curtisblaine

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by curtisblaine 4mo ago
> JavaScript is an imperative language that browser wars, framework trends, and open-source maintainer preferences reshaped every few years. It rewards you for keeping up. > Take a React component from 2015 Javascript is actually full
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by curtisblaine 5mo ago
And for the most part of this time period they weren't free.
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by curtisblaine 5mo ago
Nobody asked for free content. It was pushed on us so they could track us. Before the Internet, you normally paid for what you consumed (at least, more than now. And before that even more).
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by curtisblaine 5mo ago
> Author has incestual relationship in their family. Now I want to know in which culture this is used as a common insult.
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by curtisblaine 5mo ago
But that didn't happen in reality, did it? Clients - I don't see anyone delighted that apps are better, or cheaper, or more secure. If anything, I see more enshittification, more half-baked ideas and more fear that security is wor
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by curtisblaine 5mo ago
> - Significantly increased my productivity as a software engineer I don't understand this. It increased productivity of every developer in the western world, so it didn't really give you an advantage. Your output is more valua
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by curtisblaine 5mo ago
So, let's see. LLMs made my overall coding output significantly faster, even factoring in review time and tech debt. My employer should technically benefit from this, but it doesn't really, because all its competitors use the same
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by curtisblaine 5mo ago
I'm confused by the (frankly bad) documentation. It says that for pure js dependencies we need to use the v8 flag to bring in the runtime (which is undesirable), but what is the practical difference between a js file and the same file
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by curtisblaine 5mo ago
"strange" was apparently edited out of the title.
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by curtisblaine 5mo ago
React wins because it has a predictable interface that has become industry standard. Industry standard saves money. Not everything must be creative .
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by curtisblaine 5mo ago
I do. Reading React is an uniform experience across all the codebases. You know what state is, what an effect is, what a rendering function is and what it looks like. You also know where code smells are, there's a whole section of esli
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by curtisblaine 5mo ago
Mainly key/values
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by curtisblaine 5mo ago
When I try to do this kind of thing with y.js in a non-trivial way I always battle against two issues and ultimately quit because they're really hard to do efficiently: 1) Materializing documents. Assuming you don't have "liv
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by curtisblaine 5mo ago
Bots are using real tokens for this. So, ultimate honeypot idea: post heavily commented skeleton code in a github repo, promise a generous money reward for closing issues and never pay anyone. See the bots swarm and burn their tokens to wri
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by curtisblaine 5mo ago
This is cool, but a simple circular buffer audio recorder connected to stdin would have been sufficient. The recorder records continuously on a circular buffer that stores the last 5 minutes, and whenever OP wakes up, he can press any key o
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by curtisblaine 5mo ago
> - If you rely on / heavily use AI tools, you can easily use Claude's Web App etc so that's super cool but also things like Jan also exist for Linux and I haven't tried, but you can use that as well for a more native
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by curtisblaine 6mo ago
Please avoid comments with no real substance, written just to denigrate, with a throwaway account. They make discourse unnecessarily worse.
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by curtisblaine 6mo ago
I really hope that they think so and that they're wrong and they get burned hard. Them and all the AI labs that lied, stole, inflated, hoarded and tried to justify all this as an existential moment where AGI would radically change soci
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Ask HN: What sw do you dream about but don't have the time to code yourself?
1 points by curtisblaine 6mo ago|5 comments
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Grasp: A simple protocol for decentralized Git(gitgrasp.com)
5 points by curtisblaine 6mo ago|0 comments
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by curtisblaine 6mo ago
Real-real time meaning other people see your message as you type it? This is a feature that would actually discourage me from using the chat. Having to control how your message looks while you're typing it is added stress for the write
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by curtisblaine 6mo ago
Did they call this Copilot yet?
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by curtisblaine 6mo ago
This is the definition of cartel
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by curtisblaine 6mo ago
They're trying to find every way to enshittify their partially unprofitable service. When they find a way that sticks, they'll go with it. This has become the preferred way of doing tech business in the US. Create a great thing, g
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by curtisblaine 6mo ago
I have good news: all that you mention is still available and ready for you to use! It has not been deprecated in any form and as far as I know it has not been made illegal. If, instead, you wanted to say "can everyone please use the t
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by curtisblaine 6mo ago
The big problem starts when your job contract limits what you can do with your intellectual property. Then you can have. your shed, but you can't show it to anyone, you can't invite friends, you can't use to plan your future
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by curtisblaine 7mo ago
AI is not a person; it has no rights. We can discuss if AI should have the permission of saying no to users, not the right . That said, the title is completely clickbaity: no such question is asked in the article.
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by curtisblaine 7mo ago
The problem is not blocking social media for under 15. It might even make sense. The problem is that the burden of age proof is on on every user over 15.
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by curtisblaine 7mo ago
I'm sure Word is full of arcane backwards compatible tricks that 20% of users use, but I find it hard to differentiate the Pareto 80% of the product from Google Docs or any other competitor (LibreOffice?) Adding rich text, tables, head
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by curtisblaine 7mo ago
They didn't. What happened is that one of them (Johnny) was a staunch conservative, so, like Sex Pistols with Johnny Rotten, they are routinely "cancelled" from the punk scene (e.g. they are not real punk, their music sucks e

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