rorylaitila

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by rorylaitila 1y ago
The conflict will definitely help define the terms. Maybe they will all choose "Movie", maybe not. Just there is no universally ideal term that represents a concept for all users for all time. It's a common error to seek such
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No, because context and use defines the meaning. To the data team, a "Movie" might mean a file on disk. To the finance team, a "Movie" might mean a contract to a studio. To the Customer, a "Movie" is something
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
Good luck. This is not new. Back in the Enterprise OOP era, there was a fad of developing universal data entities. Everyone eventually learned that there is no such thing as a universal entity. The semantic meaning of the data model depends
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
Constraints in one dimension can allow unconstrained movement in another dimension. I use this all of the time in my revenue consulting. A classic example: given fixed costs, if you constrain margin, price must be unconstrained and be free
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Nice! And thank you. Yeah I am also cataloging all of the small ads, local or obscure. I want to see what trends I find in them. But they admittedly are not that interesting, unless you are looking for that product. The 1990s and after are
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
I love the web. You can build almost any UI. It's constantly getting new tools. I think it's a 100 year platform. I stay sane by shipping HTML over the wire from server rendered handlebars templates (Java/Lucee) against a MyS
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
I like how snappy and easy HeidiSQL is, I still use it when I need to manually twiddle some bit. But it's buggy and I don't write any SQL in it as I've lost enough code mid writing. DBeaver is my daily driver now.
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I used to really burn out before I ever got any traction. Basing motivation on any external reward is just too hard, too much of the time. I work now on multiple business projects that interest me. Short term my paying clients, medium term
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
I can sum it up like this: if I could know in advance the exact right thing to build, producing the physical code, has not for a long time, been the bottleneck. I've been vibe coding long before it was cool. It's sometimes called
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Thanks! Yeah, I've had to scale back my ambitions a lot to even make a dent in the backlog...
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I think it's a problem with the cache, seems to be intermittent I'll take a look.
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Cool thank you! I'll work on this.
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Thank you! Yeah I agree, I'm hoping I'll see some interesting trends I can write about.
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
Thank you!
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Thanks, good idea
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Thank you! Yep I'm thinking about that. Any input as to the use case? The catalog is a full web application I've developed. I'm currently only publishing the best ads to the site for now to not clutter it up. But I could offe
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Thank you, will do!
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Thank you! I've written a web application (I call the adverdex) to assist the process and automatically publish to the site. Magazines are inventoried, then camera images taken for each ad. Each image is cleaned up and cropped, then I
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Yep! I feel ads capture a certain authenticity of the time. Changing aspirations, preferences and values.
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Thank you! Yep, just photographed. I considered scanning but because of the volume I need to save every second possible of effort per ad. I have about 50k ads already and that is at best only 1% of the source material out there! Only full p
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
Thanks for the offer! I need the physical magazines in hand to catalog, so if you want to part with them let me know. It can be a little pricey to ship a lot of paper but if you're up for it, my connect details are in my profile.
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Thank you!
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I've been collecting and digitizing vintage print advertisements and publishing them ( https://adretro.com ). I have tens of thousands of ads in the collection and it would take me many lifetimes to complete, but I've be
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Yep I agree, that "20%" UI is mostly custom view-models to give the right UX. MDD is great for development, but users' brains don't exactly fit the model perfectly, particularly for read views. For write functions howeve
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Yep, it can fall down if you force it everywhere. Read views are typically where custom "view models" are needed. For example on my current project with ~30 tables/models ( https://humancrm.io ), there are only a co
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by rorylaitila 1y ago
I've always been a fan of Model Driven Development (MDD), which is by today's standards an ancient paradigm. You define the core data model (resources), properties (attributes), and actions, and auto-generate the UI/API. It w
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I start by building products for myself that I know solve my problem, so at least I have a user of 1. Then I try to get to 10 users personally through my personal network. This helps me validate how easy acquisition and onboarding will be.
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I'm 20 year full stack developer who also does a lot of sales. So I have somewhat of a unique experience in both the technical and human sides of AI use. I use AI quite liberally for development, research, and troubleshooting. But on t
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With AI coding it makes projects even faster to get started. Like anything else, total cost will be dominated by long tail problems. Vibe coding can't solve the longest tail problem of "am I building the right thing?" These i
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The addiction to constant phone use is definitely a negative, but I haven't found daydreaming to be a positive. Before smart phones in particular I was a super daydreamer. I think for many people like myself, it opens and exercises the

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