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by skydhash 2mo ago
What are those supposedly easy CRUD apps that you are working on? The most CRUDy platform I worked on (it was really a collection of forms and lists) was packed full with integrations to external services. To create a new page, you just had
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by skydhash 2mo ago
> you stop caring so much about implementation and start caring about the things that actually matter, the architecture, the performance profile, the scalability, the test coverage, the monitoring, the velocity of development What archit
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The quickest way to clear your backlog is deleting them. /s
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I think you can do the same with tig and lazyvim. Sometimes you just need interactivity.
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> So far the only exception that I've seen of a FOSS piece of software with great UX is Blender. Most OSS software favors power users instead of total beginners. And even Blender is not a great exercise in discoverability. You need
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by skydhash 2mo ago
> Right. But even with a DBA, the possibility remains. We accept that. You're forgetting the element of scale and replication. How easy it is to bribe a DBA of a major platfoms like Gmail? How easy to replicate the same destructive
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The fact is that humans are accountable and this, alongside training, makes it easy to align them to your own goals. There’s always the possibility of rogue individuals (recent Apple incident), but the likelihood is very low. If you have a
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The UI can be confusing at first. Bu take some time to get familiar with it and it can be really nice. The main benefits for me is dealing with poorly formatted epub and sensible viewing of pdf on small screen (kobo libra 2). There’s also O
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by skydhash 3mo ago
> Even back in the 2010s, my need for stackoverflow and google had become minimal. Web search engines are mostly for quick navigation this day as a lot of sites don’t bother with a good navigation menu. It’s faster to search the title of
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> Object orientation could be counted as a separate paradigm but how much different that is from basic imperative programming is already somewhat debatable. There’s OOP with message passing (Smalltalk, Objective C) and there’s OOP with f
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The web is merely a small interface substrate. Spread wide sure, but the bulk of the work is shouldered by the backend. I think if there’s a true winner of the web era, it is languages like Java, C#, Ruby, PHP, and Python. There are many co
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by skydhash 3mo ago
It can be. Think something like a file viewer or a text editor, or a music players. You can probably make do with vanilla javascript, but there’s some threshold where using react to take care of the state<=>ui relationship is worth it
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> and being used in a massive product already? One single product, AFAIK, and one ladden with bugs and issue too.
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> That's why we have recipes, and even they can be modified as long as the exepectation is met: It has to be sweet, soft, covered in something white and must have strawberries inside How sweet? How thick should be the covering? What
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Someone that describes programming like that is strongly suspect IMO. > I'm not wasting mental bandwidth typing out a dozen React components full of the same-old state management, form processing code, etc. Why haven't you abst
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by skydhash 3mo ago
> If I commission a part specified as 10.00 ± 0.01 mm, I can verify it with a calibrated micrometer But there is someone that needs to design that part, specify the material needed and a few other things. The actual verification is fast
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The issue is reliability. I don't need to know the implementation of the database or the lower levels of the network tasks because I trust that they works well. A bug that affects me has a very low chance of occurring and the main risk
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> I feel the use of AWK, SED, GREP and Bash (to name a few) is general waning. I rarely see it outside of HN posts. I wish I were better at using You can find plenty of examples with a quick github search[0]. The query in the url is
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Not shape, but even with napkin math, you can work out the conclusion. Take email vs snail mail. Online ordering vs relying on catalog. The spreadsheet, the word processor, the various CAD software. The key thing is that it's easy to c
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The nice thing with magit is how easy it is to manipulate hunks and line, truly editing commits with a surgical precision, all with an handful of keybindings.
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This very much. First thing built is what get approved. Even if it will generate 10x the workload down the line, because today's quality bar is very much demo level. And then you get paged at 2am because prod is down and the support ch
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by skydhash 3mo ago
> Now "Oh but it's not possible to represent those concepts that we work with visually, only text will do" argument doesn't really hold water since it just demonstrates a lack of imagination to find a way to use other
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An image is not a good representation either. Where is heat? Where is size? Where is gravity? Images are useful, but so is text, each in a different way. The nice thing about text is that it encodes a much larger representation of something
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by skydhash 3mo ago
You're saying that text are 1D, while we're saying that it's not. If it were, we would write text on a long rolling tape. If it were, we would write matrices like this: [1 2 3; 4 5 6; 7 8 9] Instead of |1 2 3| |4
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And also we treat text as an higher dimensional concepts, like the concept of lines and indentations. Jumping around in code navigation, the tree structure in code organization. The separation of mutable semantics for the code in our projec
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> Saying that farming is more intellectually challenging than writing or programming is plain ridiculous and counterproductive to whatever argument you were trying to make. I’m not saying that. You invented it on your own. What I’ve been
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Then you'll also says that a printer is more intelligent than most of humanity because it can replicate a drawing better than any painter. Or that the ipod is a better musician, etc,... I can't be amazed at tools. I only applaud t
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Better code and better prose are not great indicators of intelligence. Can it help you survive in the middle of the jungle? Can it grow rice? Can it give you first aid? Intelligence is the ability to learn skills and adapt them to the situa
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It can come up with something novel, but only by combining whatever present, which can be granular enough to be completely different. But to truly nudge it, you need precise prompting and a good harness. But I’m more likely to credit those
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We are. My main point was that it's not worth it to disparage others because of their rule. Unless there's a contract or other legal clause, everyone is free to do whatever with their stuff. It's wholly a matter of trust. And

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