jimbokun

23 ms·

721.
by jimbokun 6mo ago
It’s just an empirically observable reality. Religious people tend to be less lonely , more likely to be married and have children, and more happy and less likely to experience mental illness, on average. It’s certainly not true for every r
722.
by jimbokun 6mo ago
What’s your proposed alternative for flourishing, content, joyful human lives?
723.
by jimbokun 6mo ago
It’s just that historically there haven’t been many successful examples of atheist communities with the kind of shared deep purpose, meaning and connection you describe.
724.
by jimbokun 6mo ago
Yes it’s much better to be an atheist miserable wage slave with a miserable life.
725.
by jimbokun 6mo ago
The French have excellent government benefits and services and that’s partly due to their willingness to riot.
726.
by jimbokun 6mo ago
My one vacation to Paris I was very concerned about the protests/near riots, things being set on fire, and garbage piled high because of strikes I saw on television. But we ended up having a great time. Got used to the piles of garbag
727.
by jimbokun 6mo ago
I’m strongly introverted and having kids was an amazing positive experience for me.
728.
by jimbokun 6mo ago
Everyone expecting to escape the “middle class“ reminds me of Lake Wobegon where all the children are above average.
729.
by jimbokun 6mo ago
In general it’s bad to generalize, but the article says that housing prices across the US increased 50% over the past 5 years.
730.
by jimbokun 6mo ago
Rule of 3 will greatly benefit the customer over time as it lessens the probability of bugs and makes adding new features faster.
731.
by jimbokun 6mo ago
Another law for the list!
732.
by jimbokun 6mo ago
Would be tempted to stick a proxy in there that checks if the data is malformed in the expected way, and if so converts it to the valid form before forwarding to the real service.
733.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
It’s important to signaling to employers you have obtained skills useful to them. And for most students that’s all they really care about. If the companies stop valuing the diplomas, students will stop paying tuition to attend, and the univ
734.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
I wonder if the companies hiring students from those universities have come to understand there’s no guarantee they learned any of the material.
735.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
Working remotely.
736.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
I really like this approach. A good reminder that Ruby started out as a shell scripting language, as evidenced by many of the built in primitives useful for shell programming.
737.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
This is why whiteboards used to be so popular in many/most tech company offices. Doing this exact same process interactively with other people, and a not to NOT ERASE or later taking a picture of the whiteboard with your phone.
738.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
Will the designers vibe code coders out of a job before coders vibe design designers out if a job?
739.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
Those are the kind of domains where LLMs as an interface should kick ass. Describe the idea of what you want to do, not the inscrutable steps the application requires to get there.
740.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
I think many companies need a UX professional to stop developers from deploying bespoke interfaces and forcing them to follow whatever idioms and patterns the users are most familiar with.
741.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
Notice that several examples in the Claude Design demo video are typing in English things that could be accomplished through UI controls, if the user only knew where to find them.
742.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
So the definition of art is work except you don’t get paid?
743.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
I do think they cared. The paychecks weren’t great. Everyone was offering to pay designers with “exposure”. If they didn’t innately care about the field they would have done something more lucrative.
744.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
Then no design is taking place.
745.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
The YCombinator era where you could start a web business for low cost for a still unserved market was a short lived anomaly. The cost of starting a new business has returned to the historical baseline.
746.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
The core was simply that he created a successful business, but was spending more time running it than he would be working a normal full time job. Then he delegated more and more responsibilities, allowing them to make decisions for anything
747.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
Dave Ramsey went bankrupt but to be fair he incorporates it into his teaching. “Hear are the things that led me to bankruptcy, and here are the things I did to climb out of it and become financially stable again.”
748.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
Hope your rich uncles are watching their backs!
749.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
Apple makes devices people like and use. Many people loved their Teslas. Netflix makes shows people enjoy. Facebook really did help people stay in touch with friends and family before replacing it with the Feed of Rage. Google was far b
750.
by jimbokun 7mo ago
When the Internet was a quite new a guy who knew I was a programmer met with me to pitch an Internet business and it took me a while to figure out he was literally pitching Amway online.

More ›