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by jongjong 6d ago
The most unethical aspect IMO isn't what they're building but the taxpayer money which those big companies are getting. These are essentially handouts. Taxes are not paid voluntarily but coerced out of citizens under the threat of
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by jongjong 7d ago
I'm surprised that founders still care about all that stuff. They already made tons of money, who cares. None of it means anything. Nothing is fair in this society. They don't mind the system working unfairly in their favor; they
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by jongjong 7d ago
In Australia, house would be at least 50% more, apartment would be maybe 70% more. Beef is cheaper (about half price) and tastier (from my experience). Bread is probably half price and way tastier in France though. Actually, after living in
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by jongjong 7d ago
I appreciate the question. It kept getting slightly worse every year since I joined the workforce. My salary is 2x when I started 14 years ago but it buys less than half what it could back then. Most of it goes into rent. It's almost i
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by jongjong 7d ago
Currently, my experience is that spam filters often block non-spam messages and allow many spam messages through. Platform notifications are spam! Yes, even if I signed up for it, I agreed to be contacted by the company, I never agreed to b
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by jongjong 7d ago
As someone who coded professionally in Python, C, C++, C# and Typescript, I disagree. JavaScript is my favourite language. I just avoid the bad parts. Just like everyone else avoids the bad parts of their favorite programming languages. I c
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by jongjong 7d ago
Before AI, my worldview was that our monetary system was concentrating wealth in a negative-sum game; essentially; every so often, taking wealth from 100 people, destroying half the underlying value and giving the remaining value with a 2x
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by jongjong 7d ago
I'm not worried about AI safety. People greatly overestimate the utility and capabilities of intelligence. I'm not afraid of intelligence, I'm afraid of idiocy.
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by jongjong 7d ago
I'm still waiting to get my first revenue from copyright content I created 10 years ago. Not everyone gets instant recognition.
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by jongjong 7d ago
We can't abolish it. That would be theft. A lot of people worked very hard based on the assumption that their work would be theirs and that they could monetize it. It would be the greatest theft of human labor since slavery. If we swit
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by jongjong 8d ago
>> JS... Because our strawman is a modern (shitty) language This is an attitude I dislike from all these niche language communities. They give each other pats on the back for shitting on the most popular, versatile, compatible and ada
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by jongjong 8d ago
Survival is not the problem if the land provides abundant resources. The limiting factor is procreation. Hermits don't tend to have children so they 'die out' as a species but they're fine as individuals. In reality ther
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by jongjong 8d ago
My wife and I love British culture, architecture, parks, etc... But compared to Australia, I felt like it was still feudalism over there. It's like everyone knew their place. I could feel the class system; the software contracting 2-ti
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by jongjong 8d ago
Part of my motivation for moving back to Australia was because the low population density means I could potentially survive on a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. In the event of an apocalypse, I would probably move back with my parents as they li
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by jongjong 8d ago
When I was in Germany a few years ago, I was browsing jobs available in France and most software development jobs were under $55K USD. I don't know how you're supposed to survive on that. You can probably make more money as a wait
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by jongjong 11d ago
It's not spam if it's the first time I heard of it and it's useful. It shows they care about their project. This makes me want to try it out even more. Meta and Google can spam their unsolicited ads to a billion users but reg
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by jongjong 13d ago
I've been feeling this for years. From my perspective, the purpose of VCs was to: - Waste my time filling out forms to participate in incubators they would always reject me for. - Fund my competitors so much as to drive up CPC for any
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by jongjong 14d ago
Voting doesn't work in a low-trust society. You can't trust the custodian of the digital system who tallies the votes. The problem is intractable. The president, who is ultimately decided by the custodians of the voting system, is
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by jongjong 14d ago
All well and good if your lifestyle stays the same... But what if it keeps getting worse? Some people want the whole pie, some people want a certain sized slice and some people want nothing. Some will fight to the death trying to get the wh
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by jongjong 14d ago
My main concern is that as people lose their jobs and can't find new ones, an increasing number of people may be forced into a life of crime. We need UBI ASAP.
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by jongjong 15d ago
I feel like I've been in a recession economy since the day I entered the workforce 14 years ago. The movement of the stock market has had no effect on my reality. It's like two different universes inhabited by two different sets o
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by jongjong 15d ago
I recall a time when Google was struggling to monetize ads and then something changed and they started becoming profitable. The narrative was about improved targeting. I think it might have helped a little but I never fully bought this argu
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by jongjong 16d ago
I've seen some ugly OOP codebases, but I've seen some very nice ones too. I haven't seen any nice FP codebase yet besides basic APIs. There's a reason why 99% of video games are OOP. That level of complexity is just too
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by jongjong 17d ago
Correct, technically they pass copies of the state; which gets cloned at every component/module/function boundary. This protects you from 'spooky action at a distance' which is a real problem which can happen when mutabl
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by jongjong 17d ago
In the newer versions of React with Redux, the components are all pure functions and state is centralized and passed down into the components. IMO it's as close as a codebase can be to pure functional programming whilst still functioni
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by jongjong 17d ago
Some problems don't require OOP, but most large complex problems do, IMO. Most complex codebases I've seen which were pure Functional Programming were spaghetti code; unmaintainable. What I saw every single time was that the proje
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by jongjong 20d ago
But that's the thing; vibe coders are not developers now. I don't see why the marketing equation suddenly changes whenever a human being is confronted with software tooling. My platform is targeted at non-technical builders. For y
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by jongjong 20d ago
Something I've come to realize, as a software engineer, is that the work I do now is much more nuanced and complex than before. I used to call myself a 'software developer' but now I call myself a software engineer. If I had
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by jongjong 21d ago
A lot of people would be willing to take a significant pay cuts if only they could run their own businesses. But that's not an option for them. This gap isn't accounted for in calculations about economic efficiency. The system rem
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by jongjong 21d ago
I tried to do this with my vibe coding platform "Reduce your token costs by x%" and "Lets you easily control exactly who can access what data", "Full detailed usage analytics so you can see how users are accessing d

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