danabrams

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by danabrams 5d ago
I don't know, I've had some years where without "off" would also make sense.
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by danabrams 2mo ago
It also struggles with my NYC-area accent, which is only medium thick.
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by danabrams 2mo ago
There are four stages to any successful companies lifecycle and Bending Spoons's model is to maximize what they can get in the final stage of decline. There's nothing wrong with that, but if you're a user of one of these serv
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by danabrams 3mo ago
This is not sustainable forever unless their hypothetical usage is realized, and eventually the bill will come due. Meanwhile, component makers will surely be spinning up more capacity, some of them in a foolhardy manner, and if the bubble
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by danabrams 4mo ago
I have one. I got it so I could have something small to slip in a small bag for when my toddler went to a playground. The thing that makes it's unusable is the trackpad. A better trackpad and I would think this was fine and great for t
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by danabrams 5mo ago
ios Native App > web app > android app > anything made with a cross platform toolkit like react native or flutter. I would much prefer a really well-crafted ios Native App with extensive attention to detail than anything, even a w
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by danabrams 8mo ago
I read what the author is saying as “time is fixed, so I adjust the scope.” The problem is when product or management is demanding both fixed time and fixed scope. “Here’s a list of requirements (which are under defined and we will change w
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by danabrams 8mo ago
Oftentimes, broadly accessible services are lower quality than more personalized ones, to the consumer. As an example in US government bureaucracy, government software teams digitizing forms at one point weren’t allowed to utilize features
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by danabrams 8mo ago
The author talks about how software creation processes at large organizations are an artifact of how large organizations operate, but in all 3 of the 3 cases, I would ask “why does the large organization need to be that way?” Most obviously
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by danabrams 11mo ago
For enterprise mobility venues like a commercial aircraft or a cruise ship it costs far more.
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by danabrams 11mo ago
Maduro, Castro, and Saddam Hussein are/were bad. Castro and Hussein, at least, committed murders to maintain power and Maduro pulled a coup after he lost an election. Whether they were worth removing is another question, but if you cou
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by danabrams 2y ago
I’m old enough to remember not having an iPhone and not feeling sexy.
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by danabrams 2y ago
Two types of sales philosophies: 1. It doesn't matter what you're selling, it's about the sales technique. 2. Develop deep domain and customer expertise. The former is the scammy type, the latter is the type we love to work w
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by danabrams 3y ago
Here's a theory... Although illegal now, San Francisco used to have a widespread practice of "key money"--a bribe you paid the landlord to choose you to rent the apartment that due to rent control or other factor was priced b
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by danabrams 3y ago
The author leaves out what to me is the most compelling argument against static types: it is somewhat at odds with interactive development with a running system, as seen in smalltalk and lisp. Now, not a lot of developers are really doing t
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by danabrams 3y ago
I’m reminded of Alan Kay’s observation that software is a pop-culture. Simplicity is great, how can we combine it with the 17 other frameworks we saw on HN this week and have to use?
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by danabrams 3y ago
Sorry, there was a typo. Astro is more focused on SSG than SSR. This is what happens when trying to comment on a phone keyboard first thing in the morning.
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by danabrams 3y ago
You wouldn’t use Astro with NextJS, but you absolutely would with react. Astro is an SSR more tuned to generate static sites than SSR with hydration. It uses the islands architecture instead of full page re-hydration. So if you’re generatin
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by danabrams 3y ago
From context they are almost certainly referring to the city of Washington (DC), which is part of the northeast corridor described, and not the state of Washington, which is on the west coast.
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by danabrams 3y ago
Do I have any sources that systemic racism is real? I mean, there's a large body of evidence (I personally like the economics methodology of this study, which has been repeated many times: https://www.shrm.org/hr-today&
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by danabrams 3y ago
For 350 years of US history africans and their descendants were enslaved. Native Americans were ripped from their land and relocated, often with genocidal levels of casualties. After that, these two groups were substantially discriminated a
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by danabrams 3y ago
The complaint that at ideal viewing angles, the resolution will only be 720p is silly. 720p is fine for watching movies, even if it's not home theater perfect. But it's absolutely fine and way better than the alternative of watchi
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by danabrams 3y ago
Since the link won't open for some, here's the relevant bit (the first two lines of the abstract of the paper linked to): "MVC was conceived in 1978 as the design solution to a particular problem. The top level goal was to su
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by danabrams 3y ago
It's a pdf. It opens for me when clicking. Are you on a browser that can't easily open PDF?
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by danabrams 3y ago
> One of my ideas is that if you were to log the behaviour of a program with timestamps and implement a program that implements the same log, then its behaviours are identical. This sounds a lot like event sourcing.
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by danabrams 3y ago
There’s no reason your model can’t have an abstraction layer that contains the business logic and a concrete layer that has the persistence (indeed, if it’s complex at all it should).
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by danabrams 3y ago
Yes absolutely. Reenskaug has stated that MVC was designed for simple operations (and co-designed DCI as an architecture for more complicated ones). And a number of the early OOP people including Alan Kay, have said something to the effect
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by danabrams 3y ago
Source: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&d... The source is Trygve Reenskaug, the originator of the idea.
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by danabrams 3y ago
I agree, and I wonder if this is just what happened as an accident of history or so much a tendency of human nature that we couldn’t have done it any other way. Maybe simple data models is the mental model of computing that couldn’t be easi
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by danabrams 3y ago
The M in MVC has come to mean “data model,” but it originally referred to the “mental model” of the user. What kind of thing are we trying to manipulate and what is the user’s mental model of such a thing? How about a bank account? A mental

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