StrangeWill

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by StrangeWill 12d ago
Also: let's be honest. "I wrote a little app in a few weekends" -- "I built this in a few weeks", "this took me a month instead of a year" These are productivity increases, sure, but still are $2000, $800
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by StrangeWill 1mo ago
That and talking to a lot of users, Duolingo reduced the quality of their service moving to LLM generated content -- a lot of people moved to other apps.
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by StrangeWill 2mo ago
The only hangup with the myth "debunking" is that the point is that the corruption doesn't happen to a per-disk buffer, but to the in-flight data before it's persisted to your stripe. Which means all copies of the data
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by StrangeWill 6mo ago
Apple makes this a huge PITA, along with having to do a significant amount of it from another apple device. I'm glad we ditched iPads, it sucked.
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by StrangeWill 11mo ago
> The input latency might not be as good as you'd like. Yeah input latency is annoyingly rough, not super bad but _just_ laggy enough to make it annoying to use. Debating how much I want to change things, I can directly punch into m
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by StrangeWill 11mo ago
I've literally programmed with VSCode for basically a decade this way without issues. Zed lags, it's disappointing and if I really like Zed I'll have to sort out another setup. MSTSC is one of the rock-solid tools from Micros
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by StrangeWill 1y ago
We build a Shopify-leading platform on C# at a startup -- they got so much flak from colleagues about it being built on C# instead of Node or Python. Absolutely no reason other than "C# icky" -- they ended up with a platform tha
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by StrangeWill 1y ago
Long-time C# Dev here -- yeah I'm still jealous of being able to find more esoteric libraries in Node, Python or PHP -- or just having more options then someone's back-yard half-baked implementation sometimes. On the other hand, I
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by StrangeWill 5y ago
We've been using SSH keys by default for all of our new users for years, removes a ton of confusion and starts them with one of the better authentication methods out of the gate. (We also set most up with code signing because why not?
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by StrangeWill 6y ago
Yeah, but that would honestly be an argument for any large company with leverage getting too much leverage, and this would apply to things like Google, Amazon, Apple, etc. and them using their leverage to control markets in similarly unethi
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by StrangeWill 7y ago
Two different perspectives: on the search engine end being a consumer... that's a pretty easy-going experience, Google filters out the large amount of noise because it's a good search engine, you get your answer, you're on yo
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by StrangeWill 10y ago
It's trying to protect people that want to hire bottom-dollar work, but not get bottom-dollar quality. If you're not happy with the rate at which I'm getting things done, you don't need screenshots of my desktop, feel fr
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by StrangeWill 10y ago
You're selling the wrong product if you're just looking to sell on the bottom dollar. I meet clients in-person and focus on quality and consistency. Yeah sure you can save a few thousand by having someone do it on a site like this