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by dzonga 2mo ago
you're one of the lucky ones. usually in most when engineers tend to create their own tickets - it's for useless shit like improve x, clean up y etc. very few people have worked in places with high agency - where you work with a h
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by dzonga 2mo ago
pretty good presentation. my take is everyone in the industry should read grog-brained developer, & no silver bullet before working as a professional. the other is a mindset change - the best working code is code that's never writt
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by dzonga 2mo ago
seems the big phone makers are going with the phone-2-tablet fold. very few have gone with the ultra portable and pragmatic fold like razr-ultra. hopefully apple comes out with a razr-ultra like fold.
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by dzonga 2mo ago
you gotta admire the power of using json/b and simple KV stores. so many people sleep on that.
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everyone's anger is warranted. does CTFC have mandate to enforce things nationally - yeah. Does NY have a mandate to stop thing nationwide NO. however the murkiness with the whole thing is about corruption and having friends, sons of t
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I look at people spewing propaganda of let agents go wild when building stuff forgetting when building stuff - 'the moat was building the right thing' not building the wrong thing really quickly.
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by dzonga 2mo ago
the tragedy is 'mainstreet' runs on Facebook. not shitter, google but fb. some local business don't even have their own sites but maintain an insta / fb page.
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by dzonga 2mo ago
Go wins for simplicity. however what I have seen is companies end up going with Java coz it's simple enough - not simple as Go, but simple enough + fast enough. though the letdown with Java is the wider ecosystem that makes unwarranted
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by dzonga 2mo ago
Nvidia has been playing a dangerous but profitable game since the Crypto boom. but now I think they probably have bitten more than they can chew. Apple already proved with their unified memory - that as long you have the capacity you can ru
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by dzonga 2mo ago
how I handle this - if I find an interesting web page - I save to pdf & save to my external sdd. ideally I should get one of the 8tb HDD to save material I see on the web. coz yeah good quality material is disappearing on the web fast.
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by dzonga 2mo ago
technically web apps should be light as air. but complexity merchants make them weight as much as the sun.
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by dzonga 2mo ago
2006 programmers - smooth brained - they don't understand now you can just have an 'agent' code for you using piles of JS and massive dependencies. if the app breaks then the agent can fix it for you.
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by dzonga 2mo ago
I think in the future more cases of Alzheimer's are gonna be present e.g with the potent use of marijuana that's present these days, excess drinking & lack of reading + dumbing down of population via use of llms.
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by dzonga 2mo ago
Poland has made a lot of good moves lately. for techies in the UK/US they might not care that much - but there's also an effect on you. in the U.K - a polish skilled workers are choosing to remaining in Poland instead of moving to
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by dzonga 2mo ago
the impact of recursivedoubts i.e htmx creator on software engineering practices and adhering to simplicity is monumental but the industry keeps heading towards complexity.
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by dzonga 2mo ago
imagine if these guys were able to be pragmatic and reform like the Chinese deed & not be so dogmatic about ideology - what they could've been. I guess Deng Xioping said it best - "I don't care if the cat is black, white
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by dzonga 2mo ago
I just learnt about Virtual Power Plants using big batteries i.e 40Kwh+ - so yeah that could work.
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by dzonga 2mo ago
good question ? I worry about that too since I'm from a poor/shit country that I travel to constantly & live for half the time !!
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by dzonga 2mo ago
blocking by geo yeah might work - but what happens when someone is traveling abroad ? they've to use a VPN to access your site ? my take with all the bots - the web is gonna be a bunch of private walled gardens. with most sites set to
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by dzonga 2mo ago
which book was that ?
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by dzonga 2mo ago
everyone on this board - is now aware the US gvt is working against your interest unless you're sama & crew. invest in your own solar, or other forms of renewable energy - get an ev.
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by dzonga 2mo ago
hope u see this :) https://imgur.com/a/wy2fLEw
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by dzonga 2mo ago
> 3) You actually implement the solution. even for an entrepreneur type - you need to understand the technology to get to good enough solution e.g if you don't know shit & just accepted what the llm gave you - u might end up wit
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by dzonga 2mo ago
there's something equivalent in the business world - mostly used by businesses not run by psychopaths - where you optimize inside 2 triangles with the points on the triangle being cost, profit, & user utility/happiness.
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by dzonga 2mo ago
b2b - so I use the phone or email. I try avoid email at first, since most cold emails can be 'spammy'.
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by dzonga 2mo ago
also Rails largely sits in a world where most apps are CRUD based or everything is CRUD e.g [0] - which for that purpose Rails has nice ergonomics. whereas Django though it also provides almost similar abstractions in terms of CRUD - it doe
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by dzonga 2mo ago
look at litestar [0] - if you want something more coherent than fast api [0]: https://litestar.dev
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by dzonga 2mo ago
I'm not talking about democracy - but a 'permission' system. In the west - you've to be 'blessed' to become an economic player - there's the myth of competition (but someone has to bless that competition)
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Ryan & the Deno team thanks for this. not that I'm going to use it anytime soon - but yeah having durable objects outside Cloudflare and also self hosted ones means a lot.

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