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by klabb3 1y ago
First, these tips and tricks that ”works for me” aren’t universal, it may or may not work, there’s literally no way to tell other than to run large scale empirical experiments, otherwise it’s just mythbuilding. Secondly, it can be even wors
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by klabb3 1y ago
> a lot of my time now is spent reviewing code rather than writing it. Reviewing has never been a panacea. It’s a best-effort at catching obvious mistakes, like a second opinion. Only with highly rigorous tests can reviewing give as high
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by klabb3 1y ago
This is so unnecessary. Why would they do that? Just use a strong color.
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by klabb3 1y ago
> A simple checkbox would have done just fine Simple is in the eye of the beholder. Try asking a younger person which one is simpler. The checkbox is tied to a form, ticking it doesn’t do anything until you submit, whereas a toggle switc
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by klabb3 1y ago
> But it's still a flat design, and thus does not properly transport clickability. And toggled / disabled states. With mobile’s lack of hover, it’s often a game of trial and error to figure out what’s even interactable. > An
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by klabb3 1y ago
> But imagine the flashlight apps and mindless-tapper games that subscribe some mom’s credit card to a 9.95 USD/day charge without an easy way to cancel? I thought you were referring to the actual App Store until you said ”easy to c
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by klabb3 1y ago
Yes you can. On iPhone the recommend ”secure webview” shows the domain name in bold at the top. In general, this embedded webview seems very easily spoofable to me, but that’s a separate problem. Both Android and Apple have determined this
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by klabb3 1y ago
It’s not unpopular, I see it as the majority opinion on HN. It’s based on skepticism against web in general, and outright hatred for electron (which is at least somewhat justified). My app is 11MB bundle (most of which is an unrelated nativ
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by klabb3 1y ago
Sorry for meta but.. this is one of those rare cases where both the argument and the rebuttal are worth agreeing with.
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by klabb3 1y ago
Yes and for those cases it’s kind of already solved decently like with htmx or just plain old forms and post requests. I think those old ways are underrated. But, for a chat app it isn’t gonna cut it. Or a collaborative app, where changes n
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by klabb3 1y ago
> But if I'm being honest post query selector frameworks don't have a strong cost benefit argument To me the killer app in the modern world is reactivity, ie making views that update in response to changes in the data model. To
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by klabb3 1y ago
> Her department nominally has a strategy, but I couldn't leak it if I wanted to; I literally could never figure out what any part of it meant, even after years of hearing her describe it. This was my experience with upper-middle ma
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by klabb3 1y ago
Why obsess over idealism and purity? We (most of us) don’t do that with individual liberty. Sure, we should have guiding principles for deciding how to regulate markets, just like we have for civil liberties. But for everyone except anarcho
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by klabb3 1y ago
I read the book and the post. I’m glad to see the rebuttal so weak, it strengthens my conviction that Yanis is onto something and is using historical analogies appropriately. While most arguments are just technical gotchas, there’s a fundam
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by klabb3 1y ago
I can’t speak to swift, but in experience with many other langs and runtimes I will say that single-threaded business logic by default is still the only sane choice even today. There are exceptions both on client and server side, but you ge
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by klabb3 1y ago
In my experience, if you have a medium sized task with multiple unknowns, it is best to prototype aggressively without a thought about quality, and then start a second iteration with quality in mind. The purpose of the prototyping is learn
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by klabb3 1y ago
Yes, analogies do have differences. And parliament is better than handshakes behind closed doors, even if it’s not perfect. Comparing to states is much more far fetched. The UK left the union without any serious retaliation, let alone milit
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by klabb3 1y ago
> Solar and wind are being deployed in enormous quantities. Yes, but that's not what's concerning the skeptics anymore, especially for solar (thankfully - the cost reductions and efficiency gains have been great). Aside from th
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by klabb3 1y ago
The big picture incongruence in the thread is using terms as patriotic, allegories to US states, which imo is but a US-centric projection. Even proponents don’t think of the EU to be a supreme government with federated states, and they cert
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by klabb3 1y ago
> Isn't this just a pot calling the kettle black? New expression to me, thanks. But yes, and no. I’d agree in the sense that the null hypothesis is crucial, possible the main divider between optimists and pessimists. But I’ll still
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by klabb3 1y ago
It’s not that much flamebait imo. It’s not exactly a secret that the mainstream global left have been losing large amounts of voters to populist right. It’s driven by fear of scaring away voters with socialism (both Europe and US) and in th
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by klabb3 1y ago
Ironically delivery apps to be designed for walkable (ie non US) cities. At least where I lived in the US, driving was always very congested and adds extra time for parking and such, always at least 30 min with huge variance based on traffi
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by klabb3 1y ago
> The LLM skeptics need to point out what differs with code compared to Chess, DoTA, etc from a RL perspective. I see the burden of proof has been reversed. That’s stage 2 already of the hubris cycle. On a serious note, these are nothing
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by klabb3 1y ago
They aren’t exactly hiding it. I kept my eye on bit.io because they looked very promising. Next day, gone. Shut down immediately. Something is fucky with the investment pipeline because it’s not ”worth” that much on its own, it’s a market d
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by klabb3 1y ago
It’s only true in theory and over a single transaction, not necessarily over time. The hack that VCs have exploited for decades now is subsidizing products and acquiring competition to eventually enshittify. In this case, when OpenAI dials
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by klabb3 1y ago
I agree but what is the root cause? Which things are generally bad for the brain? Because if it was social, meetings would be good. And if it’s reality escape, going to the movies would be bad.
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by klabb3 1y ago
It’s only lost revenue if the interactions were providing revenue in the first place. And for consumer tech, if you take away the ability to control the ad-funnels and engagement knobs, there is no revenue to gain. Why do you think all APIs
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by klabb3 1y ago
This was the promise of no-code. ”All apps are crud anyway”, ”just build for common use cases” etc. This didn’t turn out to be true as often as predicted. If averaging people’s previous decisions was truly a fruitful way, we’d have seen muc
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by klabb3 1y ago
Damn I didn’t see your comment and wrote basically the same thing. Great minds think alike I guess. Oh well..
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by klabb3 1y ago
Disagree. There is almost no decision making in converting to use i18n APIs that already have example use cases elsewhere. Building a frontend involves many decisions, such as picking a language, build system, dependencies, etc. I’m sure th

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