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by henning 2y ago
This would be an improvement over modern UI design. It's much more clear what is clickable. That is why old Windows versions were designed like that.
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by henning 2y ago
This isn't really an argument in favor of Rails so much as it is an argument against being indecisive and scattering your efforts too widely.
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by henning 2y ago
Considering how Bitcoin's price has been manipulated in the past and how concentrated it is in the hands of a small cabal of whales and miners, this is total bullshit.
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by henning 2y ago
They built a large codebase on a language that doesn't let you control memory, because that makes you "more productive". So just having Rails allocate a per-request arena that is asynchronously freed which would force the pro
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by henning 2y ago
The world runs on code that violates some or all of these rules. Following them won't fix any of the problems they have. It doesn't matter.
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by henning 2y ago
To paraphrase the great Bertram Gilfoyle, computers don't need to produce fake vocal tics.
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by henning 2y ago
Can this be used to create deepfake forged signatures/handwriting?
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Probably Impossible: NecroDancer's network code [video](youtube.com)
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by henning 2y ago
OK. How much red meat do you need to eat to have the excessive high iron levels likely to trigger the behavior under consideration in the study? How much higher is the risk? Also, spinach has iron. So excessive spinach consumption at levels
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by henning 2y ago
This is what it looks like to live in a weird architectural design bubble where you think spoiled rich kid schools are all schools. Like an attractive person for whom regular people literally do not cognitively exist, the shitty schools all
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by henning 2y ago
> However, by the time we started to take Fable to market, AI was beginning to challenge the very nature of software itself No it didn't. ChatGPT spitting out snippets of broken shit where you have to tell it exactly what you want a
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by henning 2y ago
Like all proper Uncle Bob Clean Code SOLID OOP React best practices 2024 websites, Webflow's website scrolls so badly on my developer workstation that it's hard to see what's going on with their animated parallax bullshit. Ju
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by henning 2y ago
How can someone like Jeffrey Zeldman believe in the work they're doing when the company acts like this? I understand there are bills to pay and the job market is terrible. Do what you need to do to survive.
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by henning 2y ago
This is great. I love you how started with a tiny HTML file and didn't immediately ask the user to install NodeJS and VS Code and a ton of other webdev shit.
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by henning 2y ago
> People waste time on trivialities that will never make a difference. Depending on the situation, memory layout could be trivial (copying 200 bytes once at startup vs. not in a way that should never be user-perceptible and difficult to
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by henning 2y ago
An old version of Winamp will load very quickly and run very well on modest hardware. This webpage does not scroll smoothly on a 2019 Mac Book Pro and there's a long delay in loading the gratuitous, confusing video you have on the page
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by henning 2y ago
like everything else coming from startup people, none of this means anything. none of the items listed there preclude a CEO from only talking to direct reports and viewing the org chart as a set of black boxes that their reports are respons
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by henning 2y ago
Whatever you do, don't make this an RFC in a Rust repo/something up for debate and discussion. 500+ messages and literally years later, no one will agree on a single thing. Just make the thing you want and if people don't lik
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by henning 2y ago
Yes, modern computer systems are unbelievably complicated from the application level down to the hardware. The consequences are absolutely devastating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZRE7HIO3vk
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by henning 2y ago
Web apps are complicated because we chose to make them complicated. We started with HTTP headers being sent over a socket and added on infinite layers of shit to "abstract" things. As if hiding what is actually going on is inheren
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by henning 2y ago
A stenography app that lets you type regularly on a QWERTY keyboard but also lets you do stenography when you hold down and release multiple keys at once. It's intended to make it easier to use a computer and write code while using s
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by henning 2y ago
For making the game more fun, you can then add features that are now standard/expected like coyote time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97_jvSPoRDo
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by henning 2y ago
Dead project?
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by henning 2y ago
I can't wait to try to buy a house and have an AI that tells me that a 5.11% interest rate is higher than 5.9%.
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by henning 2y ago
> I’ve been an engineer for over 7 years now. I have worked on countless projects If you've worked on countless projects in 7 years, that means no single project was that big or long. > Refactoring a relatively big software, for
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by henning 2y ago
Show us the Jepsen tests. Hire Aphyr to test your database.
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by henning 2y ago
Oh, so if I want to add a simple checkbox boolean field on a model on a proper best practices Clean Code Uncle Bob-approved code base in 2024, I have to: - add it in the database model - make a database migration for the field - add it in t
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by henning 2y ago
Ah, what better input format than JSON, a poorly defined, ambiguous format that freely mixes integers and floating points and lacks supports for bigints and bigdecimals.
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by henning 2y ago
Don't people just use Trello instead?
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by henning 2y ago
Evaluating startup ideas based on search volume reminds me of the apocryphal Henry Ford quote about "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses". VC-backed startups don't succeed by finding an

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