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by onion2k 2y ago
Whether Vite, or Svelte, or Vanilla JS, when you start stuffing a site with all these tracking pixels and other junk, they are all horrible. They're definitely horrible from a moral standpoint, but if you look at the flamechart of JS
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by onion2k 2y ago
Where can I get these buttons today for my children? You could give the Nintendo Switch games to lick instead.
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by onion2k 2y ago
Presumably, if there were a way for the headlights to comply with both US and EU regulations, they'd just have them be that way everywhere... Unless someone in the marketing department has determined that headlight brightness is a se
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by onion2k 2y ago
Sometimes the technology isn't the problem, it's the people. It's always a people problem.
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by onion2k 2y ago
The single greatest restaurant trick is to give the table one wine list, so they're much more inclined to share several bottles instead of each drinking what they want.
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by onion2k 2y ago
It says PR comments benefit the reviewer in some way, and they're not always left to improve the code or to help the person who opened the PR. For example, if you work in a culture where being seen to leave PR comments is seen as posit
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by onion2k 2y ago
They could, but it's IBM so any 'lite' version wouldn't stay lite for very long. They mostly excel at making huge, complicated things to sell to other huge, complicated businesses. They aren't very interested in, or
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by onion2k 2y ago
I think there's something missing from this analysis - YC companies might duplicate one another's products but that doesn't say anything at all about their target markets, route to market, product focus, etc. As an example,
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by onion2k 2y ago
That's the opposite of what the paper says. If the coin was biased you'd expect it to land on heads more often regardless of what side it starts on. The coins land on the side they start on more often.
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by onion2k 2y ago
Safari is the last man standing before a ChromeOS world. Except it isn't. Maybe I'm being slightly obtuse here, but the world is not "Chrome Vs Safari". It's "Chrome Vs Safari Vs native apps". If Safari
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by onion2k 2y ago
Everything is designed to last between a few years and a decade, with the expectation that there's no point engineering for longer than that because something better will replace it by then. This feels bad but it's generally cor
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by onion2k 2y ago
Would it still have been an 'underground scene' if everyone went?
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by onion2k 2y ago
A much simpler way to do this is to move to a country or join a company where you get a lot of vacation days, and then you don't need to worry about it.
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by onion2k 2y ago
People use Google Search despite it being littered with adverts and tracking. Maybe Google are counting on either being better than the competition despite watermarking, or simply accepting that people who don't care are enough of a ma
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by onion2k 2y ago
I use Jellyfish. Happy to have a chat. Fire me an email. :)
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by onion2k 2y ago
I made an Elevnty website for my partner's business. It was a great experience. It worked well and was easy to code. After I came back to update it 3 years later by cloning the repo and running 'npm i' I got a bunch of errors
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by onion2k 2y ago
I don't even look at the metrics for ICs. If a team has an underperformer I expect the lead to be handling that, with my support if necessary. The metrics I find useful are things like trends before and after a change. For example, if
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by onion2k 2y ago
It's the job of a manager to know what their reports are up to, and whether they're doing a good job of it, and are generally effective. That's true, but it's not what employee metrics tools tell you. If you're us
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by onion2k 2y ago
It's worse than that. All Pichai has to do is say "We're not laying off anyone who works in <some tiny department in the basement of Mountain View with 4 people> " and suddenly it's no longer a "companyw
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by onion2k 2y ago
But it's a reasonable perspective of Jobs that doesn't conflict with this statement. That's what I'm saying. From Jobs' perspective it was a feature for Apple, because Jobs believed only Apple devices matter. For
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by onion2k 2y ago
no one is stating "we've replaced X% of our workforce with AI" That's only worth doing if you're trying to cut costs though. If the company has unmet ambitions there's no reason to shrink the headcount from 1
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by onion2k 2y ago
That could just be the context though. Listening to a clip that's a demo of what the model can produce is very different to listening to a YouTube video that's using the model to generate speech about something you'd actually
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by onion2k 2y ago
A feature of what ? Surely Jobs didn't expect a feature of Windows, OSX, Android, Linux, and ChromeOS to all seamlessly interact with one another. I don't doubt that Jobs might have seen Dropbox as a feature that Apple could have
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by onion2k 2y ago
That's quite unlikely. If Dropbox could save a decent amount of their engineering effort using LLMs with 20% less people, then they could also increase their engineering effort by a decent amount using LLMs and keeping the same workfor
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by onion2k 2y ago
they always fire the weak employees This is definitely not the case. Companies use a lot of different mechanisms to choose who to lay off, and it's rarely entirely performance based.
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by onion2k 2y ago
The whole thing just sounds like a gargantuan mess. Most apps are a gargantuan mess. It's just a mess that mostly works. In a typical large scale web app written in something like Node or PHP, I wouldn't be at all surprised if 9
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by onion2k 2y ago
boilerplate and outer app layers, yes; architecture and core libraries, no That's what you want though, isn't it? Especially the boilerplate bit. Reduce the time spent on the repetitive things that provide no unique functionalit
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by onion2k 2y ago
General consensus on HN is generally wrong. I think everyone here would agree with that. ;)
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by onion2k 2y ago
In 26 years of web dev, mostly as a frontend person, I've only seen zero width spaces in three situations - pasting from Word - QA testers being through - devs pranking each other The third one is by far the most common. Word is much
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Do they expect this to be a $1 trillion company, even then the return would be a modest 20x. The ideal end game for self-driving taxis is replacing personally-owned cars. Instead of anyone having a car of their own they'd just order

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