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by twodave 1y ago
They’re inherently very different activities. Refactoring a file assumes you’ve made a ton of choices already and are just following a pattern (something LLMs are actually great at). Building a front-end from nothing requires a lot of thoug
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by twodave 1y ago
Interesting! I thought that was implied by my use of the word “clutter,” since that’s how I think of the term.
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by twodave 1y ago
No, and on a cursory look it doesn’t seem very aligned with our goals anyhow.
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by twodave 1y ago
I thought the context of my comment made it obvious. Unneeded and unnecessary items cluttering up your home are to me akin to leaves in the garage. It inconveniences me every time I have to step around or over them, clear space to set a dri
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by twodave 1y ago
Yeah, I can understand that sentiment. We’ve done this since I graduated from college, when I was making about 1/10 annually what I am now, though. As I said, you get pretty good at knowing what is worth keeping. Besides, even with a l
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by twodave 1y ago
This is such an understated take IMO. In our house we are constantly moving things out to reduce clutter, get rid of unneeded items and, maybe most of all, eliminate the stress of just knowing they’re there. Sometimes we get rid of somethin
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by twodave 1y ago
We have some other projects that are Angular, and NextJS was sort of a proof of concept for us. The goal is to just have one front-end framework for our devs to work with (and keep up to date, ugh!), so we’re folding those deploys back into
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by twodave 1y ago
It’s really more so because it’s Microsoft. And this is a shame, since C# has been IMO one of the great languages for at least 5 years now (C# 9/.NET 5), and has only gotten better since then.
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by twodave 1y ago
Oh, yes, this we can agree on.
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by twodave 1y ago
FWIW I’d love it if HN adopted such a policy. It’s not practical to expect them to, but I find myself taking breaks to avoid the echo chamber here.
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by twodave 1y ago
That’s funny, after using it on a couple projects I felt that it was under-engineered/lacked some basic things I was used to having in other frameworks.
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by twodave 1y ago
We used NextJS on a couple of projects where I work and are already phasing them out. The reasons are manifold, but a few key factors: * difficult auth story. next-auth is limited in a few ways that drove us to use iron-session, such as not
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by twodave 1y ago
Probably something like ASP.NET MVC with C#
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by twodave 1y ago
In my experience, language skill may or may not matter for programming, but it certainly matters for understanding a problem space. You can be a great programmer, building the wrong thing because you didn’t understand the requirements or se
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by twodave 1y ago
I wanted to say something like this, but in the opposite direction. I think perhaps more so there’s a difference between abstract and concrete thinking? But tests like the SAT in my experience (which is now 20 years out of date) treat the v
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by twodave 1y ago
It feels like we are seeing the beginnings of somewhat permanent deglobalization. What happens if the US decides they just want to trade with South America, Canada and Western Europe and stops doing business with the rest (including pulling
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by twodave 1y ago
I don’t think anyone who understands geopolitics can agree with this take. China has been able to (for a time) sustain this kind of rapid industrialization because of globalization, a model of hyper-inflation and by taking advantage of wage
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by twodave 1y ago
In truth, rubber-ducking doesn’t even require anyone to listen. I find this practice of “step back and describe the system again” to be useful anytime an assumption changes, though I guess it isn’t limited to that. In my own work change of
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by twodave 1y ago
I doubt it. I’ve described the issue to multiple eye doctors, none of whom mentioned this. It’s literally a psychedelic looking jagged line in my vision (which I can see with either of my eyes closed, superimposed over my vision). I’d think
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by twodave 1y ago
I’ve had visual migraines ever since I started training hard with weights. Played sports in High School and never had one, but suddenly I’m doing CrossFit in my late 30s and an hour after a workout I get these sparkly jagged lines in my vis
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by twodave 1y ago
To clarify, for those who seem not to have RTFA but are downvoting (I can only assume based on perceived sexism since nobody has been brave enough to comment)—-the parent was quoting an article written by a working father, who said his inte
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by twodave 1y ago
In some ways yes, but men have always been the ones to go hunt/farm for long hours and provide for the family, leaving the children home under the care of the mother/village for days or weeks at a time. I would go so far as to say
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by twodave 1y ago
If you can’t recognize a little tongue-in-cheek humor then maybe you’re the stupid one ;)
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by twodave 1y ago
I don’t personally see how one person’s experience with children other than my own has any connection to my own children. That was the point I was attempting to make, though. Just because you have anecdotes to share doesn’t mean you’ve stum
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by twodave 1y ago
I haven’t read the book, but we have 100% had the “you don’t have to graduate if you don’t want to” talk with this one haha. She doesn’t want to drop out, but definitely isn’t interested in college. We want to keep that door open for her if
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by twodave 1y ago
Another article where someone thinks being a parent means they understand all children. I have 4 kids, and 2 of them definitely would never do math, even basic math, for fun, ever. Their brains lack whatever pathways most people utilize to
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by twodave 2y ago
I could see a "Devil's Plan" style game show where, for one of the challenges the contestants have to come up with AI prompts that produce results, that then get fed into another AI prompt to determine whether they satisfy th
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by twodave 2y ago
There's a draft spec out there for discrete unions in C# fwiw. I wouldn't be surprised to see it in another version or two. And while I agree that I don't love some of the object initialization patterns C# allows--I respect t
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by twodave 2y ago
Yeah, overall I agree. And I honestly can't imagine anyone who works with any popular javascript framework would flinch at the addition of a .sln file or /Properties folder lol...
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by twodave 2y ago
I suspect they were either referring to pre-.NET Core days before the new project formats came out or they're creating projects in Visual Studio and checking all the optional boxes. There indeed did used to be a lot more required boile

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