dansiemens

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by dansiemens 1y ago
MCP is currently too difficult to setup and too complicated for consumers to understand. Once somebody big enough figures out distribution and integration a la the App Store, and the market starts to understand MCP integrations as extension
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by dansiemens 1y ago
Precisely, such a change represents substantial risk in an incredibly risk-averse industry. People at orgs in such industries are in constant CYA mode, looking to point responsibility (and therefore blame) to anyone else. The time to go and
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by dansiemens 2y ago
> This is how things like SAFe are born, that try to make "agile safe for the corporation" and of course they're nothing more than corporate BS under an agile name SAFe was truly one of the worst things I encountered with
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by dansiemens 2y ago
> I also really don't get the apparent hate for react, usually from people who haven't used it all that much In defence of the haters, I think we’ve all seen our share of horrendously organized React SPAs. Dependency hell, (see
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by dansiemens 2y ago
Which abstractions are leaky? State is complex. There’s not really a way to get around that.
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by dansiemens 2y ago
I personally would rather create a .drawio file visually and keep that under version control. Sure, the diffs aren’t that meaningful, but that’s what commit messages are for.
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by dansiemens 2y ago
Are you suggesting that individuals should carry that liability?
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by dansiemens 2y ago
What you’re describing is early Facebook. Your feed was only from your 1st degree connections. Content mattered because it was from people you cared about (and inherently knew, because users wouldn’t accept friend requests from people they
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by dansiemens 2y ago
“You don’t need a formal conspiracy when interests converge” - George Carlin
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by dansiemens 2y ago
> why don't I have a device that I can basically run MacOS on and have a detachable keyboard I think the answer is market cannibalization. Apple would much rather sell you both an iPad and a MacBook Pro rather than just an iPad.
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by dansiemens 2y ago
> I put the blame squarely on these institutions and our government for this situation Maybe we should advocate for some personal responsibility as well. Institutions may have offered dead end programs, banks may have financed it, but ma
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by dansiemens 3y ago
My 20 year old HP laser jet costs me a minimum of $0 to run per month. And if I go 6 months without printing, it still costs me $0 a month. The math doesn’t line up, it’s a cash grab plain and simple.
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by dansiemens 3y ago
> Looking at their cheapest plan which is $7 a month for 20 pages Clarification, $7 a month for 0-20 pages. That is crazy.
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by dansiemens 3y ago
> In place of the old pleasures demanding intelligence and personal initiative, we have vast organizations that provide us with ready-made distractions - distractions which demand from pleasure-seekers no personal participation and no in
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by dansiemens 3y ago
What a read! This guy was really in it for the lulz. > Cole “once took every seat in the stalls at a pretentious and terrible play and gave tickets to many acquaintances. The performance was wrecked, because as soon as the lights went up
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by dansiemens 3y ago
Yep: “Most of the revenue of Mozilla Corporation comes from Google (81% in 2022)” [0] [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation
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by dansiemens 3y ago
I know parent said “see it”, but a more accurate phrase would be “experience it”. What’s going wrong can be very nuanced, and it’s a bit naive to think you could diagnose complex industrial machinery by watching a few cameras.
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by dansiemens 3y ago
> We should expect them to provide a basic option (which they do) and for sophisticated consumers to pay more for a much better option GitHub is fairly feature rich imo, _especially_ when compared to something like CodeCommit on AWS. I’v
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by dansiemens 3y ago
Microsoft is using React Native for Windows [0] for their Office applications [1]. As a fan of RN this would be the first avenue I’d explore if I had to develop something for Windows. [0] https://microsoft.github.io/react
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Small Ottawa firm subcontracted ArriveCan app to multinationals(theglobeandmail.com)
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by dansiemens 4y ago
It fell out of favour for one of the same reasons the author cites - that third party dependencies were a dumpster fire. I would say that as frustrating as this can be with React Native, Cordova was substantially worse.
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by dansiemens 4y ago
Vendr seems to be on the right track. https://www.vendr.com/
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by dansiemens 4y ago
> In my direct team of 10 people, myself included, I have completed 71% of all story points in 2022, the other 9 are responsible for the other 29% This just sounds like another example of Price’s Law. Seems like you’ve climbed the ladder
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by dansiemens 4y ago
“No Dad stop counting!” is how my toddler retorts. Works wonders though!
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by dansiemens 4y ago
I start by making the decision. Wait a day, then see how I feel about it. If I’m reasonably confident, I go to a few people that I trust and tell them about the decision I made. I get feedback, and take some time to process it. Adjust my de
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by dansiemens 4y ago
I agree to some extent. The “medium is the message”; let the outcomes of post frequency be determined by the structure of the platform. Whether that structure should be more prescriptive than descriptive though is certainly up for debate.
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by dansiemens 5y ago
> I did try to improve the office productivity as a whole a few times by patching up the wonky database they used for accounting, but got shut down each time because of fear of change I too have found that accounting is where new ideas g
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by dansiemens 5y ago
> EDIT: find some common ground with your fellow man and strengthen those bonds Agreed. Never underestimate what you can learn from others.
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by dansiemens 5y ago
Child care generally comes with a lot of regulation in developed countries. One such regulation being “one caregiver per n children”. If n is too large, the quality of care is poor, and if n is too small, the cost of care per child is too h