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by whstl 8mo ago
It's not luck. Customers want to save money and see projects finished. That anyone can reason with. Someone inside the company trying to climb the corporate ladder? Different story.
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by whstl 8mo ago
I feel like there's two kinds of developers. The ones who shit all over other people's preferences and turn everything into an almost religious discussion, and the ones who prefer to just build stuff. Get over it. Some people like
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by whstl 8mo ago
Dealing with the occasional pushy customers is way easier than dealing with pushy PMs or designers. Which happen to be the majority. Customers bikeshed WAY less than those two categories.
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by whstl 9mo ago
You're obviously being sarcastic, but for the longest time the dominant position of a huge chunk of HN (and the tech world in general) has been that the cloud is the answer to any problem, and that anything deviating from it is either
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by whstl 9mo ago
It's insulting to see the word "progress" being used when the PR experience is orders of magnitude slower than it was years ago, when everyone had way worse computers. I have a maxed M5 MacBook and sometimes I can barely revi
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by whstl 9mo ago
Good point, but gotta remember that people don't buy chips, they buy products. There's plenty of stuff to be produced. From components to PCBs to casing to packaging. China didn't become the manufacturing giant it is because
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by whstl 9mo ago
So what? If that's the case, they clearly mean the 0.0001% or whatever number, which is way worse.
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by whstl 9mo ago
Not only that, but that person was relying on a totally incorrect metric in the first place. Tale as old as time.
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by whstl 9mo ago
That's because the US was not part of the Berne Convention until 1989, so before that U.S. works often had protection only if certain formalities were met (like registration or notice).
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by whstl 9mo ago
I wish I could disagree with you, but what I'm seeing on average (especially at work) is exactly that: people asking stuff to ChatGPT and accepting hallucinations as fact, and then fighting me when I say it's not true.
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by whstl 9mo ago
I'd say it's relatively easy to make one that “does the right while also also the wrong things”. By wrong things I mean things that make it complicated enough to turn it insecure. The advantage of third-party tools is that it&#x27
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by whstl 9mo ago
I agree. If the company culture is not even helping or encouraging people to give pragmatic feedback, the war is already lost. Even the CEO and the board are in for a few years of stress.
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by whstl 9mo ago
I completely disagree. Managers who don't have knowledge can do way too much damage.
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by whstl 9mo ago
Wrapping it in a label is the idiomatic and correct way, and should be done even when not styling. Perhaps especially when not styling. Putting an adjacent label is also possible, but scales poorly due to needing unique ids.
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by whstl 9mo ago
I don’t think people invested in Scrum believe it’s “temporary” or ever marketed it as such. And agile teams are supposed to be self-managed but there’s nothing saying there should be no engineering managers. It sounds counter intuitive, bu
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by whstl 9mo ago
I was answering to a specific post that doesn’t mention or imply it, plus I mention exactly what you say in my second paragraph which you most certainly missed.
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by whstl 9mo ago
Yep. It has been the case forever. The reason we keep/kept getting new tools is because laymen would exhaust their capabilities in the old tools and started requiring a developer once they need THAT ONE feature.
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by whstl 9mo ago
I find that the current way we do Scrum is way more waterfall-ish than what we had before. Managers just walked around and talked, and knew what each person was doing. We traded properly working on problems for the Kafkaesque nightmare of m
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by whstl 9mo ago
Or for the product manager too lazy to check Jira.
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by whstl 9mo ago
Very often in my experience, people with too many soft skills and too little hard skills are at best dead weights, at worst con men, which are a special kind of asshole you REALLY don't want to deal with. Of course the best is to have
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by whstl 9mo ago
I know an example. A tech lead who would demand every single task to be done in certain ways and go through a certain processes. Invading other team's PRs and slack channels in order to pick fights because they weren't using his m
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by whstl 9mo ago
A few writer friends even had a coffee mug with the alt+number combination for em-dash in Windows, given by a content marketing company. It was already very widespread in writing circles years ago. Developers keep forgetting they're in
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by whstl 9mo ago
Even before AI, there was tremendous pressure on developers for NOT going above and beyond. I have been in far too many situations where a developer had an idea or a prototype it was blocked by a product manager on the grounds of it not bei
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by whstl 10mo ago
You were linking to their React-only offering above, but the actual Tailwind Plus website is this one: https://tailwindcss.com/plus The Tailwind UI blocks are a similar offering to Basecoat, and are available in non-React f
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by whstl 10mo ago
Agree. The optimization caveat also applies to OOP, another example someone threw in above. Sure you can implement OOP as a library in pretty much any language, but you’ll probably sacrifice ergonomics, performance and/or safety I gues
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by whstl 10mo ago
HN itself is way better than people give credit to. The toxicity tends to be very isolated, and divisive topics disappear quickly from the front page. I find that there's still a subset of users that make it worse than it should be, by
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by whstl 10mo ago
I agree. I'd argue that if you can't start a conversation with your superior about future promotions and job goals, you're probably not gonna get that promotion anyway. Your manager is gonna be the one asking their own manage
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by whstl 10mo ago
Making HN readers angry is its own reward. I wonder if JWZ still has the red carpet for HN users. Let’s test: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/01/dali-clock-in-the-wild/ EDIT: Yep, still works!
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by whstl 10mo ago
It comes from the same place as "passwords expire every 30 days". People don't understand something and just apply the most annoying rule possible. The craziest one I saw in Germany was "cookies are allowed, localStorage
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by whstl 10mo ago
I once had to print a form and fax to a company with a signature and the instructions said specifically that "signing with a computer and sending digitally is not allowed". I just signed with macOS Preview, applied some random noi

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