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by gratitoad 3y ago
Here’s a fun theoretical existential threat: false vacuum decay. If our universe is in a false vacuum state (maybe yes? maybe no? we don’t know!) and that vacuum someday suddenly shifts into a true vacuum state (decays), then worst case sce
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by gratitoad 3y ago
First off, I appreciate the thoughtful write-up, under different circumstances this is the direction I’d probably be heading. However our web Frontend code is all currently in a large-ish (500 packages, 100 apps) monorepo and we’re actively
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by gratitoad 3y ago
We’re about to embark on the MFE journey and I’m concerned about pulling it off in a way that will have justified the effort. Our motivations are pure, we have many feature teams, we’re driving toward team independence, already breaking up
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by gratitoad 3y ago
Weird, I just discovered and made my first UML sequence diagrams yesterday and today it’s at the top of HN. Super useful for describing my problem and quite straightforward.
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by gratitoad 4y ago
It happens: https://qz.com/646467/how-one-programmer-broke-the-internet-... I’m by no means in the web-development-sucks-lets-kill-the-build camp, I think modern web frameworks and tooling can be incredibly useful part
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by gratitoad 4y ago
You tease. Dunno why you’d go out of your way to not name names, but it’s working: Who?
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by gratitoad 4y ago
This might hold true if you’re talking about desktop browsers, but it’s a different story on mobile, particularly in rapidly growing emerging markets. Both network latency and large JS payloads dramatically affect user experience on low pow
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by gratitoad 4y ago
I’m curious, where do you get those numbers from? Those are shockingly low numbers and don’t align with my observations, but I also don’t have hard figures to back them up.
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by gratitoad 4y ago
FWIW I used to get HBO Max free with my AT&T phone plan, so they have at one point given it “for free.” And I think you could be right about D+ architecture, they went from zero to a streaming service very quickly.
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by gratitoad 4y ago
Can I ask why that’s not at all surprising to you?
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by gratitoad 4y ago
Thanks! Of your list I only know Ticket to Ride and Codenames (both great), so this is a list rich with potential for me. I really appreciate you taking the time to write that out.
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by gratitoad 4y ago
Off-topic question for you: of those 600 games, what’s your short-list of favorites? I’ve only recently started playing board games and there’s an overwhelming number to choose from.
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by gratitoad 4y ago
It’s like you’ve seen into my very soul. I often struggle to isolate individual problems within a new problem space because my brain prefers to see the interconnected web of what could be if I just did this thing right. Excellent advice.
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by gratitoad 4y ago
Reading this comment had me cheering “yes, a thousand times yes” but then it occurred to me how often I turn to an O’Reilly book instead of a concrete project and I wondered why. I think I subconsciously avoid new projects to learn somethin
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by gratitoad 4y ago
At times I’ve become convinced that all of experienced reality is narrowing to a point and about to wink into nothingness, and myself along with it. It’s hard to explain, but it’s very convincing at the time. So as I experienced this sort o
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by gratitoad 4y ago
The point isn’t how similar (or not) the experiences in my mind are to actual death, it’s that at those times I’m convinced I am experiencing not just death, but total annihilation of my consciousness which is my personal best guess about w
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by gratitoad 4y ago
I’m not sure how this is a mistake, for them to not at least seriously consider an ads tier would be foolish if they’re struggling.