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by ratww 4y ago
A few years ago I start a dashboard project that was mostly raw SQL. I then saw the team wanting to convert it to ActiveRecord, which they started. But lots of queries had to use AREL (Rails' "low level SQL AST abstraction"),
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by ratww 4y ago
You either start with or without an ORM, depending on your assessment of whether the project is gonna need one. If you start without one, you still have to partition your code well enough so that retrofitting one doesn't cause a huge m
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by ratww 4y ago
And I answered to that already on my second paragraph. Taking the nuclear option after merely "seeing [something] as" risky without exhausting the much-cheaper remaining options is not "somewhat understandable, if not plai
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by ratww 4y ago
> Your good developers are often the ones who like to tinker with frameworks, patterns and complexity. Note: good developers don't force this down people's throats, but they're always thinking about what they can apply in
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by ratww 4y ago
Nowhere in the grandparent's post says that it was a "walled garden", or even that it was closed source. The fact that only one person was needed doesn't mean there's only one person available. OP even said he worke
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by ratww 4y ago
> Apple disagrees. They don't run promotions of that sort, or promotions, in fact. The price is the price, it's core to the brand. That's not entirely true. I got my M1 in a promotion, with a discount. I also got my Watc
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by ratww 4y ago
> Wow, really? That is an interesting choice. It is interesting but very pragmatic for this situation: until somewhat recently most computers and chargers only had USB-A ports.
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by ratww 4y ago
Funnyly enough Apple's Brazilian PR team completely fumbled their response to the Ministry of Justice: > Existem bilhões de adaptadores de energia USB-A já em uso em todo o mundo que nossos clientes podem usar para carregar e conec
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by ratww 4y ago
Firefox mostly, but that also happens with Safari in my other PC.
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by ratww 4y ago
Businesses want to make money, and dating apps can make heaps of money by retaining users and making it pricier for them to find a relationships. Users that want relationships want to find someone ASAP and delete the app. Those two goals ar
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by ratww 4y ago
One of the main criticisms I see is that low-Elo people also get show mainly high-Elo people. So there's much less chance for two low-Elo people matching with each other, the algorithm works against it. Since you have a limited numbe
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by ratww 4y ago
Well, if the government wants to help people meeting offline, it's gonna cost a helluva lot more than a website... to the point it doesn't sound like a waste anymore. I don't see society going back to offline dating by itself
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by ratww 4y ago
Isn't that exactly how Tinder also works, or at least used to work? I remember Tinder being heavily criticised for using Elo ranking.
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by ratww 4y ago
Is it? To a complete outsider it feels as if Hinge is just becoming the new Tinder. Anecdotal of course (mostly from women friends), but partly supported by the growth of Hinge lately. People looking for relationships don't want to be
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by ratww 4y ago
> it supports css based thread collapsing I didn't knew but I love it... I wish more developers took interest in such things.
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by ratww 4y ago
> Old Reddit Important distinction. New Reddit also fell prey to bad development practices and is without exaggeration unusable for me. It often "crashes" and the whole page goes dark-grey on my browser, and this has been happe
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by ratww 4y ago
Well, first, it's not reliable. If the network goes down and it doesn't have some form of recovery, you gotta start from scratch. Second, it's not bookmarkable (except for the odd case), so you can't send specific pages
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by ratww 4y ago
And you're absolutely right, despite the downvotes, but here's the coldest of all hot takes: it doesn't matter if it's shit. It just has to be there. Doomscrolling and modern web products were never about quality, but ra
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by ratww 4y ago
I find it personally hard to date stuff that came out or that I watched during the pandemic. To me it felt like I consumed 4 or 5 years of content in the span of each year. My sense of time is completely twisted.
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by ratww 4y ago
That would be very interesting to know! Especially considering the two studios he mentioned aren't exactly close to each other: https://goo.gl/maps/MLw3twvRi9GumYeX8
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by ratww 4y ago
True! And that applies for every case. Even if you have 100% isolated mains with solar or battery, you'll get 50hz from neighbours (especially apartments) and power lines close by. I remember having this issue when working in a recordi
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by ratww 4y ago
I remember consumer devices from the 80s that allowed transmitting audio using mains. They were already outdated by the time I saw them in the 2000s. Me and some friends tested them and tried transmitting to a neighbours house (connected to
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by ratww 4y ago
An on-line UPS like those used in datacenters or music studios is probably enough. They basically have rectifiers and inverters in them. Some of them have phase-locked loops to sync the output frequency with the mains, but probably won&#x27
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by ratww 4y ago
A lot of software has moved from using dmgs to mpkgs, and apart from some terribly written apps that need some hackery in PostInstall scripts, most of them don’t really care about it. The UX for packages also sucks. With DMGs you just mount
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by ratww 4y ago
Maybe they fixed it and I gotta upgrade, but for me animated gifs have been broken for a couple weeks.
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by ratww 4y ago
Exactly, the modern practice is condescending. The prevalent thinking is that "users don't really know what they want", so there is zero research, zero iteration, zero respect and a lot of corralling in the application to for
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by ratww 4y ago
Sorry, let me rephrase: I don't think Steve Jobs was like that at all. But the copycats that don't believe in iterative development or in user research love to pretend they got all figured out before it's out for development.
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by ratww 4y ago
+1000. But in my experience the trend started not with developers, but with the other people around them: Product Managers, Designers, Engineering Managers, Steve Jobs wannabes. There was an obvious disdain for users, and they were seen as
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by ratww 4y ago
That's a good point. Quotes are definitely better for some cases.
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by ratww 4y ago
I love mine. Doesn't really get stuck (only time was when it "found" a fallen t-shirt behind a cabinet). They do clean well for me, as long as I do it regularly. If I don't do it for a week it needs a second pass. But ho

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