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by d357r0y3r 3y ago
Anecdotally, it seems like a lot of Yarn adoption is still suck on 1.22.x. Migrating to 2+ appears to be untenable for many teams. I understand that Yarn 2 is essentially a new tool, as there are certain features you simply can't ship
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by d357r0y3r 3y ago
Stack Overflow is really a relic of the past at this point. Libraries and tools change so fast these days, I almost never find what I need on SO. You've got to go into Github issues, get in a discord, or go to some other source to actu
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by d357r0y3r 3y ago
So, boomers bad, millenials good. I don't know. Maybe the situation is a little more nuanced, and not every boomer was able to get rich. My boomer parents couldn't dream of making the money I've made in tech. They can't
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by d357r0y3r 3y ago
The average HN user has some idea of what is simple and intuitive. This has very little to do with what the average non-technical web user thinks or feels. I've made many decisions in my career that boiled down to: we're not going
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by d357r0y3r 3y ago
Playing games, including video games, often involves reading, imagination, creativity, problem solving, and other active tasks. Passive video consumption certainly involves less of all those things. Obviously, there is a lot of variance her
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by d357r0y3r 3y ago
Yeah, it's this. It's not that tough to keep up with FE. React has been dominant for closing in on 10 years now. ~2015 was probably peak framework fatigue. If you left the industry in 2016 and came back now, you could probably get
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by d357r0y3r 3y ago
Attitudes like what? How do you build Figma using "semantic HTML"? Everyone likes the idea of keeping things simple and using web native constructs. The problem is that web native constructs can't do the things people them to
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by d357r0y3r 3y ago
I think if the web apps we were working on were marketing landing pages, you'd be right. For any real application that software engineers are hired to work on, "learning HTML" would do very little. Most high-level front-end e
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by d357r0y3r 3y ago
It feels like people use these editors for the novelty of it and not because it's truly the best for productivity.
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by d357r0y3r 4y ago
I think status is our main currency as human beings. All that really matters is what others think of us. The main thing you have to figure out is _which_ status hierarchy you want to compete in, not _if_ you want to compete in a status hier
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by d357r0y3r 4y ago
GPT-4 can write code, but it can't build software. Well...it could build software if humans gave it the right prompts. Coming up with the right prompts is difficult, because it means you're asking all the right questions. If you
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by d357r0y3r 4y ago
> How did you make small refactors for example? Easy, you don't. All code is write only, and if something does need to change, you simply insist on a rewrite and creating an even bigger mess than what existed before.
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by d357r0y3r 4y ago
I've seen the codebases created and maintained by people who "don't need types because it just slows me down." Hard pass.
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by d357r0y3r 4y ago
I've really come to resent any "smart" system that effectively makes a modern phone with data a requirement. Smart locks with no physical key, QR code based menus, etc - none of this should become a norm.
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by d357r0y3r 4y ago
All other things being held equal, a company choosing a longer exercise window says that they are employee-friendly in at least one respect. I know the conventional wisdom here is that options never matter, but the reality is that they some
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by d357r0y3r 5y ago
I think people do the "separate directory for tests" thing because test runners have, in the past, shipped with a default configuration to target a test directory, rather than match test files by suffix. Colocation of test files i
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by d357r0y3r 5y ago
The next logical extension of this is: "Front End Developers on Hackathons Are Not needed." After that, it's "UI/UX Prototype Designers on Hackathons Are Not Needed." If you want to turn your Hackathon into a P
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by d357r0y3r 5y ago
Back around 2012, I made 10k cash + stock that would eventually net me around 30k on a ~50 million acquisition. I had been at the company for less than a year. I was employee #50 or something. This sounds like a much better deal than anythi
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by d357r0y3r 5y ago
Take the money, max out 401k + after tax, save whatever you can after that, and get your fulfillment outside of work, just like the majority of other employees do. After a few years, you shouldn't need your FAANG job anymore. If you wa
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by d357r0y3r 6y ago
When I was in my early 20s, I saw the writing on the wall w.r.t hair loss. I decided then, if I'm going to be bald, I'm at least going to be jacked. And so I got jacked. 10+ years later, I buzz my head with a 1 guard once every we
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by d357r0y3r 6y ago
All of those policies were developed over time and required buy in over a long period of time. There is no timeline where the American public buys into the lockdowns that would be necessary in February 2020, which is when they would have ha
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by d357r0y3r 6y ago
So your evidence to support a global, state-enforced lockdown is one case in Sardinia from 450 years ago? If Trump had demanded a full lockdown in March like you're suggesting, it would have been opposed by everyone.
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by d357r0y3r 6y ago
If your policy depends on everyone doing the right thing, it's awful policy. Lockdowns have never been done in human history. They've never been possible, really; if there were no internet, it wouldn't even have been consider
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by d357r0y3r 6y ago
I can show you screenshots of tweets that are as bad or worse. The difference is that Twitter actually has built up, over time, the ability to moderate fairly well. The value of Twitter isn't really that you can post and view small sni
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by d357r0y3r 6y ago
There will always be a tiny number of people who won't allow JS, will use Linux as their desktop, etc. These people don't represent anyone's customer base and can be pretty much ignored on the basis that they are curmudgeonly
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by d357r0y3r 6y ago
I know we're in like, mystical "follow the science" land, but any study on this matter can really only make projections based on a model. It certainly can't say what Biden would have called a "reasonable response&qu
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by d357r0y3r 6y ago
I'm not sure if it was, really. What's the baseline? If Biden was President, how many people would have died instead? More than 0, right? The United States has structural issues, many of them features and not bugs, that make a coo
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by d357r0y3r 6y ago
> I want to agree with you, but: a company whose employees' lives must be subsidized by the taxpayer (because they aren't earning enough to live on from full-time wages) is a net economic negative to society. Err...is it? Some
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by d357r0y3r 6y ago
I'd make a distinction between medium to large cities and expensive cities. I don't think people want to move out to the country, but finding some balance between lifestyle and cost is a lot easier to do when you can pull a higher
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by d357r0y3r 6y ago
Right away? No, not in most cases. For future hires, how could it not? If high COL located companies starting going fully remote, it's a huge opportunity for workers in medium or low COL. For workers still determined to live in a high

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