rafterydj

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by rafterydj 3mo ago
Yes but Qt comes with the drawbacks of being tied to Qt. With Electron + React, you'd be able to rip out any components you need and place them in other web apps. The browser is (psychologically) avoiding vendor dependencies to a great
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by rafterydj 3mo ago
Man, I've really been falling into his stuff. So refreshing to hear someone speak from a perspective of care. It's good for my soul in this world of slop.
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by rafterydj 3mo ago
Not a product manager but I habitually try to play devil's advocate as one. I think it's popularity, full stop. You _could_ vibe code a native app no problem - but then you're targeting one set of hardware. If you're alr
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by rafterydj 3mo ago
I don't think we can stop publishers from rent-seeking behavior, I am only trying to get at the idea that we should clearly communicate to a user when something is truly bought and owned vs rented. If that information is clearly and lo
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by rafterydj 3mo ago
I do as well, but I think it's good practice to put something like in a user preference setting somewhere if you are going to stray from default browser/system behavior.
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by rafterydj 3mo ago
> You're calling for legislating software architecture for a subset of software that is different to how it works everywhere else in the tech industry. I am not even sure that's true, even in the limited scope of "we'
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by rafterydj 3mo ago
The classic SKG example is The Crew. Where is the indie recreation of the Continental USA to drive around? Indie games are great, but let's not act like art is fungible. I don't like the idea of "they will just find loopholes
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by rafterydj 3mo ago
Agreed that thinking about the natural progression of today's circumstances are painful to think about, and about the death of intellectualism. However, I'd like to play devil's advocate here, and speak to your "without
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by rafterydj 4mo ago
You're phrasing of "could have been a good payday" makes me think about why people pay for software at all. The bread and butter "quick job, get paid" gigs in software were always circumstantial and depended on huma
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by rafterydj 4mo ago
I agree with you. I think that if we're talking about actual reliable problem solving, we have to be discussing robotic / drone systems. Software is as complex as you want to make it, and always has been.
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by rafterydj 4mo ago
If you are trying to say that it's not just Meta but all tech giants, you have an oddly defensive way to make that point. Just because the entire industry was doing bad things does not absolve the largest members of the industry from d
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by rafterydj 4mo ago
Facebook is forcing people to use Facebook. If there were realistic alternative social network systems that allowed account migration with contacts and messages, Facebook would be dead in the water. You can't seriously argue that every
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by rafterydj 4mo ago
Putting Meta next to Netflix in terms of moral culpability is in my opinion laughable. I don't disagree that there are reasons people compromise on things like the morality of their employer - tale as old as society itself. I do disagr
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by rafterydj 4mo ago
Could you elaborate on this?
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by rafterydj 4mo ago
Wow. I've essentially been circling that exact thought for awhile now. But your blunt phrasing really strikes a chord with me.
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by rafterydj 4mo ago
Here is the problem with the idea of "banning online advertising" - there is a large amount of people who spend a lot of time online. To the point that even small local businesses will buy advertisement space on social media. If s
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by rafterydj 4mo ago
This is in all likelihood an improvement on just measuring lines of code output, but not at all a silver bullet. I'd imagine this skews heavily towards developers who were around first in large projects. Also skews towards developers w
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by rafterydj 4mo ago
There has to be some language for what you're describing, because I've experienced similar perceptions of people. I've been on both sides of the "you don't actually understand what is being said until years later&qu
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by rafterydj 4mo ago
I see arguments like this particularly against Electron and the web development sphere in general and I think it's more nuanced than either programmers or "marketing" (read: anyone not a programmer) gives credit towards. The
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by rafterydj 4mo ago
100% agree. The spam problem is, I fear, a symptom of the walled gardens of Google and Apple not being very judiciously maintained. They continue to push the bare minimum of notification controls out for the user, but double deal when they
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by rafterydj 4mo ago
I'm glad I'm not the only who seemingly has a taste for "older" diagrams from that period. It makes me think of the same aesthetic roots of what's now called "cassette futurism" or "NASA-punk". O
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by rafterydj 4mo ago
Maybe this is me being a little wet behind the ears, but I don't know if lifestyle businesses are really possible to start at the moment, given the uncertainty of the current software sector. See this thread from a few days ago: http
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by rafterydj 5mo ago
That's really interesting. Are there any things you advocate for with respect to curtailing those practices? I hesitate to throw all liability on the individual, but I don't see how we can even legislate this category of behavior,
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by rafterydj 5mo ago
+1 for any mention of Fred Brooks. I like your point about software as a whole not being a bottleneck. In the 1970s the hardware was co-evolving with business uses (it still is, but constraints were much more severe) leading to large headco
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by rafterydj 5mo ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted, your comment seems interesting to me.
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by rafterydj 5mo ago
> Hacker news and r/programming is only good to get general ideas and keep up-to-date. The comments are almost worthless. LOL can't disagree with that opinion.
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by rafterydj 6mo ago
For my money, while surely it must have been jarring, that experience would seem to say that on-device LLMs are more important programming tools than package repositories. As another commenter said, the affordability of LLM subscriptions (o
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by rafterydj 6mo ago
Man, I completely agree with your thinking here. I've been trying to be more active in online communities, to try to discuss this exact idea. LLM code can be leveraged, but pretending that tokens are just going to turn into money print
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by rafterydj 6mo ago
I feel the future includes the sentiments you describe. It was a little before my time professionally, but I grew up reading that kind of thinking. I do think that the open web stuff, decentralized, or at least more decentralized than curre
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by rafterydj 6mo ago
Well, redistributing their money is (in some cases disingenuously) exactly how they are able to pitch investors. "Sure, value my company at $10B and my shares make me $2B, but we're alllllll gonna make money when hit AGI!!!"

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