Yes exactly. A really good manager will recognize this and will not rely on simple heuristics to value people.
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by blurker 5y ago
Oof, please no. Simple metrics like LoC, story points and number of commits are lazy ways to evaluate developers. And people will recognize this so the metric becomes the goal. Might as well replace managers with a bot. Good managers should
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by blurker 5y ago
Haha yeah. Well, I did say *should*, but I actually meant it as a joke. Definitely not something I take for granted :)
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by blurker 5y ago
Not disagreeing but just pointing out that I felt the author also said this: > Fixing these is great but your friends (let’s hope) don’t want to hurt your feelings. This makes it almost impossible to get them to say things like, “your jo
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by blurker 5y ago
I found this to be very insightful. A good read for anyone wanting to do better at putting their ideas out there (aka me). Sometimes I consider not reading any comments / online feedback, but I think this article makes a good argument
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by blurker 5y ago
I appreciate your polite and thoughtful response :) That being said, I don't really feel convinced that there is a difference. I think that just as open source software doesn't solve every need, the same goes with art and there wi
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by blurker 5y ago
While I do have some experience, that's not really that relevant. I'm not saying this because of my own experience (which would be anecdotal evidence). It's based on actual market data, which is what is actually important for
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by blurker 5y ago
For me, sort of yes but also no. It's kind've a wash actually. As you pointed out, this type of design is so common it doesn't really make the site bad or good, just "normal." On the other hand, poorly done designs
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by blurker 5y ago
I'm curious, do you feel this way about open source software as well? Does it cheapen the value of being a developer? If not, why do you think art is different and why is open source art a bad thing?
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by blurker 5y ago
Actually I think you have it backwards. The notion that traders consistently beat the market is hurting a lot of people. There are extremely few traders who beat the market year over year. It becomes vanishingly fewer every year you add. Wh
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by blurker 5y ago
I've only skimmed the first few sections but so far I'm loving what I see! I just started learning Rust and have been going through "The Rust Programming Language" book. Now I'm tempted to switch to this. My favouri
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by blurker 5y ago
Some of the things that you can learn from reading this were: - More than one program can listen to the same port on the same IP address, depending on how things are initialised - Multiple IP's can be listened to for the same port - TC
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by blurker 5y ago
I get why you think it's silly. I'm pretty sure I thought that too when I first encountered it. But I think it makes sense and there is actually a way to support more than one but not wildcard. Multiple origin domains are support
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by blurker 5y ago
Actually, I agree with OP. Grandparent's phrasing: > All of this is completely wrong. Is not only needlessly argumentative but also wrong itself. The 3rd point they include as "completely wrong" is not wrong, and they end
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by blurker 5y ago
Yes that puts it really well and I agree. Too often I'll end up at a project where I'll still have little understanding of what it does or why it exists even after reading the readme. This project is super clear! But maybe that&#x
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by blurker 5y ago
I wish developers would put as much effort into honing their technical communication skills as they do pursuing the latest and greatest new framework or language. This is really good stuff and I wish it was a more common skill set. Whenever
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by blurker 5y ago
Can you provide a source or explain how you came to the conclusion that it is one of the most studied substances on the planet? Personally I'm not worried about aspartame. I consume it in small amounts and am not overly concerned, but
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by blurker 5y ago
I think so, this meta study https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28938797/ from 2017 seems to suggest that there are some possible negative effects and points out that most studies use animal models. Animal models are not c

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