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by whstl 1y ago
LLMs are amazing at producing boilerplate, which removes the incentive to get rid of it. Boilerplate sucks to review. You just see a big mass of code and can't fully make sense of it when reviewing. Also, Github sucks for reviewing PRs
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by whstl 1y ago
I added Pedantism to my spell checker, so now it's not red anymore. Checkmate.
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by whstl 1y ago
I worked with a few of those where it was horrible, because they were incompetent and unwilling to work to improve across all disciplines. But that says more about the individuals. IMO "Knowing enough to do damage" is the worst po
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by whstl 1y ago
I love the explanation in the linked site: > Writing on the internet can be a two-way thing, a learning experience guided by iteration and feedback. I’ve learned some bad habits from Hacker News. I added Caveats sections to articles to
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by whstl 1y ago
React also has a class of problems that doesn't really happen in other types of apps: re-renders. Even other frameworks like Vue.js, Solid or Svelte don't really suffer from it as much. It simply happens a couple order of magnitud
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by whstl 1y ago
Yep, that works 100%. I'm still a big believer in "separation of powers" a la Scrum. There should be a "Product Owner" that can be anyone really, and in the other side there is a self-managed development team that d
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by whstl 1y ago
> Sofortüberweisung A reminder that Sofort is made by Klarna, the company that mandated usage of AI and fired 700 employees because of AI.
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by whstl 1y ago
What's that, a Github employee? Not really, I'm in an YC startup. But I guess the problem is that every single development position has been converging into this. The only times in my career as a developer where I was 100% happy w
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by whstl 1y ago
At this point "ownership" is just a buzzword thrown around by management types that has no meaning. If a developer has to put up a fight in order to push back against the irresponsibility of a non-technical person, they by definit
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by whstl 1y ago
The way it works in tech today is that there are three groups: - Project managers putting constant pressure on developers to deliver as fast as possible. It doesn't even matter if velocity will be lost in the future, or if the company
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by whstl 1y ago
Forced deportation of Ukrainian children, the rhetoric denying Ukrainian nationhood and massacres in places like Bucha definitely put the Ukrainian war into genocide territory. But if you want to talk about "real" genocides, China
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by whstl 1y ago
I must have interviewed for at least 4 or 5 of those companies the last couple times I changed jobs. A few of them were YC. I can't find their online presence anymore, or they have pivoted to something else.
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by whstl 1y ago
There is a community action for doing so in Github too, but god knows if it's secure or works as well as Sourcehut. https://github.com/marketplace/actions/debugging-with-ssh
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by whstl 1y ago
You're right. With the caveat that it's the moving in and out of the kernel that's the expensive part, so putting things inside it also helps with performance... at the expense of security and reliability, of course, so users
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by whstl 1y ago
Agreed. Another point IME is that the problematic requirements are also often non-essential, such as using a certain in-house framework made by some director, or building the whole project inside some abomination, like the workflow system o
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by whstl 1y ago
I can attest to that. I used to freelance doing porting about 10 years ago, and the main way of having a stable event loop for a game on macOS is not really anywhere clear in the documentation, at least not anywhere I could find. Libraries
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by whstl 1y ago
Is this a simple hosted analytics service, where outputs are only accessible by Flo, or does Facebook uses this data in any other meaningful way? If this is used by targeting, I’m afraid we can’t call this just an “analytics service”.
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by whstl 1y ago
I don't see why it would be.
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by whstl 1y ago
I would argue that it's the opposite. It's "more complicated cases" that are designed to fit modern dependency management.
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by whstl 1y ago
I actually find them to be extremely popular in C and C++, and also in some Lua communities. They just have an extremely vocal opposition. This is not too dissimilar to static builds and unity builds, which also "make your life easier&
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by whstl 1y ago
I think this comment shows the difference between web development and other industries. This problem is not existent in languages that traditionally use single-file libraries because projects rarely get to the point where they use 63 librar
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by whstl 1y ago
It's even worse, I don't think you can bring your own printer to a Kinko's.
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by whstl 1y ago
Adding Auth0/Okta to the list. Funny enough I had buying power and budget for it, and was gonna ask a Senior engineer to look into it, but the calls got so crazy that I just soured on it.
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by whstl 1y ago
Even my grandfather once told me stories of this happening in the 70s when the company he worked for was sold and the new management brought new software, or my parents telling similar stuff from the early 90s.
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by whstl 1y ago
In my experience companies end up paying as much money as they can. The companies themselves are to blame, too: they absolutely refuse to change their processes, so the software must adapt to them, no matter what the cost.
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by whstl 1y ago
Here's a thesis: Maybe LLMs make you 10x faster at using boilerplate-heavy things like Shadcn/ui or Tanstack. ...which is still only about half as fast as using a sane ecosystem. IMO this is why there's so many diverging opin
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by whstl 1y ago
Apple is really bad at search, and on purpose. Welp, money before quality!
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by whstl 1y ago
Germany/Europe, not available for me.
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by whstl 1y ago
Oh that brings memories! Been in quite a few of those. Basically the ERP vendor sells you the software and estimates that you need a couple months and a couple consultants for the migration and integration, plus a few users of your product
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by whstl 1y ago
> That is, do people feel like they’re getting better, more reviewable PRs? No, like you I’m getting more PRs that are less reviewable. It multiplies what you’re capable of. So you’ll get a LOT of low quality code from devs who aren’t mu

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