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TheRealWatson

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TheRealWatson··on Niki Lauda has died
Not only the comeback right after the crash. A few years later he retired from F1, then came back and won a title. He's still the only one to win a championship after a hiatus.
TheRealWatson··on How the vegan food trend made a star of the stinking jackfruit
I'm the opposite of a vegetarian and I love jackfruit. I'll admit it's something of an acquired taste and lots of people hate its smell. I love it. Grew up eating it and I'm very happy to see it more easily in my local grocery stores.
TheRealWatson··on Google cans the Chromecast Audio
The only Chromecast Audio I've owned was a mistake. I thought I was buying a real Chromecast at a very good price. I was so disappointed that I just dropped it in the trash immediately.
TheRealWatson··on Roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2019
Hello fellow class of 97 mate. I agree with you completely. It's a common trait of new professionals, especially in programming, and even more in web development, to pursue encyclopedic knowledge of all the buzzwords and brand new frameworks or tools.

It's useful to learn about these things but never lose sight of the big picture. Frameworks, tools, languages, trends, all go in and out of fashion very quickly, for various reasons. On the other hand, practices, patterns, soft skills and a good understanding of how things really work will be valuable for an entire career.

Put your energy into understanding which problems are being solved by the above things, not into becoming masters of any particular set of tools. You'll still be very good at those tools because you'll know the role they play and what to expect from them.

TheRealWatson··on Announcing unlimited free private repos
I have zero insight on this but I also don't know anyone in my circle who pays individually for Github... When they need that, they use Bitbucket.

I know several people I worked for or did business with that paid for Organization accounts, from Team to Enterprise.

TheRealWatson··on Ask HN: What should I do when I'm bored with my career?
This is just my experience and of some I observe around me. I see a lot of very talented and passionate developers wanting to come up with personal projects that can make them money but, because they're so deeply interested in software engineering, the only ideas they have are related to (surprise!) software engineering problems.

Yes, you can make money selling products or services for software development but to really come up with something that reaches more people or businesses you need to invest in other interests, you need to be around more non-techies, you need to try more concrete world things.

Use your acute problem analysis and solving skills to identify and model problems in the world "out there." Model and remodel the problem to exhaustion, fall in love with it; think, design, experiment solutions and a why people would pay for it.

It's possible there's a lot of stuff to learn in this whole process. And you can do this over and over, with different problem spaces, if you become good at it.

TheRealWatson··on Feds: Chinese spies orchestrated hack that stole aviation secrets
I thought the topic was world trade.
TheRealWatson··on Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post Tweets to profiles or pages
I may be swimming in the opposite direction, but I like to see that go. I left Twitter (well, abandoned my account) years ago, tired of the excessive noise and progressive loss of relevance to me. Seeing tweets on the FB feed always makes the author seem lazy and desperate to have a presence in every social media site, just because. I know that the change won't stop all of that but will certainly reduce it. FB isn't exactly a noiseless feed but I sort of have to put up with it given family and friends.
TheRealWatson··on MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros
Right. But it doesn't say developers are the majority of MBP users.
TheRealWatson··on Microsoft announces Surface Go
Why would they primarily target upgrades? Assuming the upgrade was possible (it may not be,) they should still be mainly after new customers. Make the keyboard an opt-out instead.
TheRealWatson··on Why Do Americans Stay When Their Town Has No Future?
Why is it unfair. Americans are highly motivated too. Or at least they should be. It's much less risky to have to get on the Greyhound back to your parent's house than back to the other side of the world. This is a great country and we are in the perfect industry to take risks.
TheRealWatson··on GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU
> you can make your case

What if you don't want to deal with any of that. You can no longer just create some useful, free service and make it public.Heck, I don't even like having to be familiar with software licensing just to add something in Github.

TheRealWatson··on Our Approach to Employee Security Training
Not everyone thinks like an engineer. I thought the approach was very appropriate.
TheRealWatson··on Ford to Stop Selling Every Car in North America but the Mustang and Focus Active
Speaking for myself, besides the price, some driving patterns and destination may not favor electric cars today.

If you travel frequently by car or can't always count on a charging station being available, then a hybrid could be a better alternative.

The gap is closing, though.

TheRealWatson··on Shaper Origin: Hand-Held CNC Machine
Depends on the parent.
TheRealWatson··on Boycotting Amazon
It took decades for technology mature enough to make it truly easy for even a mom & pop shop, an individual creator, or a service provider to set up shop, accept payments, fulfill and deliver orders on the web.

A lot of the new technology that could potentially become the backbone of the proverbial New Internet is still in its infancy. I will be probably evolve quicker than the first few waves but at the moment it still feels like nerdy tools built by nerds for other nerds.

TheRealWatson··on Little Caesars Has a Patent for a Pizza-Making Machine
Little Ceasars has started replacing humans with robots at least 5 years ago :)

https://youtu.be/c0BzHdQhG9U

TheRealWatson··on Redesigning the smartphone dial pad
I'd take it one step further and just say to hell with phone numbers. It's about time we can just "resolve" names into devices. With URIs or something prettier.

I know I'm overlooking existing infrastructure and countries with fewer smartphones but we need to leave this behind at some point.

TheRealWatson··on Disqus Security Alert: User Info Breach
What if you need to update the password of one of the sites (e. g. this disqus breach) ? What if the domain name changes?
TheRealWatson··on Disqus Security Alert: User Info Breach
Sorry. Replied to the wrong comment.
TheRealWatson··on Disqus Security Alert: User Info Breach
What if you need to update the password of one of the sites (e. g. this disqus breach) ? What if the domain name changes?
TheRealWatson··on A successful Git branching model (2010)
Fair enough but at that point you're creating a branching model, which is what the original comment advocated against.
TheRealWatson··on LocalStack – A fully functional local AWS cloud stack
This is only for automated testing. They're real services.
TheRealWatson··on Why I’m throwing out React and going back to Angular 1.x
I thought he gave his reasons for leaving React behind pretty clearly, no? Mostly around tools and work flow.

These matter to him so I wouldn't just dismiss the article.

TheRealWatson··on Major Service Outage at GitHub
Rumors are that they edited some JSON files. Not a good day to touch JSON.
TheRealWatson··on Ask HN: Why does 'View Source' issue a new HTTP request?
Interesting. I had no idea they had a beta version for macOS. I've gotta try it.
TheRealWatson··on Ask HN: Why does 'View Source' issue a new HTTP request?
Is there anything comparable to Fiddler for macOS? I heard you can run it in VM but that's just too much brute force for me.
TheRealWatson··on AWS CodeBuild – Build and test code with continuous scaling
I feel like none of the AWS developer offerings (the Code* services) are compelling enough.

Kind of like a lot of Microsoft tools, they are all lacking but, hey, the have deep integration with each other, so easier gluing.

TheRealWatson··on Microsoft Acquires Xamarin
Not sure you know who we're talking about... Seriously, look him up.
TheRealWatson··on Ask HN: What's going on at IBM?
Yes, of course. If you are a company, you know your rep.
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