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by dzonga 7mo ago
when GitHub moved to react instead of server rendered pages ie erb/turbolinks/pjax was the start to the end. the pages got slower, rendering became a nightmare. then they introduced GitHub actions (half baked) - again very unrelia
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by dzonga 7mo ago
unfortunately due to all this A.I noise we are drowning a lot of good things happening in tech specially around DBs migrating services is easier if your DB supports those things and is more oriented around AP now a lot of people just jump s
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by dzonga 7mo ago
why are common people paying for the incompetence of a gvt. to not be political this lies at the heart of principles, morals, meritocracy values that the current gvt lacks & things that drove america forward.
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by dzonga 7mo ago
again this is why there's less trust in science these days. there's lived reality vs what you wish reality was (lab conditions) some people do find relief in marijuana etc to treat pain, some people find relief in treating ptsd wi
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by dzonga 7mo ago
seems we are now in the age of asymmetrical warfare what it means for tech is something else entirely
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by dzonga 7mo ago
there was a startup I saw once here on HN selling driverless kits that could be added to general cars. if Waymo can do the same - then partner with insurance companies - they can easily be a $1 trillion dollar company even if they just redu
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by dzonga 7mo ago
some of the 'investors' use such as investments as tax-write offs
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by dzonga 7mo ago
You've to admire Next.js for bringing sanity to the JS (React) ecosystem by having one encompassing framework Also admire them for their Fire & Motion strategy (people always fixing their next.js apps whether its app router or what
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by dzonga 7mo ago
I think Japanese automakers by sticking to ICE vehicles have admitted defeat - that they no longer have the engineering prowess to compete. they dominated in the era of small engines. with EVs - the Chinese have run away with the stick &amp
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by dzonga 7mo ago
the people that work on Java & the JVM are very smart. it has become a best of breed language - hell its better than Go for industry purposes. the drawback with Java will always be the CULTURE - (maybe someone can insert a quote of how
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by dzonga 7mo ago
I'm not - clearly going against a superpower hell bent on destroying you and making you a colony hasn't exactly worked for them. I'm just pointing reality as it is - you can't force the US to change - it will remain impe
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by dzonga 7mo ago
lol, this is funny - probably the funniest thing I have seen all week. linkedIn cringe is its own universe. a mass hysteria event must have happened
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by dzonga 7mo ago
for anyone making sites - today don't be lazy - even if you need ads on your site there's a couple of server side setups which are just api calls and you just insert into the html without the javascript bloat example 'sponsor
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by dzonga 7mo ago
Cuba should've learned from China. Communism with Cuban characteristics. Then got energy independent-- by importing a lot of solar panels, wind turbines from China. then they wouldn't be suffering an energy embargo from the US. fo
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by dzonga 7mo ago
in the UK this is kinda the policy. however the bigger issue here - is this is a ruse - there is a reason quarterly reporting brought transparency to companies - now they can easily hide nasty things. you as an employee with stock options -
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by dzonga 7mo ago
I run a small data operation - mostly background jobs processing - with a small layer of CRUD stuff on top could be Django | Rails. I have found A.I to be good when given guard-rails e.g I can write the initial models & functions by ha
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by dzonga 7mo ago
this is the uncomfortable truth people are unwilling to accept. can democratic societies be corrupt, can autocratic societies be not corrupt this is also true. accept things as they're, not as they ought to be - one of the fundamental
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by dzonga 7mo ago
very apt analogy - same as your other one LLMs are similar to CNC machines. Given the state of AI (LLMs) - they still need a very human (skilled driver) to operate
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by dzonga 7mo ago
these are all symptoms - the larger problem is there's a lot of lonely men out there - specially in the small towns. these people probably know they're not talking to the real model, but want someone to talk to. someone insert Bla
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by dzonga 7mo ago
if the industry got rid of 98% of the managers - the industry's output would go up by 500x
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by dzonga 7mo ago
impact of A.I - reality vs hype reality - companies are choosing to spend money on CAPEX (i.e infrastructure things hoping that they can ride an uncertain wave into the future) and not spend on OPEX (humans) reality - AI agents are not doin
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by dzonga 7mo ago
this all just noise!! please approach marketing like a human being. i.e one marketing starts before selling - before you have a product if you adopt the 'indiehacker / influenzer' tactics outlined in that repo - you will star
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by dzonga 7mo ago
nor web engineers (backend) that are not doing standard crud work. I have seen these shine on frontend work
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by dzonga 8mo ago
The US via its military schools i.e West Point etc trains very capable and smart people. those people could work in private industry & make tons of money but they choose to work for the thankless work of defense now comes some very inco
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by dzonga 8mo ago
unless you a stressful day - with enough hydration - and decent sleep - you can command yourself to wake up without an alarm. anyone who has gone through boarding school, military etc knows this to be true.
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by dzonga 8mo ago
yeah given that HN audience might be mostly from 1st world countries in the 3rd world - north of Limpopo - and everywhere else - you discover soon that where you born is like being 60 points down with a 2 min warning and you're in your
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by dzonga 8mo ago
then we have companies that went the opposite way with the abomination called graphql
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by dzonga 8mo ago
Rails for straight up CRUD is top, autogenerated things etc however if your app doesn't fit the standard crud pattern you end just fiddling with a lot of things that you shouldn't and in that case I recommend Django which provides
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by dzonga 8mo ago
>> Oracle is the only one using debt to build the data center Stargate is backed by the US gvt hence why they're comfortable to put that under debt financing
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Florida Temporary Ban on H1B in State Universities(reuters.com)
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