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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Couldn’t be more wrong
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Uh oh, you've summoned the typesetters
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Yep, the more complex an app can be, the more complex the app will be
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Exactly. If it's a common enough occurrence that most React SPA's are slow and bloated, it may not be the framework's fault, but if changing to a simpler framework makes it better, then it's just a semantic argument
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
I think the exact opposite is true, B2B SaaS apps don't need to be an SPA to deal with fancy variants of a table. You can create highly interactive UI with things like Rails and Hotwire, sprinkles of JS or even HTMX. SPA's are blo
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Seems like the red ball rising to near the top was regularly missed, I reckon an appropriately placed cannon that fired 5 minutes before the ball dropped would've been a suitably British way to warn everyone
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
This is really well put. Those who's main job is email, meetings and the occassional spreadsheet can't understand why those who do something technical must have significant time alone to work through a problem
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Yeah I worked out the "N days without sleep" was mostly rubbish too. I personally went for 3 days without any sleep in the army as part of a sleep deprivation exercise and it was one of the most brutal things I've ever done,
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
This is just luddism out of envy
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Well, every crap hometown yes. But in this case Derby has been officially voted the biggest dump in the UK recently: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13479767/Derby-vote...
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Can confirm, I grew up in Derby and it's an absolute desolate wasteland for anyone with any ambition, intelligence or a need for a modicum of culture. Saying the peak district is good for young people is like saying there's a grea
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
So you were banned for the new rules on imitation as opposed to free speech
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Maybe have an option to view the main page as a list (ie copies Hacker News) but then each individual page has the photos?
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
If a model is good enough (I’m not saying this one is that level) I could imagine individuals and businesses paying 20,000 a month. If they’re answering questions at phd level (again, not saying this one is) then for a lot of areas this mak
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
The problem is that countries who don't want to compete on the marketisation of everything will lose out eventually. In your example of elderly care, an extended family in Italy may care for their own grandmother (and they'd proba
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Do you not have tests for your Jobs?
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Yes and they do non-software engineering Are we going to have international protocols and policies on the best language to use, how to do SQL queries and CSS? no
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Yeah exactly, until the miscarriage of justice was too big to ignore
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Whilst I agree in principle, would any Senior Engineer want to work on such a system that had their personal liability attached? I'd want 10's of millions in annual comp just for the risk
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
The fact that this misnomer of infallible computer systems was ever enshrined in law is pretty damning of the whole UK legal system and the relationship between technical people and law. Every person who has ever programmed a computer or wo
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Well that's the point of the article isn't it, Rails hasn't been the flavour-of-the-month in about 15 years, it's boringly good, so that's why you should stick with it
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
30,000+ tests and it can't detect breaking changes?
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Perhaps if it doesn't have enough data to explain but it has enough to go "on gut"
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
They're the same people that do bike-shedding and code golf all day at work. I hate them with a febrile passion
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
You're not seriously suggesting that HN commenters like to nitpick small details and miss the wood for the trees?
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Example?
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Considering how anti-types dhh is, there is not going to be any official support for this anytime soon. In his most recent interviews the philosophy can be summarised as "if you love types, good for you, but rails isn't for you&qu
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
Interesting thanks, I've used map tilers in the past without paying, maybe I just never came up against any rate limiting
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
I'm relatively new to mapping, can you explain the difference between running Leaflet and a free map tiling provider compared to your product?
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by jack_riminton 2y ago
I was fully expecting to read a load of nonsense, but it chimes quite a lot with military training, which shouldn't actually be that surprising. e.g. if someone is your bottleneck make them aware, give them a due date, check in regular

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