friedman23

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by friedman23 4y ago
The alternative is a custom DSL for templating which I find much worse. Even CSS has a DSL for conditional and programmatic logic which I only use because of the immense performance benefits it brings.
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by friedman23 4y ago
There is no purely fun way to build a production app. If there were everyone would do it. The hard part of building an app is the slog through the tedious parts. If you just want to build a toy app for fun, I recommend you just mess around
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by friedman23 4y ago
> The vast majority of the managers I've worked with wouldn't be particularly good ICs, not so sure of the wisdom of this move. The point is that the company doesn't need the managers.
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by friedman23 4y ago
Fair point! I've tried to learn and failed c++ 4 times (I knew C, python, typescript, java), I learned rust in a month after reading a 700 page book.
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by friedman23 4y ago
> Right and wrong isn’t defined by how copyright law is written right now It's a good thing I never mentioned right or wrong.
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by friedman23 4y ago
It's their engineering blog... This is what engineering blogs talk about and you are on hacker news where things like this are of interest.
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by friedman23 4y ago
It's completely different. The customizable fonts did not violate copyright.
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by friedman23 4y ago
What do Solid, Svelte and Vue bring to the table exactly? None of those frameworks solve the dataflow problem and the performance benefits they bring do not make a dent. Also why would I want to use some DSL for html templating when I could
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by friedman23 4y ago
> but I don't think it's about Javascript I get that and that's part of the point of my comment. That these screeds always make sure to mention javascript because by bundling javascript in the screed you get default accept
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by friedman23 4y ago
People that complain about SPAs are the modern knights tilting at windmills. What are the primary ways people today consume content? Youtube, tiktok, whatsapp, facebook messenger, instagram, discord, etc, etc. Before someone qualifies my po
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by friedman23 4y ago
My parents came with literally nothing because the government they escaped took everything from them. Both of my grandfathers had their education but they could not practice their craft because their accreditation did not matter in the US,
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by friedman23 4y ago
> We literally have bots now that can play poker better than any human. This is not true but will be at some point. > And unlike life, in poker there's no risk in making bad decisions during the game while you're still learn
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by friedman23 4y ago
> Not accounting for luck as a factor of success is one of my pet peeves. Why do you model life as a single bet where you have a 1 or 2% chance of winning? In reality you are making bets every day, each with a range of odds of succeeding
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by friedman23 4y ago
No, if it was actually like monopoly there is 0 chance of succeeding once people have established themselves. You have a finite number of bets you can make in your life, if you waste them by partying, gambling and being high on drugs then y
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by friedman23 4y ago
Ah yeah, you should have told that to my immigrant parents who came here with nothing.
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by friedman23 4y ago
> It also disregards the type of lottery game that is a part of wealth accumulation. It's not a lottery game, it's a poker game (and in reality, it's much easier than poker because the economy is positive sum and poker is
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by friedman23 4y ago
> I can see some apps needing to be native (ex: using AR/ML libraries where you need to squeeze everything out of the phone) I agree but all that's needed there is an escape hatch with some way for the non-native interface to i
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by friedman23 4y ago
One single platform for cross platform development is enough motivation and react native has improved a lot in the past year. The entire concept of developing the same app multiple times for different platforms is just so mind numbingly dum
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by friedman23 4y ago
It's going to take white collar jobs. The cost of batteries, motors, and steel makes replacing humans with robots not cost effective.
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by friedman23 4y ago
Can you prove the results are cherry picked? Android app quality being worse than iOS is my personal experience as well. There are many reasons for this too. Show us well known consumer Android apps where the iOS and Android app experiences
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by friedman23 4y ago
People don't invest a lot in android apps because android users don't pay money for things at the same rate that iOS users do.
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by friedman23 4y ago
Your statement is a non-sequitur.
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by friedman23 4y ago
It's their project so why not...
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by friedman23 4y ago
I donate my time to help the homeless. I know what people that don't use soap smell like.
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by friedman23 4y ago
Wow, you managed to convince yourself that something you were doing right was wrong
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Ask HN: Why is Roblox allowed on the iOS app store?
11 points by friedman23 4y ago|3 comments
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by friedman23 4y ago
> making a dent in the profitability of a multi-bn $ org should enable a very comfortable life Life does not work like this, the world isn't about "should" it's about "is" and "can". So if you crea
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by friedman23 4y ago
If you build something great in your free time and decide to give it to the company you work for you are a fool...
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by friedman23 4y ago
I've been a software engineer at a few highly regarded companies for a decade now, at none of them did I have the ability to make large product or design decisions as a software engineer. I was able to suggest things, I was able to cal
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by friedman23 4y ago
Most developers don't have agency to choose what they work on within a company. Expecting the developer to have any influence on the outcome of what they produce other than the implementation quality shows a lack of understanding in ho

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