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by sam0x17 3y ago
It's crazy to me they didn't see the value in porting actionscript to something that compiles to JS/HTML5, though adobe couldn't be trusted to see this potential obviously. If they had something like that ready in ~2011
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by sam0x17 3y ago
We're on HN, friend ;)
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Yeah, if companies recognized this properly, they would incentivize employees to stay, and would avoid things like layoffs at all costs. Google used to do this in the early days when they believed their #1 resource was human capital. Then t
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Any scenario where the actual hack results in the time-honored trope/misunderstanding of "hacking" the password one character at a time is awesome
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by sam0x17 3y ago
The average in this industry (startups) is ~2 years at best so that's a bit close-minded. A lot of startups don't even make it to the two year mark. 5 years is like a century. At Google average tenure is 1.1 years, so looks like F
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by sam0x17 3y ago
#1 item that should be there and is missing is: "My first job will promote me and raise my salary when I "become" a senior dev"
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by sam0x17 3y ago
It’s funny, gpt 4.5 I’ve been able to use to write 100% of my database migrations with little coaxing for the past few months.
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case in point: one of the root system prompts leaked out recently and it's pretty clear the "laziness" on a number of fronts is directly because of the root system prompt.
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As a closeted gay teen at the time, this stuff was very next level
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another key thing is you need SOC 2 or ISO right out of the gate. We actually had to do that at Arist when they were seed stage because all the customers are literally FANG and fortune 500s which require such certifications to even do busin
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by sam0x17 3y ago
It makes me miss the pre-acquisition-by-akamai days at Linode, particularly in the 2010s it was quite easy to simply respond with "thanks for letting me know, the user in question has been banned" and go right back to torrenting
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Yeah people forget this a lot, browsers used to largely disagree with each other, and jQuery was the only sensible glue that could hold a codebase together in that regard
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by sam0x17 3y ago
It's funny, I just spent a bunch of time removing the last vestiges of react for a company, replacing it with HTMX, which imo is the spiritual successor to jQuery in some ways
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Hell lets not forget trying to do this back in the Mono days when Microsoft specifically didn't want you to run .NET on anything but Windows.
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Every (startup) project I've ever abandoned I've eventually regretted abandoning, over the course of my life 5 times if I'm counting right, things like "there actually was a market for that", "with what I know
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by sam0x17 3y ago
FileBot is your friend ;)
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by sam0x17 3y ago
I honestly haven't had a single instance yet where I didn't regret abandoning it ~5 years later when something similar took off
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by sam0x17 3y ago
That's venture capital for you..
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by sam0x17 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31772847 source: was one of the affected LLCs. Went to Mercury and never looked back!
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by sam0x17 3y ago
I guess this is what happens 1.5 years later when you decide to kick all LLCs off from using your platform and they all go to use your competitors instead
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Startups DEFINITELY have been looking at it this way for the last decade, to the point where I only know of a few startups that still have physical offices out of the hundreds I interact with in various capacities. Give it a few more years
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Sure, but imagine if someone had patented the wheel and decided not to license it to anyone...
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by sam0x17 3y ago
The debate is dramatically simplified when you take into account the gargantuan environmental impact of maintaining massive 24/7 climate-controlled office spaces that are vacant other than 40 hours a week (vacant for 75% of the week) a
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Sure, you can make a slippery slope argument, but there is something substantially more "fictional" / artificial / unnatural about copyright/IP than currencies and other social constructs you are equivocating with.
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by sam0x17 3y ago
wow it's crazy to see all the marketing babble that has evolved since we all just used adwords/adsense, doubleclick, web rings, and affiliate programs without really thinking about it in the early 00s and didn't have made up
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by sam0x17 3y ago
I used to believe this, but the sad reality of modern society is that the current "meta" is suppressing viewpoints that damage society from your point of view, and if you decide not to play the meta by, say, opting for carte blanc
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by sam0x17 3y ago
> October 5th- Google paid $1337 for the issue love the tongue-and-cheek "leet" amount of 1337
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by sam0x17 3y ago
I do wish we could go back to how things were in the early 00s where view source on any page was extremely telling and would show you cleanly formatted code. Another huge reason for the status quo is a lot of companies actively try to obfus
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by sam0x17 3y ago
> Back in the Bootstrap 3 days, there used to be a customizer. There is still a quite good bootstrap customizer at bootstrap.build btw ;)
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by sam0x17 3y ago
Worth mentioning that SE isn't even a thing for the most part at non STEM-specific schools and/or outside very large colleges/universities

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