heather45879

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by heather45879 4y ago
I agree and not trying to typecast—but maybe their personality + Asperger’s = dubious people-oriented decisions? I’m not a doctor nor do I know anyone with Asperger’s but it is a variable at play. But quickly looking it up it’s a social-ori
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by heather45879 4y ago
So he’s just like Bill Gates in the 90’s. A little douche with an ego and deceptive business practices. Not sure why no one mentions his asperger's syndrome because that’s an obvious mastodon in the room.
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by heather45879 4y ago
Another thing to note is that in modern computing environments there’s infinite distractions. We’re always one click away from YouTube. Back then, the screen was a playground one could poke and prod—without distraction, with a singular focu
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by heather45879 4y ago
Opiate crisis has less to do with people’s deaths and more about their addiction. The lengths they go to score another fix—stabbing people, robbing family members, selling themselves, etc. It’s one thing to die from doing something stupid—i
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by heather45879 4y ago
Absolutely—it’s also imagineering! Disney has done that for almost a century. But they make money because that’s their bread-and-butter. You’re buying an amazing experience at Disney, VR or otherwise. Meta’s bread-and-butter is selling peop
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by heather45879 4y ago
Something that popped into my mind is the role of Linus in the Linux Kernel development. Imagine how things would be without him? Or if a bunch of business exec ran things? A lot of millennials value freedom of choice and open collaboration
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by heather45879 4y ago
You’re definitely right the technology has tons of potential. Lots of applications in, for instance, content-creation space as well. The problem Meta ran into is that it’s difficult/impossible to make money on it. It’s a niche market a
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by heather45879 4y ago
Honestly no one really cares about VR that’s the problem. It’s cool in concept but whose going to shell out cash to be tethered to a machine wearing goggles sitting in a chair? AR has potential but even that is marginally better than altern
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by heather45879 4y ago
VS Code has the power of emacs and an autogenerating UI which maps to the configuration files. To me, that’s the easy way out—make the UI map one-to-one with the data underneath, obviating the burden of considering the UX of each configurat
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by heather45879 4y ago
Well unfortunately that’s a typical assumption developers make. “It’s an editor, Bob! The users ought to know how to read JSON!” Well thought-out UIs actually help the user find things and they don’t need to change all the time. Unfortunate
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by heather45879 4y ago
Honestly I’m not a fan of VSCode as a user. It’s too generic and lacks identity (too powerful to edit simple configs); it auto-updates every time I start it; it’s too complicated to configure; JSON is ugly and it’s 2022, why not favor GUI c
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by heather45879 4y ago
The answer is obviously—no it’s not! Neither is light mode. Screens are bad for the eyes.
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by heather45879 4y ago
It does make a difference but doesn’t change the effect of Microsoft’s bad business decisions. There are no doubt many amazing individuals at the company, but the whole Windows ecosystem is polluted. It has lacked identity for the past deca
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by heather45879 4y ago
Yeah the frameworks do force a disciplined approach. It still boils down to separation of concerns like presentation from business logic etc. Historically the front-end computation existed on the backend but with NodeJS everything sort of m
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by heather45879 4y ago
I don’t think ORM is the same since it’s more of an API than a framework (in my mind). ORM also falls into the platform-abstraction arena because it typically has multiple backends which provides other benefits. It also is served as a wrapp
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by heather45879 4y ago
The underlying issue with web applications is that it’s like a square peg going in a round hole. Remember, HTTP is designed traditionally as a stateless protocol delivering static web pages, more or less. But here we are, with stacks-on-sta
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by heather45879 4y ago
I like to go back to the basics. It irks me that folks don’t think HTML/CSS/JavaScript are good enough as-is—but nowadays the default browser capabilities are incredible compared to a decade ago. We basically have a full programmi
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by heather45879 4y ago
And just think when you got the tech logo clothing you become a walking billboard. Are you getting paid to wear it? But yeah most grandchildren auction off their parents belongings anyway. That’s why birds make nests and then they go somewh
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by heather45879 4y ago
Sure some things are better—but you won’t find half-decent workmanship in the majority of products—just walk through Home Depot and take a look at anything “Husky”. And regardless, modern features are pretty much frivolous crap anyway. I me
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by heather45879 4y ago
I think it’s the compounding effect of digital clutter over time. It’s easy to create digital things and the tendency to keep adding features never stops. Minimalism is a good thing for an OS as it really makes it easier to use. Another thi
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by heather45879 4y ago
I think it’s more like a tool that needs to be fine-tuned. Sure it’s somewhat limited but keep in mind this is the beginning of the technology…
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by heather45879 4y ago
You’re definitely right about having a wealth of accessible information! The Internet was of course the next innovation since the Gutenberg press paved the way for knowledge transfer. But The Internet is plagued with the disease of infinite
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by heather45879 4y ago
I think many of the HN responses have proven the articles point having read it digitally. In a digital world people are consuming so much information they don’t have the time to properly think about the meaning behind an article—and they ge
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by heather45879 4y ago
I’d like to point out this extends to the actual Windows 11 OS because they relentlessly push National-Enquirer calibre news to users. Want to get something done? Hit Windows key and start searching for that app you want to use—only to be f
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by heather45879 4y ago
I’m not dyslexic actually. Just thinking in terms of good user experience. A lot of the issues with C syntax is that it’s largely designed to make it easier for compiler writers. I feel like Rust has similar pitfalls in that vein—instead of
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by heather45879 4y ago
I prefer manual buttons when taking photos the traditional way. Too many digital screens these days deviate from a good solid device that does a few things really well.
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by heather45879 4y ago
True, but why bother with the symbols in the first place? User experience is just as important for developers reading/writing text and languages are typically created behind closed doors with a small engineering team only. Guido got a
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by heather45879 4y ago
Composting could help too if there was a way to separate food waste from other garbage. If there’s less food there’s less rats. But it’s probably too crowded I dunno. Maybe people should start eating the rats… lol
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by heather45879 4y ago
Syntax coloring would make it worse because coloring the :: independently of the surrounding tokens will make them stand out even more as a group. Rust is safe but it’s at least as ugly as C++.
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by heather45879 4y ago
Good design theory. https://www.doverbooks.co.uk/point-and-line-to-plane Consider h::i::j::k versus h.i.j.k Two :’s is an extremely loud combination of visual elements compared to the subtle point. :: drags the eye away fro

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