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by blowski 2y ago
Gerald Weinberg was a prolific author in the tech consultancy space, and most of his writing consists of anecdotes like this. He explains his theories by telling stories, the veracity of which isn’t the point. On the specific note, I freque
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by blowski 2y ago
The winner in the “software with passionate users” has to be emacs.
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by blowski 2y ago
I find this a vague, reductionist view. When I have dinner with my family today, there’s more than one nature, while my own nature has changed in the last 10 years. To say most people have had the same nature at least for the last 300 years
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by blowski 2y ago
> we just have phones now That’s a huge understatement. We have electricity, refrigeration, medicine, mass transit (including international), human rights, enormous increases in population, fast media, internet, nuclear weapons, universa
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Clickbait Capitalism – Or, the Return to Libidinal Political Economy(ppesydney.net)
2 points by blowski 2y ago|0 comments
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by blowski 2y ago
Do you have any specifics on examples of the design being inferior?
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by blowski 2y ago
Fixed
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by blowski 2y ago
If you want ChatGPT to say nice things about you (or bad things about your competitors), then you'll need to give it your version of information - at least that will be the line peddled to us. I've already received emails from SEO
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by blowski 2y ago
I'd say this is exactly what the interviewers wanted. They're interested in how you break down the problem, the types of solutions you consider, your understanding of the trade-offs involved. For example, I interviewed somebody wh
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The "Correlation" Between Statistics and Eugenics(lareviewofbooks.org)
3 points by blowski 2y ago|0 comments
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The Uneven Distribution of AI's Environmental Impacts(hbr.org)
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by blowski 2y ago
Good question. I suppose an existing plugin that meets the requirements, or the skills to build one myself.
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by blowski 2y ago
Doesn't that seem a bit passive aggressive? See what I did there?
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by blowski 2y ago
Also, there are many UI challenges solved easily by React plugins - e.g. multi-select boxes, datepickers, colour pickers, file uploads, etc. Yes, this is using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. But I don't have a nutcracker, and I do alre
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by blowski 2y ago
Don't we have that with Patreon, GitHub Sponsors?
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by blowski 2y ago
I agree, it would be nice to make it easy to donate, and then the donations are spread to others within the ecosystem. But perhaps they're worried about a ruckus when they choose to make a donation someone doesn't agree with, so t
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by blowski 2y ago
This is true of all famous essays. People remove the nuance included in the body and over-apply the title without really understanding it. For example "Goto considered harmful". I remember working with a very good programmer who&#
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by blowski 2y ago
Some good previous discussions on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35053118 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21476261
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by blowski 2y ago
> outside EU Way to kick a Brit when they're down! Fortunately, we implemented the EU regulations back in 2013, and haven't yet repealed them so I can chargeback on a normal credit card.
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by blowski 2y ago
I actually do have a right, very specifically my statutory right under the UK's "Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation, and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013" which requires that vendors provide clear and timely in
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by blowski 2y ago
One reason I didn't go back and check was that I always turn this off. Of course, I'm fallible and may have made a mistake here, and so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt on that one. Either way, I encourage people to ch
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by blowski 2y ago
In the UK at least, the vendor needs to show that their process was transparent and fair in order to fulfill their side of the contract. One of the examples specifically called out as unfair is "renewing without sufficient notice&quot
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by blowski 2y ago
Absolutely, I'm going through that process at the moment. I posted this in case it helps somebody who doesn't have that protection or has cashflow issues.
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Tell HN: Educative.io auto-renews without warning, refuses to provide refunds
92 points by blowski 2y ago|31 comments
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by blowski 2y ago
The closest I've come to being "blown away" by it was a project where I needed to clone the results of an Excel workbook onto the server, without installing Excel. I started with PHP as my normal language, but it ran into the
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by blowski 2y ago
So they benefit from the extra “regimentation”, although whether they like it or not is another matter.
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by blowski 2y ago
> Youth are happier with more regimentation Are you saying young people like being given rules?
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by blowski 2y ago
Yes, I'd be interested to hear that. From initial reports, it sounds like under-investment in QA because of over-confidence in automated QC. It's an example of a "black swan" or Bertrand Russell's chicken - the same
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by blowski 2y ago
From the guidelines: > Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. If you think people shouldn't do this, I'd be interested in hearing why not
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by blowski 2y ago
Yes, good point. Even within React, there's been a big change from class components to functional components and hooks. I imagine LLMs could help with some of that.

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