CognitiveLens

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by CognitiveLens 3mo ago
This is my thinking as well. Although the 'never do full rewrites' rule is canon for most of the software world, I have led rewrites of two large front-end applications to great success - replacing an app that 'worked' b
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by CognitiveLens 3mo ago
It sounds like two factors are at work - reducing personal time-tracking AND doing more AI-assisted work, both of which can reduce our ability to focus. In the case of AI, it also arguably reduces the need to focus for some kinds of product
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by CognitiveLens 4mo ago
The benchmark tables in the Google announcement include Opus 4.7, and the numbers are very impressive. Caveat emptor, but it's not unreasonable to compare a new Flash to a current-gen Opus, even if some of the results confirm expectati
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by CognitiveLens 7mo ago
As a project that started with a lot of idealism about how software _should_ be built, I would totally expect Bun to have an llms.txt file even if Claude wasn't using it. It's a project that is motivated in part by leading by exam
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by CognitiveLens 8mo ago
To be fair, history also demonstrates the deadly consequences of groups claiming moral absolutes that drive moral imperatives to destroy others. You can adopt moral absolutes, but they will likely conflict with someone else's.
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by CognitiveLens 9mo ago
but as mlinsey suggests, what if it's influenced in small, indirect ways by 1000 different people, kind of like the way every 'original' idea from trained professionals is? There's a spectrum, and it's inaccurate to
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by CognitiveLens 11mo ago
Actual Nielsen Norman Group article here https://www.nngroup.com/articles/liquid-glass/ Can mods change the linked article away from the thin blog post?
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by CognitiveLens 1y ago
Most browsers will engage the GPU for compositing layers if they think the layers can be separated - https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/12/gpu-animation-doing...
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by CognitiveLens 1y ago
I start all my UI projects with this principle, but it's extremely difficult to maintain as screens evolve. I want typography-driven interfaces with structure communicated through headings and spatial grouping, but I usually end up wit
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by CognitiveLens 1y ago
There are definitely projects designed with the specific intent of doing that, e.g. https://longnow.org/clock/ But there are other things, including awesome-and-dangerous nuclear waste sites, with warning messages&#x2F
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by CognitiveLens 1y ago
The automatic ci/cd suggestion sounds appealing, but at least in the NPM ecosystem, the depth of those dependencies would mean the top-level dependencies would constantly be incrementing. On the app developer side, it would take a lot
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by CognitiveLens 1y ago
I realize it's a nit-pick, but that is not at all the common definition of light pollution as it relates to night skies.
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by CognitiveLens 1y ago
I'm skeptical that we would need determinism in a supervisor in order for it to be useful. I realize it's not exactly analogous, but the current human parallel, with senior/principal/architect-level SWEs reviewing code f
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by CognitiveLens 1y ago
The linked article from Steve Yegge ( https://sourcegraph.com/blog/revenge-of-the-junior-developer ) provides a 'solution', which he thinks is also imminent - supervisor AI agents, where you might have 100+ cod
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by CognitiveLens 1y ago
You're kind of making his point - the second and third paragraphs are explicitly about the fact that he is not an Ivy League professor. Be the change you want to see in the world by doing the reading first.
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by CognitiveLens 1y ago
To be fair, "30 years of experience" likely opens more doors than any particular skill listed on your CV - that doesn't reflect the way that a majority of junior/mid-level devs need to present their abilities, where patt
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by CognitiveLens 2y ago
I'm sure I could dig into the details, but the Solid protocol seems to have similar high-level objects to AT Protocol, but a quick search doesn't reveal many sources that refer to both - are these communities ignoring each other,
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by CognitiveLens 2y ago
Was that kind of control well-received by your teams? Out of context, it sounds like it would be pretty rough to be an engineer on a team where your manager had sole control over what tools you could use - I suppose it might make sense for
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by CognitiveLens 2y ago
This not a criticism, but the comment you are replying to is a critique, not a criticism.
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by CognitiveLens 2y ago
But that take is too narrow - many of the 'great' painters had extensive training in the work of previous masters, frequently copying their works repeatedly in order to develop technique and more deeply engage with what came befor
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by CognitiveLens 2y ago
That is a good sign, for sure. Maybe revise to 'Facebook will eat 20% of your lunch - your business model will need to account for that'. Products like this don't have a big moat other than their network.
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by CognitiveLens 2y ago
I'm probably too cynical, but a strong "personality and fixed opinions" doesn't really give me a lot of confidence in a human being's competency (I also wouldn't use the word "competency" to describe
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by CognitiveLens 2y ago
Meeting up in real life is all about network effects - people make friends through networks, organize events through networks, and discover new opportunities through networks. If you're talking about small events that you found out abo
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by CognitiveLens 2y ago
I've worked in this product area before, and the big threats that we always had to watch out for were 1. Spam - once the app is large enough, you will be inundated with 'groups' that are just marketing pitches for companies a
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by CognitiveLens 2y ago
It would be interesting to know the average Roam user profile - I suspect that most don't need multiple simultaneous HD streams or the ability to transfer massive files quickly. I suspect many are RVers or people who just want to check
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by CognitiveLens 2y ago
I read the first part of your post assuming you were being sarcastic about people's expectations that every mention of AI must be about a revolutionary technical advance rather than novel applications of existing tech. But I think you&
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by CognitiveLens 2y ago
I might be reading a different version of the article than you did, but the article agrees with you - URIs are a superset of URNs and URLs. I didn't see where the author says there are no URIs which are URNs - the article specifically
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by CognitiveLens 2y ago
Roam is effectively the data plan, this is a new hardware dish, but I suspect it will be the preferred dish for most Roam plans.
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by CognitiveLens 2y ago
Earthquake risk is similar to California, with very low (but not zero) risk in many places, e.g. Auckland. The food is generally excellent in urban areas - cafe culture rules for those who can afford it. Main issue is cost of living - housi
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by CognitiveLens 3y ago
I think the parent is referring to how you write PHP templates, which are HTML at the top level, but escape to raw PHP code inside particular delimiters (<?php>), whereas for JSX you write JS at the top level and 'escape' (k

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