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by kokanee 3y ago
We had a government customer who essentially asked us to raise our prices so that they could request a larger budget.
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by kokanee 3y ago
I'm seeing a mix of 503s, 522s, 500s, and once in a while a successful page load on the website. No word on the root cause at this point.
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by kokanee 3y ago
Not exactly related, but I preordered a Rivian SUV and waited in line for about 2 years. By the time my turn finally came up, lots of other manufacturers had announced plans to release off-road or towing-capable EVs, many at lower price poi
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by kokanee 3y ago
I spent 5 years working on one of these startups. I'm not sure that the highway lane constraint is fundamental to the reality that contech startups tend to fail, but I think the assessment about the hubris of contech startups is fair.
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by kokanee 3y ago
It's sincere if you tell people that you sell shovels. It's insincere if you tell people that you will make all their prospecting dreams come true.
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by kokanee 3y ago
This is a fantastic point, but Zoom would never have been a candidate for me personally for several reasons: - As important as reducing our use of fossil fuels is, using less energy is not a solution to the problem of a non-renewable energy
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by kokanee 3y ago
I work on software at a hardware startup that is designing and manufacturing a next-generation electrolysis plant for the production of green hydrogen. My personal experience has led me to believe that opportunities to participate meaningfu
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by kokanee 3y ago
huh I clicked around for a while and I like the vibe but I can't find any directory or feed of pages/projects to explore; it looks like it's all documentation and chat rooms for developers. Is there a way to browse the indie
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by kokanee 3y ago
Hmm maybe I’m not being fair but my initial reaction is that this uses SQL.js as a database and browser tabs for backups. And then restores from the backups before each query instead of just reading from the in-memory db.
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by kokanee 3y ago
Playing devil's advocate, maybe they would argue that "we" refers to the organization that operates the service, and that in the event that the ownership of the organization changes, the statement could still be true - "
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by kokanee 3y ago
I’ve heard some people say that as a child they thought the letter before P was “Elemeno.” So it certainly tracks that if you ask kids to recite “and per se and” that they might think the whole phrase is the name of the letter.
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by kokanee 3y ago
Agree with the sentiment, disagree with the assignment of blame. Blame legal, marketing, design, or PM. No web dev decided this was how they wanted to spend a day.
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by kokanee 3y ago
They sell ads, but now they also charge for API requests. Unlike most forums, a significant amount of Reddit interactions happen via the API. They have all the best communities on the internet, but their software is HORRIBLE, so the communi
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by kokanee 3y ago
My take on this specific example is that when a device is found to be leaking refrigerant, the owner, installer, and manufacturer should all be fined.
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by kokanee 3y ago
> All you need to track a user is data you send as part of a HTTP request. Browsers impose a limit on concurrent requests (usually 6 per hostname) for a reason - HTTP requests, be they too many or too large, are one of the largest perfor
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by kokanee 3y ago
An idea I would be interested in is some kind of public-private partnership for operating internet services like social media, search, and wikis, which are necessary for the public good but have no viable economic model. The government prov
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by kokanee 3y ago
I have a fairly negative/pessimistic take on this model, but it’s my truth: Wikipedia, in my experience, is littered with some of the most aggressive, psychologically manipulative, and persistent ads of any major site. They just happen
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by kokanee 3y ago
An idea I mull over occasionally: what if you could spend your karma points to boost any given post? This would ultimately be another form of paid advertising, except that the currency used would be earned by contributing to the community.
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by kokanee 3y ago
No one is protesting ads, and most redditors support the idea of a reasonable monetization approach for third party apps. But u/spez is pretty open about the fact that he views third party apps as competitors and/or leeches, and h
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by kokanee 3y ago
I agree. I recently went to great lengths in the React app I own to make it so that only the affected components would re-render on each input keystroke, and the result is gross but performant. My opinion is relatively nuanced: I am a propo
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by kokanee 3y ago
The entire internet is slower because it's being squeezed to oblivion for monetization and tracking purposes. No matter what technology you choose to render HTML with, your company is going to have a slew of systems for injecting 3rd p
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by kokanee 3y ago
Another incumbent is https://gofuckingdoit.com by the bootstrapping cult icon Pieter Levels.
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by kokanee 3y ago
Governments are composed of citizens; this is the same problem at a different scale. The point remains that racing to stand up an open source uncensored version of GPT-4 is a dangerous proposition.
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by kokanee 3y ago
The great downfall of hooks, IMO, is that they allow you to create components that look clean and legible, but act unpredictably because all of your state updates are triggered by variable reference changes. The idea is that this makes your
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by kokanee 3y ago
Sure, React still supports that, for some reason. But good luck getting a job offer or even a PR approved if you're using `this.setState()` in 2023.
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by kokanee 3y ago
I do this when possible. Caching can be a pain to get right though. If you’re set up to do hashed filenames for JS and CSS already, you can leverage that for cache busting your json, and then you need to inject the hashed filename into the
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by kokanee 3y ago
Thanks for your thoughts! Appreciate it.
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by kokanee 3y ago
I'm in my mid-30s and facing the reality that I do not want to be a manager, but have a hard time picturing myself coding into my 60s. I'd be curious to hear more about what in your eyes separates "certain parts of our indust
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by kokanee 3y ago
"Most commonly used X today are clever optimizations atop old Y" is pretty much the story of technology, isn't it?
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by kokanee 3y ago
React kind of reminds me of English. It is ubiquitous for reasons that essentially boil down to imperialism. It imposes at least as many problems as it solves. There is ample evidence that we were getting along fine (if not better) without

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