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by jongjong 1y ago
Maybe their goal was just surviving, not getting rich. Also, you underestimate how trivial this 'one-in-a-million opportunity' is; it's definitely not a one-in-a-million! Almost anybody with basic coding ability and a few tho
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by jongjong 1y ago
What about web-based apps which users can access in the browser without download? They can be very user-friendly. Big companies which do surveillance make their browser-based web apps crappy on purpose in order to coerce people into using t
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by jongjong 1y ago
My open source projects were not affected but close call. I was using 2 of the dependencies (as sub-dependencies) but older versions. Seems that my philosophy of minimizing the number of dependencies and looking up dependency authors is pay
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by jongjong 1y ago
Makes sense. Once you become really good at writing code, it becomes increasingly obvious that the real challenge of software development is the social problem of pointing out subtle contradictions in requirements and suggesting resolutions
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by jongjong 1y ago
The only long term solution for this is for people to use more different platforms. Communities should be seeking out new platforms, building their own chat platforms with their own protocols. There is no such thing as a single 'decent
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by jongjong 1y ago
Everything seems to be easier inside big tech. In most tech companies, it's dog-eat-dog, people are even using the code they produce as a tool for lock-in, negotiation and manipulation... It's like they believe they will never get
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by jongjong 1y ago
This is true. It's complicated. Also, if you're too good, some people above you may feel threatened and they can absolutely destroy your career. It's total bullshit that people at the top want to pay it forward. They don&#x27
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by jongjong 1y ago
This sucks. As a developer who puts a lot of effort on security, I hate that companies can get away with such negligence. I hope people invent AI bots which uncover vulnerabilities and make them available publicly for free, in real-time. Th
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by jongjong 1y ago
Extreme Programming attempts to weave together several independently useful concepts into a single paradigm... For that to make sense, the amalgamation of ideas has to be greater than the sum of its parts individually, but it's not cle
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by jongjong 1y ago
I've also been commenting a lot over the past decade. Partly for practicing my writing, like OP, partly to help maintain balance within the social order by shedding light on alternative perspectives which were often overlooked. But now
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by jongjong 1y ago
Isn't that how the whole system operates? Everyone is a conduit to allow rich people to enrich themselves further. The amount and quality of opportunities any individual receives are proportional to how well it serves existing capital.
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by jongjong 1y ago
Agreed. It would be in the interest of citizens of most countries to block these apps. IMO, any company which is present in a country must be beneficial to the average citizen of that country. If a company is not beneficial to the average c
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by jongjong 1y ago
My grandma is 90 and seems like she hasn't aged at all since I was a child. She is still fit and independent. She eats whatever she wants. She went to the doctor for a checkup and told him that she eats cake and pastries almost every d
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by jongjong 1y ago
I hate cash and its digital equivalent. I only use it because I am forced to, against my will, because everyone else has been conditioned into thinking that it has value. Fiat money is the root of all evil. Besides the way it systematically
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by jongjong 1y ago
I totally disagree about the monorepo argument. Mono-repos exist as a reaction to poor modularization and tight coupling which creates a need to update dependencies frequently. The reason for having dependencies in the same repo as the trun
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by jongjong 1y ago
This is a great article. It reminds me of a discussion I had about Russia; in Russia (and China) you are essentially told what you are not allowed to discuss freely... In the west, you are told that you can discuss anything but, in reality,
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by jongjong 1y ago
They could use Linux and Libre Office. The government doesn't actually require anything fancier than that. A lot of the dependencies on advanced features are artificial. The government creates unnecessary rules/bureaucracy for its
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by jongjong 1y ago
Yes and JS had a smooth on-ramp to async/await thanks to Promises. Promises/thenables gave people the time to get used to the idea of deferred evaluation via a familiar callback approach... Then when async/await came along, p
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by jongjong 1y ago
This sounds very optimistic. A more realistic interpretation is that the companies which control governments don't have moral principles and don't pick sides. In the case of weapons manufacturers, they may sometimes back both side
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by jongjong 1y ago
For some reason, people never seem to think about highly relevant questions such as "What is the minimum amount of code required to fully implement feature X?" Sure, it's an impossible question to answer accurately (in most c
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by jongjong 1y ago
I don't care about software craftsmanship anymore in my day job. 2 years ago I would have been deeply upset about this sort of thing but now I'm intentionally apathetic. Once I changed my goal from maximizing code quality to maxim
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by jongjong 1y ago
Easy, you can just create any generic Linux Amazon EC2 instance (or just about any cloud provider of your choice; in fact, the smaller the provider, the better) and use it as a SOCKS5 proxy via SSH tunnel with -D flag... Then set one of you
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by jongjong 1y ago
Interesting because I've been thinking about mechanical energy storage recently. I feel like these concepts hold a lot of promise on a small scale, per-house; coupled with solar panels. Although mechanical batteries they are not as eff
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by jongjong 1y ago
The "Everyone in tech has been receiving kickbacks scandal" has been averted successfully. Phew... So many people involved, so much pressure. This thing got flagged so fast, I didn't even have time to unmoor my ill-gotten yac
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by jongjong 1y ago
This is a brave move by Walmart. If all companies follow suit, I suspect this will affect almost every major tech company. This is not an isolated case, but the norm in the industry. I've seen this over and over; specific SaaS provider
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by jongjong 1y ago
It feels like all the 'low hanging fruit' ideas in the software space are basically gone, made non-viable because of too much competition. It was already somewhat the case that software industry was very competitive, even before p
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by jongjong 1y ago
It's interesting because my wife has been using Ibuprofen for headache relief, whereas I use Paracetamol. I usually got Paracetamol growing up but recent studies showing adverse effects of Ibuprofen on male fertility solidified my reso
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by jongjong 1y ago
I tried AI for coding in my own time since the very early days of GPT 3.5 but I didn't try it in my day job until much later when Cursor came out. Now I use Claude Code frequently. IMO this was the optimal approach, trying in my own ti
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by jongjong 1y ago
It's a mistake to assume that the utility of a tool has anything to do with its adoption. The real barrier to adoption for any tool are the network effects of other existing tools which create attention barriers and cultural barriers w
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by jongjong 1y ago
I suppose it could be worse. Still, now the US has a vested interest in seeing Intel crush AMD and others.

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