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571.
by cageface 5y ago
Yep I've been using since some the beginning.
572.
by cageface 5y ago
I've been doing Rails for literally decades. I understand the magic but I still struggle to figure out what's going on in larger codebases. The amount of context you have to pull in to understand what a particular block of code is
573.
by cageface 5y ago
Sourceforge was also great in the beginning but slowly rotted from one bad monetization idea after another. I hope github doesn't go that way but I'm not optimistic.
574.
by cageface 5y ago
It’s Luddite in that it rejects modern tools and methods in the belief that there’s an older, more artisanal method of doing work. If you believe this is the case then you can put your belief to the test. Build software the way you think it
575.
by cageface 5y ago
This is because people don’t want to pay the cost of software carefully developed to take maximum advantage of modern hardware. In specific niches like audio production where this is desired then prices run into hundreds of dollars for a si
576.
by cageface 5y ago
The Luddite sentiment common among programmers today really surprises me. The software we’re building today is vastly more powerful and capable than anything from the C64 era.
577.
by cageface 5y ago
Newspapers and magazines have derived most of their revenue from ads since long before Google and Facebook. They're lucky to break even on subscription fees.
578.
by cageface 5y ago
Perhaps because I’ve lived in many parts of it?
579.
by cageface 5y ago
Oh really? In living there for over a decade I somehow hadn’t noticed.
580.
by cageface 5y ago
Yeah I've never been to mainland China. Traffic in Bangkok is also horrible but you can mostly avoid it if you live near a train station and plan your activities accordingly.
581.
by cageface 5y ago
I grew up in such a house and honestly now if you gave me the choice of that vs living in a nice condo in Tokyo, Bangkok or Singapore it wouldn't even be close.
582.
by cageface 5y ago
After living in Asia for the last several years where cities combine high density housing and good mass transit with door to door access to great shopping centers the US just looks comically dysfunctional to me. Who wants to spend hours eve
583.
by cageface 5y ago
I've felt for a while that a pay-to-post model with a straight chronological feed would solve a lot of the problems of today's social media. I toy with the idea of building it myself.
584.
by cageface 5y ago
I'm inclined to agree with you but the fact that people can now be trivially identified through face recognition in photos changes the considerations here a bit.
585.
by cageface 5y ago
So choose an ORM that lets you easily drop down to plain SQL in the rare cases where it's necessary and you get the best of both worlds.
586.
by cageface 5y ago
After working in nominally typed languages for years I’m finding Typescript’s approach to types very liberating. I think structural typing with the option of defining nominal types is a sweet spot in type ergonomics.
587.
by cageface 5y ago
Not only that but in a lot of countries network providers actually give away free data for certain preferred apps like Whatsapp so the financial incentive for people to keep using it is even stronger.
588.
by cageface 5y ago
My very first paid programming gig was doing Powerbuilder dev for a bank. IIRC it was basically a very rich data table widget with a scripting language wrapped around it.
589.
by cageface 5y ago
useEffect makes easy things easy and hard things very hard indeed. After building a few non trivial apps in React with hooks I'm convinced that what you really need for that model to work smoothly is a new language that tracks things l
590.
by cageface 5y ago
The point is mp3s and paid digital downloads specifically are not booming. Not many people seem interested in that version of ownership.
591.
by cageface 5y ago
Perl harbor was indeed a great tragedy.
592.
by cageface 5y ago
I'm not sure mp3s are a good example. Vinyl is booming because many people want a physically tangible medium and streaming services are otherwise teaching a generation that music isn't something worth owning.
593.
by cageface 5y ago
I’m not assuming they’re being frivolous I’m just trying to figure out the economics. There are loads and loads of restaurants everywhere.
594.
by cageface 5y ago
I was just in Italy the last few months and it's true that street food is cheap but normal restaurants are similar to US prices and those places were packed every night in every city I visited.
595.
by cageface 5y ago
I was just in Italy and it seemed like all the restaurants were packed every night. They're not cheap. How are people able to eat out so much in EU on these salaries?
596.
by cageface 5y ago
I've found Google asks for 2fa at pretty random times. I do travel a lot but still it happens at least once a month.
597.
by cageface 5y ago
Something like this is really going to be a challenge for them. Might be time to move them to fastmail.
598.
by cageface 5y ago
Yeah they can barely manage email. I've taught them how to forward email a dozen times but that's a bridge too far for them.
599.
by cageface 5y ago
My parents are low tech and don’t have cellphones. I guess they’re going to have to get a call on their landline now every time they have to 2fa?
600.
by cageface 5y ago
In a test tube.

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