sanderjd

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by sanderjd 1y ago
Because the arbitrary scoring makes it clear that it was just corruption, designed for the answers to be given to some people ahead of time, so that you could hire them instead of other people, backed by (artificial) data. People don't
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Yeah the way the points are arbitrary makes it very clear that the intention is for only people who know the answers ahead of time to pass. It was an underhanded way to do favoritism (by giving out the answers to the associations whose back
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Yeah exactly. This administration is even more corrupt and favoritist. That doesn't mean this hiring scandal is not bad, it is, it's just that you can't solve corruption with even more corruption.
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by sanderjd 1y ago
That's true. But it's essentially impossible to have that many comments if "there is no debate". Comment threads where everyone just says "I agree with you!" over and over again just don't happen.
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by sanderjd 1y ago
I mean, it's that digital "places" are not nearly as good as physical places, is the sense a lot of us have. I've seen some people who have good descriptions or arguments for why they think this is true. But for me, it&#
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by sanderjd 1y ago
A better comment would assume that this person has indeed researched feudalism and would criticize the analogy based on that assumption.
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Yes but if it turns out that you really are building an application, but you didn't think you were up front, it is likely that you started to add "just a little bit of js here and there", because after all each little thing y
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Maybe. Personally I haven't come across this phenomenon. But I haven't worked on this type of system in a very long time, so it's probably different perspective from different experience.
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by sanderjd 1y ago
I'm not suggesting building a complex system from scratch. I'm suggesting building systems using tools designed to support the kind of system you're building. Do you think your quote is true in all cases? Or are you implying
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What is your philosophy?
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For an imagined future. If you're building something with specifications, then what are we even talking about? You know what you need to build so just build that. But this thread is about what to do when you don't know. "Star
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You never have a definitive answer. It's always probabilistic. You make the decision that you think has the highest odds of success at every point in time.
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There is significant path dependency in either direction. A sibling comment to yours described it very well. There really isn't a good substitute for understanding early on whether you're going to be making a website or an applica
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Nailed it. And a lot of people who say "this sounds like an application, let's pick an application framework to use" from the start are people who have experienced what you're currently experiencing. But it's very h
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Sites vs. applications. It's important to know which you're building.
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by sanderjd 1y ago
It's funny that you use self driving cars as a negative example. We have a perfect natural experiment to look at to compare the slower research-driven approach (Waymo) to the "normal company" short term profit driven approach
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These aren't contradictory ideas. Governments should fund more research and should also make it free.
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I'm pretty sympathetic to both sides of this. I don't really know the history well enough to say whether you're right that breaking up AT&T "helped lead to the modern internet". But even stipulating that it did,
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Wait, is the suggestion here just about crawling and storing the data? That's a very different thing than "Google's search index"... And yeah, I would agree that it is undifferentiated.
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Or at least, more impractical :)
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Although I did wonder later on why they couldn't have gone through the Straits of Magellan on the journey west. Presumably it was even more difficult for large ships to navigate that narrow and presumably shallow passage.
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But they aren't actually prescribed for these things (yet?), right?
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Well we can agree to disagree about this one :) What I've seen people use it for to, in my opinion, great effect is to demonstrate capabilities that exist, but for which there are many different possibilities for how to combine and pre
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Yep, this article is a good example of one way that c++ is bad, but it's not really a great example of rust being particularly good; many other languages support this well. I'm very glad Rust is one of those languages though!
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I think it reflects the technology's fundamental immaturity, despite how much growth and success it has already had.
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Yeah I think we largely agree. But I do know people, mostly experienced product managers, who are excited about "vibecoding" expressly as a prototyping / demo creation tool, which can be useful in conjunction with people who
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They should do this, but this is not the entirety of what they do.
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by sanderjd 1y ago
I haven't found any of the jetbrains options (including Windsurf) nearly as satisfying to use as Cursor. But YMMV I guess!
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I'm frankly very skeptical of your last paragraph. That's not at all what seems useful to me. But we'll see! But I agree with you about the first part, and I think it's awesome for me as a user that all this competition
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The way I see this is that it's just another skill differentiator that you can take advantage of if you can get it right. That is, if it's true that abstraction and architecture are useful for a given product, then people who know

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