elktown

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by elktown 5mo ago
I think it’s just a corporate rug pull. Anthropic’s needs are the sole priority, all others be damned.
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by elktown 5mo ago
Aha, it's public. That explains the inflated employee count. Same story every time.
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by elktown 5mo ago
People are seriously naive about corporate incentives. You think he'll go "Yeah, it being in Zig has put a wrench in our AI usage and that's not a good look now that we're with Anthropic"? No, he'll confirm e
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by elktown 5mo ago
That the incentives have changed after being bought by Anthropic. So don't be surprised by a sudden change of heart.
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by elktown 5mo ago
"Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome" is usually the overarching law of software dev/design/arch.
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by elktown 6mo ago
First thing I thought about. I have no reason to believe that it’s not accurate for most contemporary tech corps.
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by elktown 6mo ago
I'm afraid the bloat is too lucrative for everyone involved.
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by elktown 6mo ago
I'd argue on the contrary that it's the last decades' over-engineering bender that's coming home to roost. Now too many things have too many moving parts to keep stable.
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by elktown 6mo ago
You'll be thoroughly disappointed by your own comment history.
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by elktown 6mo ago
You're projecting. Byfåne.
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by elktown 7mo ago
I'm sure I'm not the first person you've seen hinting at OOP (and all that came with it) having been hyped up beyond its merits.
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by elktown 7mo ago
This field doesn’t do well on long-term thinking. Even if all this turns out to be a net loss, it will be reinterpreted as a win and just an opportunity for even more of the same solution. There are numerous examples of this, e.g. the OOP c
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by elktown 9mo ago
Nothing of that requires SPA, and the alternative is certainly not “nothing”. Not sure how you even get to that conclusion, strange rant. The meaning of alternative cost is not standing still.
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by elktown 9mo ago
> I don't find litigating this to be useful or interesting. I think it is useful because our field is woefully inept at anything resembling backtracking, and it's having concrete detrimental effects all over the field by, for e
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by elktown 9mo ago
There are indeed less user-centric metrics with surprising weight when it comes down to it. I've also noticed that "We read a FAANG blog post and got enchanted" is easily remembered as "Everything was bad and we had to
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by elktown 9mo ago
Not everything needs to be a SPA. I genuinely believe that the web would've been a much better place today on most important metrics (performance, simplicity, accessibility etc.) if this SPA shift would've never happened. The oppo
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by elktown 9mo ago
> the field has become lucrative enough it has attracted people who are interested in the money and not the craft Yup, exactly. > I'd use unrealistic to describe Handmade, proud is also accurate and works too In certain settings
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by elktown 9mo ago
> Software isn't bad because engineers don't care. Caring is certainly a wide spectrum. I see the Handmade stuff being proudly on far end of it.
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by elktown 9mo ago
I wonder if being a literal AI sci-fi author, antirez acknowledges that there's possible bias and willingness to extrapolate here? That said, I respect his work immensely and I do put a lot of weight to his recommendations. But I'
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by elktown 9mo ago
> Greenland has tremendous mineral resources and Denmark doesn’t have the capacity to extract them. If the U.S. decides that it needs to keep China from stepping in and developing Greenland’s resources, then it will do what it needs to d
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by elktown 9mo ago
Again, very well put. It often becomes a chain-reaction as well.
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by elktown 9mo ago
> A solution that simultaneously solves the problem and reduces complexity is almost the definition of genius. Well put. Chasing "How simple can we make this?" is a large part of what makes this job enjoyable to me. But it&#x27
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by elktown 9mo ago
My point was to highlight the double standards of this kind of after-the-fact reporting and discussions. I'm cynical enough to know that "might makes right" is a part of life to various degrees.
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by elktown 9mo ago
These threads makes it depressingly obvious how "might makes right" is the main underlying principle in the end - albeit periodically latent. Suddenly proportionality disappears and it's one of the worst regimes out there, a
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by elktown 9mo ago
> You need to calm down This was a fun dig actually. You doubling down made it even more so. Anyway, best of luck!
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by elktown 9mo ago
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by elktown 9mo ago
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by elktown 9mo ago
Given the various unhinged tirades of your banned account I'd look inwards.
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by elktown 9mo ago
Haha, funny. Hopefully you won’t be banned again!
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by elktown 9mo ago
Yeah, still spamming annoyed replies everywhere including old threads certainly fits the profile of someone unbalanced being angry about being found out.

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