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by gavmor 3y ago
Seems perfectly fitting. These ideas give a good team "permission" to believe in themselves. People who think they need "the right idea" might be stuck in the Alignment Trap, from which any execution engine is the exit
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by gavmor 3y ago
The real question is what's nearby each name's vector embedding in terms of whatever similarity metric Gemini will use to talk about the world. That's their new canonical ontology, after all.
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by gavmor 3y ago
Do you mean something like this by Tamas Rabel? https://tamas-rabel.github.io/hex_world_generator/hex_world_...
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by gavmor 3y ago
A valid and relatable viewpoint. I take great satisfaction in keeping my tabletop gaming materials as tangible as possible while many have gone fully digital and never looked back! That being said, I'm a huge fan of Artifexian's m
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by gavmor 3y ago
Of course code review is a ritual. All professionalism is. We establish norms and rites the performance of which increases shared understanding and predictable outcomes. I am not sure I understand what malign connotation this word carries f
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by gavmor 3y ago
Well that sounds like a good read! I've been privileged to spend my 10+ years writing software among pair-programmers, and have never been made to suffer from this "code review" ritual. Maybe it's not so bad? I'd lo
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by gavmor 3y ago
"Have you ever reconsidered your path up the cliff face and had to reposition a slew of pitons? This means your pitons are too tightly coupled to the route!"
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by gavmor 3y ago
De-dogmatizing needs to happen, so what? I think these kinds of rules are helpful to play with; adopt them, ride them as far as they go, invert them for a day or year , see where that takes you. You learn their limits, so what? More grist f
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by gavmor 3y ago
I know at least one French founder, but I'll admit he was very excited to be working in SF when I met him. You may have to leave the country, simply because SF is the Schelling Point where we've all agreed to meet. But Paris is a
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by gavmor 3y ago
Sarcastic? I'm earnestly perplexed.
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by gavmor 3y ago
This is true. I have heard this verbatim from multiple coder buddies. It's a certain kind of personality that's excited to take on these risks, let alone these tasks. Technical cofounder is an obscure type of person.
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by gavmor 3y ago
I'm presuming you're "technical" yourself. I would give a very different answer if you weren't. I think the problem is looking for a "technical cofounder" without letting them be a "technical professi
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by gavmor 3y ago
Why not, indeed? There must be a deeper point these people are trying to make. ImageMagick is not obscure, is it?
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by gavmor 3y ago
$ cat /usr/share/dict/words | shuf | head -n 10 $ convert foo.png foo.jpg Took me almost literally two seconds to come up with that, unless your point is that at one point I had to learn it which, yeah, sure. What am I
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by gavmor 3y ago
In 2014 we used wkhtmltopdf[0] to generate PDF copies of Cloudfoundry docs for every version every release, and maybe that's what I'd reach for now. Not sure if Qt WebKit has similar limits as Chromium. Not that you asked, but I a
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by gavmor 3y ago
Yeah, I was completely distracted trying to figure out what `import { Button, icons } from "ui"` was derived from. Looks like `<div classname="flex` was partially made up of "beautifully it animates," like a sort
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by gavmor 3y ago
I was mistaken, actually. Our p2p framework is resilient enough to reassign the "host" client without refreshing the page.
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by gavmor 3y ago
Ah, I appreciate that you checked a second browser!
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by gavmor 3y ago
> If I share the link, it just lets more people edit the same poll We've overloaded poll editing UI and the voting UI, so re-ordering items in the poll is how they vote. It's semantically gross, but it's ergonomically f
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by gavmor 3y ago
A blank screen, or a "loading skeleton"? The app is peer-to-peer, so if none of the recent visitors have hit refresh to become the host the data will no longer be accessible. Terrible UX for you, but forever $0 hosting costs for m
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by gavmor 3y ago
Likely it will have "stopped working" by now, because it's peer-to-peer and none of you are sticking around long enough to become the host.
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by gavmor 3y ago
Friend and I built https://druthers.app , and we use it all the time to solve our own interpersonal disputes, as well as with family and friends. It hasn't got any quality-of-life chrome or meta-features such as logins, or b
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by gavmor 3y ago
> as long as those checks are performed somewhere before you ship your code Preferably, they're performed before I push to a remote repository. Hopefully they're performed before I alt-tab away from the editor for a single seco
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by gavmor 3y ago
> business-relevant change has more to do with features than code I cannot comprehend this. It's like saying "Health has more to do with organs than cells." Organs comprise features. Features comprise code. To change the f
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by gavmor 3y ago
I don't have an "academic" background, I just enjoy the subjective ergonomic advantages. At the very least, strict types obviate a class of tests that I'd previously considered indispensable. > dynamic typing, it can
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by gavmor 3y ago
"Correctness" isn't even the draw of static typing; speed and flexibility are. When I make a single business-relevant change, the compiler's error messages guide me to modify what must else accommodate. This is faster (a
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by gavmor 3y ago
Because junior developers don't know how to do Type-Driven Development.
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by gavmor 3y ago
Fun! I took my exported font over to https://fontdrop.info to have a quick look at some lorem ipsum. Had some trouble figuring out what the "Submit" button was for. Wasn't until fontdrop revealed I was missing cap
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by gavmor 3y ago
I enjoyed working with concourse as the foundations of Pivotal's release engineering systems. We tried several other platforms, but ultimately concourse was tailor-made for Pivotal-style dev/ops ie highly technical, prioritizing v
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by gavmor 3y ago
No one could accuse DHH of being an amateur, and it's true that static typing is an obstacle if it's not a vehicle. It took me years to "get on the other side" of typing, and wield it productively instead of battling aga

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