danjac

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by danjac 5y ago
It's not really about "innovation", it's about fooling investors, customers and employees/gig workers for as long as possible until economic, technological or legal reality catches up with you. See: WeWork, Uber, et
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by danjac 5y ago
It's not something that's confined to design/UX though. Bring in a new CTO/tech lead and they'll tell you the current architecture is outdated or the code is spaghetti and needs a rewrite in [insert architecture&#x2
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by danjac 5y ago
> Most XML-based standards from that era seems to suffer from the disease of wanting to capture every possible use case, with the result of being so general purpose and configurable that they end up being almost meaningless Thankfully w
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by danjac 5y ago
> That Star Trek trope of "everything in the Universe is just like us with different faces" really needs to be put to rest. Budget constraints aside, Star Trek aliens were used as a prop to explore extremes of terrestrial human
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by danjac 5y ago
I'll bet you could pick up a random op-ed from a 1960s Readers' Digest and someone would be making the argument that Americans spend too much time watching TV and pouring their creative energies into advertising, cosmetics and pop
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by danjac 5y ago
There's probably not a single one-size-fits-all solution - what works for FAANG and their millions of applicants is lunacy when you're a three-person startup, much like adopting Kubernetes to run an internal web app with half a do
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by danjac 5y ago
The problem of a probationary period is that it pushes all the risk to the employee. While I agree interviewing has gotten ridiculous with all the leetcoding and ten rounds of interviews and FAANG cargo-culting and whatnot, one small advant
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by danjac 5y ago
If you are using the git plugin with oh-my-zsh you can type "gsw" and "grs" for "git switch" and "git restore" respectively.
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by danjac 5y ago
"Apple has too much control over the web, so let's build native apps in Apple's walled garden" is not exactly the most persuasive argument.
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by danjac 5y ago
The problem is when some people are managers and get to decide and some people are not.
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by danjac 5y ago
That's not resume driven development though, that's picking the best tool for the job when you've outgrown the current solution.
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by danjac 5y ago
It tends to happen with startups I think because developers know the startup is likely not going to be around for long, or they will move on in a couple years anyway. So why not shoehorn whatever tech you want and have that skill in your re
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by danjac 5y ago
One prediction: there will be a Steam Deck 2, but we'll never see a Steam Deck 3.
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by danjac 5y ago
I generally use "services" when there's a glob of logic that works with a number of models and other things. For example, you might have some order checkout logic that has to write to a number of database tables, send email a
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by danjac 5y ago
Can't speak for others, but in my own & work projects I'll use containers (not just for Python but other dependencies). That gives me the isolation I need (e.g. if I need to use a different Python version and/or set of li
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by danjac 5y ago
At least the inhabitants of Airstrip One didn't have to suffer from outrageous prices for food and idiot rich college kids and "influencers" slumming it for a weekend.
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by danjac 5y ago
We can push back by publicly shaming bad actors and ensuring they go to the back of the queue along with the firms with psychopathic interview processes when it comes to choosing tech talent at a time of high demand. Unionising would probab
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by danjac 5y ago
Forget automated tests; this is something the most cursory QA would have caught. The fact that they evidently have neither is a reflection not of technical ability but plain neglect.
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by danjac 5y ago
Or you might fail and end up bankrupt and no medical insurance and a bad debt record and dooming your family to penury. "Cut out for it" means you have a trust fund, rich parents, no financial obligations, and/or the right co
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by danjac 5y ago
What I don't understand is what is Lee's motivation for doing this? He'll just end up in charge of a bunch of dead channels with all the staff and communities gone. I don't see a profit motive - is it pure vandalism?
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by danjac 5y ago
AWS is increasingly a standard that people need to learn to get employment, and the risk of a huge bill because you have misconfigured something somewhere will put off a lot of people, particularly students, from learning it in their spare
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by danjac 5y ago
OK, but I'd rather not have to make a panicked call to AWS customer service and throw myself at their mercy just so I can do some coding in my free time, thanks. And think about how that applies to some student at college or boot camp
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by danjac 5y ago
You hear horror stories of students/hobbyists playing around with AWS Lambda or some other service and ending up with huge bills. Maybe they get resolved but I certainly don't want to deal with the panic of misconfiguring some set
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by danjac 5y ago
Page 404s. A bit like a British rail scheduled service.
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by danjac 5y ago
> significant organisations in finance/wealth management (our general area) I can have some sympathy to support IE for some cash-strapped local government department struggling to keep their old systems running with duck tape and p
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by danjac 5y ago
IE + Java applets? Who were you defending? The Carthaginians?
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by danjac 5y ago
> In the hotwire world, the encouraged approach would be to already have the html in the dom, and use a stimulus controller to show or hide it You could also use a turbo-frame here: the modal might contain data that could be expensive to
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by danjac 5y ago
Not sure I'd spend a lot of money on a deathtrap whose entire purpose is to recreate a Victorian method of corporal punishment.
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by danjac 5y ago
I've used it (as side project) for a fairly interactive application ( https://audiotrails.io ). I'm also in the middle of rewriting it with htmx, which offers more features & a larger mindshare/future outside of
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by danjac 5y ago
The thing is, it's not that Basecamp is apolitical. Politics is fine if it's the founders doing the politics. DHH has been very vocal in the last few months in public tirades against Apple, government lobbying, etc. While he has

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