thrashh

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by thrashh 1y ago
A lot of people like Apple because it was built on Jobs’ taste and they liked Jobs’ taste. With Jobs gone, it still has a taste but it someone else’s taste. That said, I think some people have developed their own original taste but some peo
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by thrashh 1y ago
I don’t have ADHD but I did the test. My answers would vary with amount of sleep: 4 hours/night - Poor executive function, can’t figure out what order to do things in, lose keys and random things, forget to lock doors and not even real
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by thrashh 3y ago
I agree. It doesn’t matter if you give an inexperienced person a hammer or a saw — they’ll still screw it up. My biggest pet peeve is they NO ONE ever does failure modeling. I swear everyone builds things assuming it will work perfectly. Th
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by thrashh 3y ago
You know, planning isn't something that is necessarily required or necessarily not required. You plan as much as a situation demands. Presumably in a smaller society with abundant water, you can wing your pipes because it doesn't
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by thrashh 3y ago
There’s very few candidates in that region for good allies so Israel has a stronghold in US politics. If we had made Iraq a powerful ally, it would have weakened support for Israel but that whole area of the world is too embroiled in confl
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by thrashh 3y ago
The problems with DSLs is usually poor ass documentation. Throwing a full programming language in place of a DSL means now you deal with everyone and their mom inventing their own way of doing things.
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by thrashh 3y ago
I grew up in the early 2000s and us and other kids in middle school were watching beheading videos and/or porn. Shit, I talk to other functioning adults in their 20s and 30s and they tell me they too watched the same garbage. I think y
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by thrashh 3y ago
Afaik a ton of companies use Watson. IBM doesn’t market services… they market solutions. You contract with them and they figure out how they build something for you. And it may include Watson.
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by thrashh 3y ago
It seems a lot of people make a product but don’t use it themselves enough to tell how to make it better so it always feels like v1. Or they do but they’re not very observant idk?
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by thrashh 3y ago
This is where experience comes in. Someone experienced will know how much work a certain approach will take and its capacity. Sometimes there are quick wins to give like 100x capacity to a system just by doing things slightly differently, b
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by thrashh 3y ago
I mean you can design a filesystem to handle a million files extremely quickly... it just has to be in the requirements up front. But there will be some trade-off. And I don't think people generally put "a million files" in t
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by thrashh 3y ago
In this case, the limitation is more on developers of iPad apps than users. It’s making developers more creative but I don’t think it’s making users more creative.
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by thrashh 3y ago
Don't know about New York but California has lost plenty of firms over decades. Aerospace used to be all in California, for example. But California's GDP rises faster than most states and countries in the world so it's probab
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by thrashh 3y ago
Even every significant website built 15 years ago not in JavaScript involved a framework. In Java, you got Spring. In Python, you got Django. In Ruby, you got RoR. In PHP, you got Symfony. etc. Blaming frameworks seems misguided.
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by thrashh 3y ago
I mean everything has a cost but quadrupling the number of users is the benefit. There’s no reason why an app can’t work as well either via command line or via GUI. The whole point of architecturing your software is so you don’t write somet
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by thrashh 3y ago
I mean iPhones do it purposely to make people buy iPhones. And it works. Apple is full of marketing geniuses. They’re maybe using a lot of dark patterns but they’re raking in profit.
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by thrashh 3y ago
Tools and ecosystem really make a product. Microsoft knew this when they invested so much in tooling. Java has some of the best tool chains of any language. Macromedia and to some extent Adobe invested a lot with tooling for Flash. Shit I e
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by thrashh 3y ago
Not from my experience. I’ve used Wirecutter top picks. They suck and actually do break
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by thrashh 3y ago
There’s also the Power Query add-in for Excel that’s super steezy. It’s like a light Power BI. Honestly even thought I can make interactive report webapps, that stuff needs to be built and maintained so I rather have people use Excel or a B
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by thrashh 3y ago
That’s true but for a lot of these products, they were negative ones like “broke after a few uses.” Super sus when Wirecutter is promoting something as a top pick. But it also makes sense. A review site like Wirecutter is using the product
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by thrashh 3y ago
I used to think they were good but I think they were only good on paper, even before they were bought by NYT. I checked out a lot of their top picks and a lot of them had like 2/5 ratings after a few years and it turns out a lot of the
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by thrashh 3y ago
Being truthful doesn’t mean much. Actions are worth much more than words. What trust is seeing how a product has evolved over 5-10 years. I think you’re missing my point. My point is focusing on whether a project is open source is relativel
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by thrashh 3y ago
This is going to sound maybe insensitive but I've noticed driving drunk is a cultural thing. I've been with certain groups of people and pretty much it seems everyone and their cousin has a DUI and no one regarded it as a major cr
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by thrashh 3y ago
With all due respect, a project being open source means nothing for trust. There's a litany of open source projects that I have used that have been completely abandoned. Trust comes from building a healthy ecosystem of users, which ult
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by thrashh 3y ago
Web dev frontend has a thousand quirks but has a billion more hours of human hours development time spent on it. CSS is annoying but way better than trying to jiggle random attributes and subclassing stock components to do something basic l
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by thrashh 3y ago
It’s because if you want to continue getting a job, you want to use what other people are using. Using most static page frameworks is like using ColdFusion for your career advancement.
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by thrashh 3y ago
Well when you value low effort content and high effort content equally, you discourage people from making high effort content when they can make money by just recording their roof.
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by thrashh 3y ago
Not at all. You don't have to describe anything when throwing an error because that's the point of exception inheritance. Second, the whole point of exceptions is to bubble them out of the handler(!) because otherwise you would
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by thrashh 3y ago
What language would that be? I've programmed in Java, Python, C, C#, TypeScript, VHDL, and some other languages and they all fucking suck in some way. If it was up to me, I would pick the best parts of the languages/ecosystems and
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by thrashh 3y ago
Disagree. Usually you don't need to just know if there is an error or not -- sometimes you need to know what that error is. For example, an I/O error versus your image-is-too-small error -- you need to respond to the user differen

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