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by ojr 1y ago
he had no proof he can code, no projects, no github, only hired because he gave them a lowball offer, it was lowball because he was scamming
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by ojr 1y ago
I stopped drinking soda this year and alcohol years ago. If you consumed any heavily advertised product this year, then you can't say ads don't work. Including products like Cursor.
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by ojr 1y ago
My friend wants me to build his app for free because he heard the cost of software labor has gone to zero. He gave me ChatGPT responses, thinking that they could help me add features after I told him the complexity was too high. In a sprint
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by ojr 2y ago
I just inherited a Flutter project with no readme and no prior Flutter experience. AI helps but adding new features and deploying is still a tall task, having a conversation with the previous contributors is invaluable and somehow underrate
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by ojr 2y ago
Create a SaaS and charge people $20/month, time-consuming but more possible with LLMs. Subscriptions are such a good business model for the reasons people hate subscriptions.
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by ojr 2y ago
Apple requires apps to be updated at least once every 3 years, keeping the dependencies of an app up-to-date is not easy
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by ojr 3y ago
Elon Musk tweets a lot and Tesla has the best electric car batteries in terms of mile range, and the reusuable rockets at SpaceX are managed pretty well
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by ojr 3y ago
I still feel vindicated, you don't need Typescript to write type definitions and also type safety on the server/api can be done with Graphql and writing gql
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by ojr 3y ago
For the normal consumer, Twitter is better than Bluesky/Mastodon, Macs and Windows are better than Linux, ChatGPT and Open AI have better predictions than open source LLMs. Its not even competitive the closed source solutions are so mu
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by ojr 4y ago
web2 scams are not web3, web3 involves bitcoin which current price is respectable the boom bust cycly in 20-21 was heavily macro related. Web3 also involves ipfs, you can search for any book currently and the data lives on the blockchain. I
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by ojr 4y ago
no tailwind became popular because it introduced the concept of "utility css" and was the pioneer of it, if React included css in the components it would have looked like styled/inline javascript or scss/less or css modu
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by ojr 4y ago
Most of the state of application used to live on the backend but now that has transition to the frontend. Dealing with the state of application is difficult because of edgecases and side effects, React can handle many different domains mobi
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by ojr 4y ago
tailwind is the best utility css library to use with React, you can make components with Angular, React became more popular than Angular because it didn't introduce new concepts like dependency injection and stuck closer to ES6 standar
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by ojr 4y ago
Objective-C message passing/variable declaration's the syntax is so different from C, C++, Java, Javascript, Ruby, Python and other popular OOP languages
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by ojr 4y ago
graphql and react is better than what we were doing 10 years ago and is way easier than rolling your own custom backend and frontend abstractions because react and graphql have a large ecosystem of resources of people using these technologi
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by ojr 4y ago
electric cars cost way too much, homeownership is harder than ever, its hard to see an economy where people are buying a lot of expensive electric cars in bulk in the near future
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by ojr 4y ago
React scales for Facebook level traffic, I doubt there are many use cases where projects need to scale React to serve more users than Facebook
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by ojr 4y ago
google.com/maps is simpler to type on a mobile phone and more consumer friendly, I’ve always used google.com/ pattern, way easier to leverage autocomplete, type a g to autocomplete google.com then if you are looking for flights ty
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by ojr 4y ago
price of bitcoin since 2009 doing fine
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by ojr 4y ago
“this site proudly uses no javascript”, nerdy sites that don’t use modern css and or modern javascript most of the time have subpar user experience, I don’t read past the first sentence, it traps yourself into a niche of developers who don’
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by ojr 4y ago
His book is 1300 pages and $200, an example of an unaffordable college book that will cause some students who can’t afford $200 books in the beginning of the semester to fall behind. The system only wants student who can afford expensive te
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by ojr 4y ago
“electron application”, so many smart people working on optimizing javascript, simplicity wins again
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by ojr 4y ago
I have a WebGL project thats been broken for a few years due to a browser deprecated api, it is not a relatively easy fix
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by ojr 5y ago
Bitcoin has found product market fit with the correct privacy needed for regulators to be happy with it. A few examples of bitcoin privacy shortcomings, doesn’t mean the system isn’t wildly successful. One of the best electric car company i
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by ojr 5y ago
People do this type of lookup today with Cashapp
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by ojr 5y ago
Javascript on the server-side has gone from something that was advised to never be used in production. Now it is so ubiquitous that people are trying to replace it with something new and more strict and less freedom... I am fan of modern ja
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by ojr 5y ago
So correct but also post-2008 underrepresented founders need profits more than ever because they don't fit the narrative, applications like Canva being female-led and Calendly having a black male CEO are examples.
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by ojr 5y ago
Javascript has been so widely used for so long, there are two types of languages one that people hate and one that people don’t use
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by ojr 5y ago
If you want to target multiple platforms (mobile, web, tv) with similar code that 10mb that high value users can load in two seconds with their latest iPhone is worth it
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by ojr 5y ago
storing scarce jpegs is bullshit but decentralize storage definitely is not

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