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by fhd2 3y ago
I suppose Figma might just be beyond the "let's find the fastest/cheapest way to get this working" point. I believe it makes sense for a company in that stage to mess about a bit, find different (maaaybe even better) way
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by fhd2 3y ago
I'm working on a WordPress site for a test campaign right now, and pretty much came to the conclusion that most themes/plugins send me down two rabbit holes: 1) Licensing / security issues 2) Getting them beyond 80% of what I
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by fhd2 3y ago
Oh I personally don't even think the job of software developers is in particular danger from "AI" in the short/mid term. That's what I meant by not being on the hype train. The industry maturing, easy VC/stock
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by fhd2 3y ago
Could be! Most SaaS tools I can think of cover some specific work flow in a way that it kinda works for 80% of the customers. Their UI is quite an intrinsic part of the offering, an API-only version of it wouldn't be as valuable. But i
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by fhd2 3y ago
There's a simple test: Do we have less of more illustrators now than we had in 1816 (quick Wikipedia lookup for when the camera was invented)? We should probably adjust this for total population, i.e. compare the percentage of illustra
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by fhd2 3y ago
Good take! I think one specific development we might see would be an end of the SaaS micro tool era. Right now, most companies I advise have an absolute _jungle_ of different tools and a bunch of interns manually bridging the gap between th
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by fhd2 3y ago
I'm not on the hype train myself, but I'd never say never. I can certainly picture much of what devs do today become automated. Heck, we already have plain old deterministic tools that are ridiculously productive compared to commo
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by fhd2 3y ago
Excellent points! How I like to think about the post truth thing: The time period in which we had reliable evidence that was impossible (or at least very difficult) to tamper with was quite short. Can't have been more than 200 years. S
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by fhd2 3y ago
Thanks for pointing this out!
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by fhd2 3y ago
Oooh, esm.sh looks pretty close to what I'm looking for, thanks!
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by fhd2 3y ago
Oh boy. Reading the title ("JSR: The JavaScript Registry" at the time of writing) I had high hopes this might be what I'm looking for: Dependency management for JavaScript in the browser. It's something entirely differen
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by fhd2 3y ago
I use a Makefile as well :D Both to glue it all together and for the most common reports I need. For turning the CSV files into Ledger, I have a binary written in Common Lisp. Suppose I tried to make accounting exciting and it worked :P
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by fhd2 3y ago
I've been using ledger for years, quite happily. My setup includes a whole lot of custom code for downloading transactions from my banks, PayPal etc and classifying them automatically. I use Ledger as the storage format and to generate
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by fhd2 3y ago
Depends on where the time is saved. If it's in figuring out how to do something in Django where StackOverflow is flooded with outdated answers, sure. I see those kinds of savings. But the tragic beauty of programming is that a little t
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by fhd2 3y ago
My thinking as well. If coding assistants become so good that I'm at a competitive disadvantage, I'll just start using them. It's not rocket science. So far, everything I've tried largely slowed me down. As a Google&#x2F
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by fhd2 3y ago
I kinda agree with both of you. Given infinite time (and assuming humanity is around and willing to work on it for as long as it takes), I suppose we _should_ be able to automate anything. I honestly don't know how long that's gon
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by fhd2 3y ago
It looks to me as if they were trying to be "inclusive". So hard, that it ended up being rather exclusive in a probably unexpected way.
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by fhd2 3y ago
Or "monopolist"? :D The thing is, I honestly don't know if that is or isn't the correct word for this. My point is, to me (as a European less exposed to all this culture war stuff), it doesn't seem that important. W
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by fhd2 3y ago
When you try very hard not to go in one direction, you usually end up going too far in the other direction. I'm as white as they come, but I personally don't get upset about this. Racism is discrimination, discrimination implies a
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by fhd2 3y ago
I think we're not even close technologically, but creating historically accurate (based on the current level of knowledge humanity has of history) depictions, environments and so on is, to me, one of the most _fascinating_ applications
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by fhd2 3y ago
I suppose it's quite widely known where "JavaScript" comes from, but seeing it next to all the others and how they were named on the list, it seems like the... saddest etymology of them all.
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by fhd2 3y ago
And then there's F#, which _does_ play on musical notation. But I suppose F is also for "functional".
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by fhd2 3y ago
Maybe lazy is the wrong term, but less attentive apparently. There was the Ironies of Automation paper about this: https://ckrybus.com/static/papers/Bainbridge_1983_Automatica...
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by fhd2 3y ago
Almost all of them are German in fact - since I find them through my network primarily. I guess the answer to your question is because I'm too lazy :) Plus I primarily work with startups, they tend to be pretty international here.
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by fhd2 3y ago
Haha, thanks, I didn't even spell check this I guess. I also wrote "advise" as a noun in there...
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by fhd2 3y ago
Thanks :) I got plenty of advice to not write something like that, but it's just how it is.
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by fhd2 3y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I was actually pondering about that sentence. I don't think it helps sales in any way, it's just me trying to be transparent, but it's probably too prominent for how irrelevant it is. In an interestin
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by fhd2 3y ago
I see the same in the consulting space - people who've barely ever talked to a prospect let alone had an actual customer (I happen to know from talking to folks like that) have a shiny website with pricing packages talking about "
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by fhd2 3y ago
The value of advice is largely estimated based on who gives it. If a client is hiring me, it seems clear to me that they're paying for mine. For support tasks (like research or even supporting a writeup) I'm not ethically opposed
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by fhd2 3y ago
I'm a consultant - for about a year now. Not at BCG or anywhere, I'm a one man company. What I do is pretty similar to what I did before in my CTO roles, just a bit more strategy and less execution. Clients come to me with questio

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