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by ratww 4y ago
The real world is also a cesspool filled with crazy people and people trying to abuse the system (something analogous to bots). Also spammers and harassers. The difference is that on the real world public squares there’s no amplification ef
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by ratww 4y ago
Sorta unrelated, but I see the existence of engines to also be sort of a problem for Open Source libraries too. They create sort of a maintenance bottleneck. In other areas where open source is more prevalent (like web dev), there will be v
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by ratww 4y ago
I think the open source community can definitely do something cool like this. Although good UX has been historically the Achilles Heel of open source, I believe the focus would help a lot in this regard. No need to worry about the engine pa
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by ratww 4y ago
IMO this coupling happens mostly on purpose. It's just vertical integration, Apple style. It seems to be in the interest of "engine" makers to make people think that a smaller engine without an editor can't succeed, and
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by ratww 4y ago
The point is not that everyone should live in a passivhaus. The point is that better insulation can help reducing energy consumption. Not best: better. Those are two different words. No, you don't need a passivhaus, but the passivhau
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by ratww 4y ago
I make a point to flag it. It's too low effort and people tend to pile in. Really wish there as a rule or automation against it.
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by ratww 4y ago
I honestly hate them all at this point. Overused crap that kills discussions, overused by uncreative people.
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by ratww 4y ago
"The alternative"? What? Funny, that's another pet peeve with Hacker News. Posts that are phrased as if there's only two ways things could go and they're black or white, and completely unrealistic to anyone spending
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by ratww 4y ago
I agree that these things suck. I had a very similar experience in a few startups/scaleups. They were incredibly successful despite the horrible tech and horrible environment for development. IME the reasons for that are often due a cu
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by ratww 4y ago
Wow, thanks for the story. The original poster also made a thread about the middleware [1], and there's a video about it too [2] [1] https://twitter.com/mcfunley/status/1194713712516423681 [2] https:/&#
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by ratww 4y ago
There are definitely systems that are monostrosities (monoliths that are monstrosities), but the worst places have microstrosities.
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by ratww 4y ago
Oh, similar experience here. We'd often download the episode and watch at work too.
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by ratww 4y ago
Those are actually the good ones. I'd love to work at those. As opposed to the monstrosities I often see in some unicorns and well-funded places.
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by ratww 4y ago
Oh I completely forgot about politics. This kinda thing definitely seeped into politics. Especially with Facebook memes, even my parents couldn't escape those :( And yep, programmers in 2022 are definitely not a group known for origina
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by ratww 4y ago
Thanks!
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by ratww 4y ago
I would say hotels are better in general, sure, but there's plenty of exceptions. The worst for me was a hotel in Paris I booked via Booking.com. It was completely different from the announced, and had several issues, such as having an
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by ratww 4y ago
Oh, don't get me wrong: I really like useful information like the one in the CGP Grey video you mentioned, and also things like regional/cultural information that is part of "shared culture". Same for things like TV show
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by ratww 4y ago
Well, sorta but not really! I kinda expect old forums (and old friends!) to have the same old lingo from before and be set in their ways. But the crazy thing to me is that this happens with new venues and new people too. I not-so-recently m
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by ratww 4y ago
Yep, that's the second worst XKCD! :D
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by ratww 4y ago
Exactly. This, to me, is the major downside. Anything outside the norm in subcultures, subgroups, hobby communities, is left to wither and die.
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by ratww 4y ago
That doesn’t bother me at all, because I never heard of it! Maybe I should start participating in Star Trek discussions!
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by ratww 4y ago
Well, it’s not really about specific subcultures, the Autotune comment for example was from random people from different walks of life, different ages. It's just that I happen to work with it sometimes, and I slip some mad facts into c
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by ratww 4y ago
Well it kinda is, in the online communities it kinda is. The vocal majority watches the same things, buys the same things, decides to sell the no-longer-new things after the hype cycle is over, has pedalboards organized in the N approved wa
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by ratww 4y ago
I don't know. I think since 2010 so many shared experiences coming from the internet that it actually became rare to learn new stuff from conversations. That's a huge pet peeve of mine. All my guitar playing friends watch the same
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by ratww 4y ago
Even if they're using agile, it's up to the customer to ask for deliverables that they care about if they want them. Of course it would be much better if the agency were honest, but if for seven months the deliverables were only &
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by ratww 4y ago
That's not entirely wrong, but Scrum is also great for high-trust environments where you want to have deliverables from sprint one. And it is actually more useful when things are flipped, and the team doesn't really trust the cl
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by ratww 4y ago
I agree that there's a lot of wiggle room, but there's still some ground rules, like being iterative, not having to plan for everything beforehand, deliver smaller things little by little, not being a perfectionist and turning the
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by ratww 4y ago
It is completely possible (and actually more probable) that you worked less, even though you delivered more and better. Agencies and Consultings aren’t simply overcharging. They’re also weaponising incompetence and inefficiency so they can
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by ratww 4y ago
This is why I still like Agile and Scrum, as much as other devs might hate it. “Yeah I want REAL deliverables after the first or second week”. Keeps me honest. And will keep me from working with architecture astronauts don’t really deliver
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by ratww 4y ago
I have also worked with several honest people who were motivated to do their best, in the most effective way. Actually almost everyone I ever worked with was like that. All the exceptions were agency/consulting people. Their job is b

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