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Havelock··on The Hacker News Top books of 2023
Nice affiliate list.
Havelock··on Norway Joins Denmark in Swedish Tesla Strike/Blockade
Unfortunately either side can't blink. IF Metall can't back down because then other companies could get ideas to leave. And Elmu doesn't want to back down because then other countries could get ideas about unionising which would affect their bottom line.
Havelock··on The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsustainable
Linus Torvalds $50M net worth says otherwise. There are however very few "winners" and a lot of losers.
Havelock··on The U.S. housing market vs. the Canadian housing market
I believe that the current housing bubble began to really go off the rails during the 2008 financial crisis due to decisions made by the Conservative Party of Canada at that time. Instead of addressing the issue directly, the government chose to stimulate the housing market through incentives and policies, effectively artificially inflating it. Subsequent governments have followed a similar path.

As we've seen, the accumulated potential energy in the housing market has now grown to such an extent that we don't know what to do with it. Eventually, the "sandpile effect" is likely to come into play, since the laws of nature always wins.

Havelock··on GCP CloudSQL Vulnerability Leads to Internal Container Access and Data Exposure
It reads like paint two circles... then the rest of the owl.
Havelock··on Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online?
Same. Wrote scripts to level up skills, set up runes to different stores to perform automated shopping rounds. Had one script for sparring that would recall to a bank or an Inn and log out if a staff appeared in the journal; since it was illegal to macro offline on some servers. It was all good fun and I always enjoyed having it running on my PC as some sort of Tamagotchi.

Me and my brother also ran our own servers for a while. Believe the last server I played on was one of the Zuluhotel ones.

Havelock··on My bad habit of hoarding information
I do the same, but right now I just keep tabmanager.io on my right screen to show a grid of all my windows. Some which I save for later, e.g. switching between projects.
Havelock··on Show HN: I built my own PM tool after trying Trello, Asana, ClickUp, etc.
Looks good. What would be the difference from e.g. Basecamp?
Havelock··on Show HN: High performance custom element virtual scroller
In terms of performance and size it's much better. Though it's more of a base component and you can virtualize any sort of scrollable element that you can render, vertical or horizontal.
Havelock··on Hexagonal Architecture and Domain Driven Design
DDD is about building maintainable software by trying to separate the business domain from the application technology. If there is no separation and/or the software is not easy to maintain(more than just being tired of looking at it year after year), then try something else.
Havelock··on Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4
In my experience productivity is up and people get their work done. What I do see is a lot of extrovert getting depressed because they no longer have access to the smorgasbord of interactions at the office. Certain managers also seem worried by this move to remote, since it has become harder for them to "play the game" of office politics.

My own opinion is let the people decide what to do. Once a week, everyday, once a month, only when needed... Let people and teams decide.

Havelock··on Gitlab Handbook's HN Page
Plot twist. Posted by a Gitlab employee
Havelock··on Who wrote this shit?
Negative bonding can be a fast way to feelings of camaraderie, but it can also cause resentment to fester.
Havelock··on MacBook Air M1: the best laptop?
Lots of issues running docker and other strange segfaults in VM.
Havelock··on Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
- uBlock Origin - tabmanager.io - React Developer Tools
Havelock··on Show HN: Open-Source Chrome Extension for auto-grouping tabs by URL patterns
I'm using tabmanager.io for this purpose, i.e. syncing windows as group of tabs. But I know similar features to this extension for tab-groups are currently being added.
Havelock··on jQuery 3.6.0
Browser compatibility issues can be resolved with Babel and as such fulfills the need of jQuery and allows me to just write javascript.
Havelock··on WebAssembly
be careful of cycle-collection problems.
Havelock··on I tried creating a web browser and Google blocked me (2019)
Regardless of the discussion, Electron browsers are very insecure and is not a stable foundation to build a browser on. Electron even recommend that you do not try and build a browser using it.
Havelock··on 20 months, 2K hours, 200K € lost. A story about resilience and sunk cost fallacy
Sounds like a Big ball of Mud. If it solves a real problem then it can be re-invented; by the same people or by someone else. Otherwise it will slowly come to a crawl and eventually be forgotten.
Havelock··on TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem
I have the same problem. I'm currently testing out the new tabmanager.io extension that seems to have a lot of potential.
Havelock··on Qt for WebAssembly Technology Preview
Agreed Qt is a great framework and I'm excited to see this development.
Havelock··on Deep-copying in JavaScript
I suspect it is because JSON.parse and JSON.stringify are more commonly used methods and therefore see more optimization than methods use less.
Havelock··on Show HN: Tax plan impact calculator
It is nice, could do with some better support for smaller screens. I enjoyed that the authors names shifted position when updating the page. Nice touch.