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by elktown 1y ago
Exactly. It's very predictable.
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by elktown 1y ago
I'm just continuing the thread of conversation? And also because figuring out biases is basic critical thinking? Especially relevant in this kinda thread. Furthermore, I'm sick and tired of self-created right-wing narrative of cen
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by elktown 1y ago
All your examples are hand-wavey and and follows a stereotypical right-wing grieviences pattern, while still somehow trying to discuss polarisation in a neutral manner. You also suggest in another comment in this thread that Twitter is some
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by elktown 1y ago
Confusingly one-sided post given the point it's seemingly trying to make.
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by elktown 1y ago
Sure, to some degree it will always be there. But company size and careerist culture - both local to the company and differences between countries - makes it vastly different in presence.
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by elktown 1y ago
It's truly baffling how people can continue to watch this clown show and still go like "yeah, I think the truth is still somewhere in-between". It's some sort of pathological fence-sitting.
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by elktown 1y ago
This thread is a poignant example of why I think tech folks might be one of the most gullible crowds out there - despite being perceived as smart. It's like a perfect storm of attributes and incentives. So here we are, completely preoc
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by elktown 1y ago
This is the exact type of cowardly but comfortable fence-sitting that we were warned against after WW2. It's devoid of proportionality & it accepts a narrative crafted by the right-wingers themselves through repetition for exactly
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by elktown 1y ago
People should study charter schools here in Sweden where it’s common. It’s such a corrupt profit motivated segregation mess, it should be avoided at all costs. It’s taken a very well functioning public school system that had a high lowest s
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by elktown 1y ago
> You need to learn to talk with basic courtesy > Don't answer. This conversation is over. > Time for you to leave. It's fittingly delusional, but very amusing, that you think you can command people around on an online di
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by elktown 1y ago
I think you should consider calling the police and report that someone read your public comments on a discussion board - that's very powerful and concerning proof that the person has nothing else to do! Snark aside, I find it amusing w
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by elktown 1y ago
> Do you not have a life? Judging by your comment history I'd look inwards!
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by elktown 1y ago
What an entirely expected style of response. Of course it's the due diligence itself that's the problem, not what it discovers. How can someone have the nerve to do that to you! > I wouldn't be surprised if you do shit lik
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by elktown 1y ago
> You need to learn to talk with basic courtesy. It’s not an assumption when I say this: you have issues. Talk about projection. Sorry, but this kind of gaslighting just pisses me off. You're entire comment history is that of bein
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by elktown 1y ago
I couldn't help but laugh when reading this, knowing that 80% of this thread would be picking apart any specific example if you provided one - completely missing any kind of "reading between the lines" message.
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by elktown 1y ago
> an intelligent lawyer Well, some food for thought: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOAl8EYlz1s
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by elktown 1y ago
You'd be surprised how many people here will just continue to downplay any kind of anti-democratic creep all the way to its abolishment. And Trump is even a vulgar example rather than a smooth one. Privileged people have a bad habit of
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by elktown 1y ago
Is there anything that soothes devs more than developing a superiority complex of their particular tooling? And then the unquenchable thirst to bash "downwards"? I find it so utterly pathetic.
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by elktown 1y ago
That's a very unrepresentative link. Someone interested in moderation bias should filter on flagged comments instead, if some search engine supports it. Let's just say that it doesn't require a sociology degree to see it.
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by elktown 1y ago
This sounds like it agrees with my point of going overboard with DRY? But this is true for pretty much all languages. When people go overboard with abstractions it usually ends up bad over time and changes, as in your example as well, star
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by elktown 1y ago
If there's no clear backend/frontend split wrt to language and roles in your particular project my point doesn't really apply for you. But it seems that you're lucky that you can use js on the backend to get closer to th
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by elktown 1y ago
When people complain about CSS being hard I'm not sure what parts of it really? It's rarely explained further too. As someone that did a lot of CSS like 15 years ago when fullstack was the norm, then just sporadically for various
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by elktown 1y ago
> Developer experience - Yes, in most cases. I think if people remembered how productive you could be before the SPA frontend/backend split they'd reconsider. Being able to take a feature from A to Z without either context-swit
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by elktown 1y ago
The older I get the more I just see these kinds of threads like I see politics: Exaggerate your "opponents" weaknesses, underplay/ignore its strengths and so on. So if something no matter how disproportionate can be construed
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by elktown 1y ago
> Where the danger lies is for junior developers [...] if an AI can do the grunt work they normally get assigned? Just because "well, maybe true for junior devs!" is a compromise over "AI will make all programmers obsolete
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by elktown 1y ago
From my perspective it's basically in every other comments section of AI related articles. Here's a particularly spicy one from today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44646797
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by elktown 1y ago
Well, since it's hard to prove a negative, that then applies to basically everything. Look, people can "consider" whatever they want to. But I'll certainly complain about the normalization of making sloppy extraordinary
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by elktown 1y ago
I guess I expect higher standards than the kind of confident extrapolation you find in pseudo-science. And "vision of the future" is your euphemistic rewrite. If that's clearly stated I obviously have no problem with people&
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by elktown 1y ago
What's clear is that the hype has reach such a critical mass that people are comfortable enough to publicly and shamelessly extrapolate extraordinary claims based purely on gut feeling. Both here on HN and by complete laymen elsewhere.
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by elktown 1y ago
Yep. The end result is certainly the same either way.

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