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by bnchrch 11mo ago
Absolutely is. Modern OOP (not the original OOP by Alan Kay) is a human anti pattern. It commits the cardinal sin to easy to understand systems: It hides state, and breaks data lineage. In otherwords: 1. You cannot just go back up the stack
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by bnchrch 11mo ago
If we maintain this trajectory Gemini is going to have as many dual meanings in the software world as Map.
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by bnchrch 11mo ago
If you check my comments Im a routine critic of Apple. Specifically its mis-management of Siri. But, in my mind, Tim Cook is also responsible for the only exceptional qualities of Apple. Namely its production of the M series chips and the V
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by bnchrch 11mo ago
Hmm let me think back... ----- Apple Homepod ----- Bought it years ago since i was in the Apple ecosystem and I wanted an easy way to play music, set timers and add items to my grocery/reminder list. I also knew state of the art in LLM
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by bnchrch 11mo ago
Zoning on average is a blight. Industrial / High Rise is the only thing that should need permitting. Fourplex / Duplex / Single Family / Small Offices / Schools should not.
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by bnchrch 11mo ago
Today I asked to my homepod: > "Hey Siri, whens the next Formula 1 race in Montreal" and she responds with the same infuriating answer I typically get > "Hmm, I found some interesting results on the web, I can show them
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Vibesdk: Cloudflare's open source AI-coding app toolkit(github.com)
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Show HN: wt a tool to help quickly manage git worktrees
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by bnchrch 1y ago
I love the message, and generally agree. Theres a layer of pessimism to engineers and hacker news that has been steadily growing (as I assume the average age increases). To me it's hit a critical level and I have to disregard most nega
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by bnchrch 1y ago
Could not have said this better myself, so let me just add a little extra. It works. Its polished. It’s ubiquitous. But most importantly. I don’t have to think about it. My 9-5 is deeply considering trade offs, configurations and debugging
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by bnchrch 1y ago
While you might be right. It seems like you didn't notice this was about React Native, the cross platform mobile app framework. So "just write plain html" isn't a valid alternative unless you want to write a Progressive
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by bnchrch 1y ago
I've seen these critiques for years. and while its not necessarily wrong, I believe it under weights a few points: - Fixing your housing costs against inflation: You can't count on housing price increases, but you can count on inf
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by bnchrch 1y ago
> The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise > - Socrates (399 BC) > The world is passing through troublous times. The young pe
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by bnchrch 1y ago
Good god. Not everything has to be about your opinion on AI.
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by bnchrch 1y ago
In the past I used to get excited for any rum or, teaser or upcoming release. However, in this apple era I can’t. Why? Because I can’t count on them to deliver. The M series chips, and air pods have been a smashing success. But the fact tha
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by bnchrch 1y ago
You do realize your talking to the creator of Django, Datassette, and Lanyrd right?
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by bnchrch 1y ago
My honest advice? Don't bother with the things you can't control or don't matter. Whether or not someone is using your data is one of them.
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by bnchrch 1y ago
I can share my experience as a canadian who's been working remotely for US companies since 2016. Typically I would either find a warm intro from a past colleague, or I would specifically find someone involved in the hiring pipeline at
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by bnchrch 1y ago
I think your suffering from the same thing that makes 2014 feel like 5 years ago when its over a decade ago. The framework landscape has remained relatively entrenched in React since 2016. Sure theres a few new ones time to time but nothing
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by bnchrch 1y ago
Don't forget its transitive dependencies creating non-deterministic builds
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by bnchrch 1y ago
Thank you! For years Ive been saying the sheer volume and fury by which Javascript is criticized is much more applicable to Python. Both aren't perfect languages, and both are far from "the best" but it is maddening that Pyth
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by bnchrch 1y ago
No for three reasons. One, lets be honest, hn wont do it, part of their secret sauce is that they don't change, and they know that. Two, fragmenting the community would just reduce engagement and risk making both feel like a ghost town
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by bnchrch 1y ago
Now Phoenix and Elixir are two technologies I love! But theyre admin offering is lacking. (Which is ok today in modern development and things like pgadmin)
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by bnchrch 1y ago
Same way I can hate the drivetrain of a car but love the interior! They're separate systems that co-habitate. Specifically for python vs django, most of the things I dont like are actually attributable to decisions by the python team,
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by bnchrch 1y ago
As someone today who is an unrelenting critic of python. I have to say thank you to Simon and the Django community as a whole. Its a wonderful "batteries included" framework that has launched many successful projects, companies, a
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by bnchrch 1y ago
Im always hunting for someone whos solved "sandboxing" because setting it up myself is so damn painful. Anyone ever find a good product in this space? Beam seems close, but not quite
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by bnchrch 1y ago
Did you just say "discoverability" is an issue with GraphQL with a straight face? There are plenty of valid criticisms, but that is not one, in fact thats where it shines.
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by bnchrch 1y ago
Heres a few: https://layerzero.network/ https://1password.com/ https://www.wealthsimple.com/ https://floatcard.com https://www.postgrid.com https://www.da
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by bnchrch 1y ago
No, but one thing is certain, in large human systems you can only redirect greed, you can't stop it.
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by bnchrch 1y ago
The biggest knock against pagerduty is its both expensive and doesnt have simple features like connecting Pagerduty schedules to slack user groups. For example if I want to have a slack group that pings (not pages) to current oncall person

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