leptons

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by leptons 4d ago
Guess what... another trump will run for president after donald is gone, and they will also be just as greedy, but not "a boomer" or anywhere near that age. It has nothing to do with age , so the sooner you get that out of your h
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by leptons 5d ago
Take "boomer" out of it and I would agree with you. Greed and power are not and never have been an age-related thing past early childhood. It's the human condition, not strictly a "boomer" thing.
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by leptons 5d ago
Winner take all is a farce. It didn't work for Uber when they tried to out-spend the competition, Lyft is still very much a thing, and so are taxis (the non-robo kind). There will always be many, many AI companies and trying to execute
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by leptons 5d ago
Everything this administration does only makes sense if you live in bizzaro-world and want this world to burn.
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by leptons 6d ago
>So suffice to say, I'm familiar with the code. You are familiar with the React Native code, you are not familiar with the Swift or Kotlin code, and likely nobody on your team is, since the AI wrote all of it for you.
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by leptons 6d ago
Your comment isn't as beautiful as you thought it was.
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by leptons 7d ago
Yeah, the ones that know obvious slop and won't ship it are the ones who will win. Unfortunately it seems like I'm stuck with the other half at my current job.
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by leptons 7d ago
Do you think this is the first folding phone that ever existed? There are plenty of cases for folding phones, they've been around for many years already. Cases for this phone will likely work exactly the same.
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by leptons 7d ago
Beauty is subjective. That's not snark, that's reality. Nothing is "genuinely beautiful". You can't just call something beautiful and have everyone agree that it is in fact "beautiful". It's the most
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by leptons 8d ago
You underestimate the public's hatred of AI-in-everything. HN is a bubble of AI.
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by leptons 9d ago
It's also a foolish thing to do. Any time anyone types anything into anywhere on any webpage, that data is as good as gone, it's out there. Back in the 90's I experimented with per-character logging on all form input boxes, j
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by leptons 9d ago
>C is going the way of classic WoW What does this mean?
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by leptons 9d ago
If "competitive capitalism" is how you want to frame it, then Zuckerberg should have been thrown out for essentially burning $83 billion dollars on a VR world that is never, ever going to pan out. That's going into a hole at
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by leptons 11d ago
>But now that LLMs are writing the code, there's really no argument for developer ergonomics, and suddenly, things like "rewriting URL handling in JS" are pure liabilities. The popular coding AIs go down all the time. Last
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by leptons 11d ago
The DOM is the slowest part of the browser. It's not Javascript, it's the DOM. React is an attempt to manage the slowness of the DOM. One seemingly small change to a page (like setting innerText) can have many ripple effects with
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by leptons 12d ago
Just because someone can code front-end doesn't mean they can design good UX. One of the "full-stack" devs I work with who started as a back-end dev thinks rewriting a full WYSIWYG front-end system is fine to replace with a s
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by leptons 12d ago
>Also telling people to "calm down" over text when they are not even talking to you is very passive aggresive for no reason. Your "This" quote was the least genuine comment I've seen on HN in a very long time. Yo
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by leptons 12d ago
I honestly think specializing in front or back end is a good thing. Sure, it does help to know both, but there's too much ground to cover for any one person to do well at all of it. I'm full-stack leaning towards front-end, and wo
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by leptons 13d ago
>This You're cherry-picking a single word to start a pointless internet argument? Calm down. Nobody claimed this exact event lead to problems for anyone. This is what OP actually said: >>This is exactly the sort of thing Yes,
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by leptons 13d ago
I spent 2 years developing and polishing a front end web application, and then some other engineers at my company pointed Claude at it to try to reproduce it. The slop it crapped out would make most if not all our users leave for the compet
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by leptons 13d ago
>But in general, frontend code is a lot more ephemeral and replaceable than other types of code. Tell that to Digg. If you slop oit a front-end, your users will leave. It's that simple. The front-end is the part the users use the
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by leptons 13d ago
>Everything else is manufacturing a problem where there was none. That's this administrations exact intended purpose for forcing this.
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by leptons 14d ago
Kid Rock is probably next, or worse.
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by leptons 14d ago
That's a pretty hilarious story of war dialing. I used to wardial every night too. I had the FBI show up my house this one time... one of my warez/phreak acquaintances had started a world-wide conference call of phreaks originatin
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by leptons 14d ago
My grandfather worked for Sperry and we had circuit boards from Univacs in our basement when I was young. Then I bought an Atari 400 and B&W TV for the display when I was 11. Looking back it was pretty neat getting to see what came befo
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by leptons 14d ago
That's amazing. I often thought that if I had kids, this is how I'd introduce computers to them. Give them a great C64 setup, the whole manual and when they can do something impressive, then they get a more powerful computer - an
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by leptons 14d ago
ouch
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by leptons 14d ago
I have a similar story. Single mom, early/mid 1980s C64. I recently found the framed receipt for this purchase. My mom still had it and framed it when she found it years ago, as it became clear that purchase led to my prosperity (unt
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by leptons 16d ago
In my experience, Burning Man is all 3 types of fun at the same time.
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by leptons 16d ago
It's participants that make it what it is, and not everyone participates. Quite a lot that come are purely spectators.

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