onion2k

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by onion2k 2y ago
There are many ways to shoot yourself in the foot.
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by onion2k 2y ago
The moral of the story is somewhat diminished by the story being a lie, though, don't you believe? It's illustrating a point. The truth the meme demonstrates is still very real.
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by onion2k 2y ago
Ah, the curse of knowledge. The author is clearly very experienced in his domain, so when a daft-but-useful meme happened to stray across into an area he knows about he felt empowered to refute it. The problem is that the meme, like most me
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by onion2k 2y ago
It's not that uncommon in some languages where you have a long running monolith (.NET, Java, etc) instead of an instance of something that spins up per request (Node, PHP, etc). If someone does something silly like setting the session
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by onion2k 2y ago
Fail fast shouldn't mean fail always... 'Fail' in this context mostly means 'choose to use resources to do other things'. Alphabet has certainly learned a huge amount from all of these ventures, and that doesn&#x2
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by onion2k 2y ago
Just define 'good' as 'not explicitly evil', and you're fine.
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by onion2k 2y ago
Better VR tech won't make people buy VR. You could literally offer them a Star Trek holodeck and they still wouldn't buy in. People don't buy it because they don't see the point. This was even true in Star Trek . People
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by onion2k 2y ago
They are going ALL OUT Just like they did for their metaverse play, and that didn't work out very well.
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by onion2k 2y ago
Was the bar just higher? In web dev interviews, in the UK, the bar was much lower. It was rare to be asked anything that resembled a leetcode question. Everything was focused around the technology stack you'd be using, the culture of
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by onion2k 2y ago
In the Scratch language blocks connect to each other like jigsaw pieces for internal function logic.
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by onion2k 2y ago
many of our users have asked for RSS feeds as output If your users are asking for it then it's locally popular regardless of how much use it gets on the general internet, and therefore it should be important to you. Local popularit
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by onion2k 2y ago
Web apps can do all those things already without an LLM.
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by onion2k 2y ago
My first impression is that this should enable approximately what Apple is doing with their AI strategy (local on-device first, then filling back to a first party API, and finally something like ChatGPT), but for web users. Having it native
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by onion2k 2y ago
Im sorry but encryption isn't that hard. Login isn't that hard. Session management isn't that hard. Verifying you haven't broken any of these things is hard, and monitoring for breaches when you have a lot of legitim
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by onion2k 2y ago
I don't quite understand the use case for this sort of app (generating a nice changelog from a well structured commit history.) In my experience if your team is disciplined enough to use something like Conventional Commit rigorously yo
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by onion2k 2y ago
They could have easily auctioned off/sold very old content to someone else.. That assumes they own the exclusive rights to the content. A lot of media has many rights holders (writers, music, etc), and you need to get them all to agr
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by onion2k 2y ago
This really only tells us that there's nothing special about digital archives. They can come and go just like physical archives. If you want something to be available for longer than it's commercial lifespan you need to put it in
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by onion2k 2y ago
Around the same time (2001) I worked for a startup that was doing the same thing but with Flash instead of HTML. We were building European export forms. People really liked the UI side of it.
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by onion2k 2y ago
When I started building websites professionally (in 1998) we had an adage that people used all the time to talk about how to get traffic to your website: "content is king!" It was a play on the "cash is king" motto of sm
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by onion2k 2y ago
Whether you think the algorithms are bad or not depends on whether you see the algorithm as separate to the outcome of the algorithm. Algorithms are designed to surface content for maximum engagement, and the fact that they do this very wel
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by onion2k 2y ago
Cleanups are nice and all but you gotta stop the bleeding where it starts. There's a multi-trillion dollar startup just waiting for you to solve that problem.
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by onion2k 2y ago
Good result. There's rarely such a thing as a clear, objectively simple 'good result' for this sort of action because outcomes have knock-on effects. For example, if the North Koreans responsible for maintaining internet ac
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by onion2k 2y ago
Anything can be 'resume driven design'. If someone is rewarded with a raise, promotion, or even just praise sometimes, for applying a technology to a problem without being required to prove if the technology is appropriate they&
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by onion2k 2y ago
Have you told him you feel this way? One of my biggest annoyances with devs is that they rarely give "upward feedback". They expect their manager to just magically know how to manage them, and they complain if their boss gets it w
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by onion2k 2y ago
Any slow app would be just as slow if the team had built it using different tech, because it's the design of the software that makes it slow, not the framework. There is no framework that has a "pit of success" that makes it
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by onion2k 2y ago
The numbers are against us.
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by onion2k 2y ago
That suggests aliens won't find Voyager until it reaches their star system. If that's the case they probably aren't an interstellar species, and they'll never find us, or visit us. I was assuming they'd detect it wh
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by onion2k 2y ago
If an alien species can spot something as tiny as Voyager but doesn't notice our activity on Earth which is just a stone's throw away, I doubt they're a threat. If an alien species finds Voyager in 10,000 years and tracks it
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by onion2k 2y ago
Whatever.
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by onion2k 2y ago
The irony of being an early engineering employee (and any engineer really) is that the better job you do the easier it is to replace you with someone who can maintain what you built. Accepting a below market salary and then doing a great

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