This just means that maybe the entire independent component concept is bad design. You tried to solve a problem by making it more complex so you could build apps like legos. What we had was a data layer or a parent component that handled this coordination. Apps were still built and still worked well. Browsers were not begging for forgiveness due to performance issues.
Also, before this, I've always been able to easily write the components you mention, easily I should say, without any of this N+1 madness. So why did components need to become their own apps inside a larger app?
Soon you're going to tell us that those components need their own infra, all pulled from different CDNs, all using separate auth and security contexts, and all will need to be sandboxed by the browser so they cannot access each others cookies. And that this is all needed and important and an improvement.
To me, what makes sense is that there is one reality (or I guess, our reality is unity), and everything in it, including “living” beings and “intelligence” is inseparable from the singleton. So trying to observe an object or an event, is the same as reality observing itself. It wouldn’t surprise me that the feedback loop of this is what we perceive as observer dependent attributes. Whether this reality is an objective physical reality or something else entirely is irrelevant and does us no harm.
Question: what does this mean for trust in any non profit structure if it’s this easy to convert? Why would investors put money in something they will get no returns on, but that the operators can at anytime turn into profits for themselves?
Around 8y ago, when Angular vs React was still a war worth reading, frameworks were I think in their final state. They gave you basic tools, and you could build applications with them. I felt like framework creators didn’t treat us like babies who needed handholding.
Idk if a new generation of younger developers took over, but things started becoming too shiny. Blog posts were no longer about performance, ease of use, same solutions. I couldn’t even understand some post titles. There is just no bandwidth to follow these things anymore. Why is a router a thing that needs to be continually rebuilt and tinkered with. Did we not learn ages ago how routers should work?
What innovation are we seeking? Is it just developers treating frameworks like their weekend experiments?
Thank you. I am always willing to pay a premium for kids apps that don't have any dark patterns, subscription crap or in app purchases. It's sad that the market has been so corrupted that now customers are asked to pay a premium to keep kids safe and sane.
The grid fails catastrophically. It happened this year in Portugal, spain and nearby countries? Still, think of the grid as more like DNS. It is immense, but the concept is simple and well understood. You can quickly identify where the fault is (even if not the actual root cause), and can also quickly address it (even if bringing it back up in sync takes time and is not trivial). Current cloud infra is different in that each implementation is unique, services are unique, knowledge is not universal. There are no books about AWS's infra fundamentals or how to manage AWS's cloud.
> I was always surprised someone didn't invent a tool for ftping to your container and updating the PHP
We thought of it, and were thankful that it was not obvious to our bosses, because lord forbid they would make it standard process and we would be right back where we started, with long lived images and filesystem changes, and hacks, and managing containers like pets.
If more of this happens, especially in email, maybe Google, Microsoft and friends will be forced to democratize their email blacklisting. When countries start suing because email from government agencies is not getting to their citizens, these lists will hopefully get more decentralized.
I bought a PS4 VR maybe 2-3 years ago, when it arrived I was excited to try it on, and realized I needed to also buy the camera. I did not think it was worth another 5 minutes on amazon to buy the camera, so the thing just sits there collecting dust. No interest at all. Then there is the price. I pass by a store, and Oculus and friends are $300+. I have bought other things that cost more, like iPhones. Still not willing to buy a VR headset for that, especially when I do not know what I will be getting. I am sure I will be disappointed by the limited ecosystem.
This is quite alarming and brings an entirely new threat threat factor to the DNS ecosystem. Outside of hacks/takeovers, the physical (and some digital) content you produce will outlive your domain ownership. How safe them is it to place links into your published work, even ones you control today?
Depending on how much penetration (no pun intended) your work has, it can be used as an amazing distribution channel.
I think it's not just about proving a claim. The same argument that in a democracy, you should build checks and balances to avoid sleepwalking into a dictatorship, is valid for companies, especially internet companies. Look at Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and friends. Cloudflare plays nice because it wants to frictionlessly slide into a position where it can extract rent. Today, they are powerful but are not there yet. They're easy to migrate out of because their offerings, amazing as they are, are not irreplaceable so people cannot yet be made hostages. Mostly what happens is your customers feel like CF is holding you for ransom without you knowing it.
When they start charging per packet and making you money, you will become as dependent on them as Apple developers are on Apple, and you'll find out how nice they are.
I have the same fear of tailscale. They are so amazing I just want to move every piece of my infra to them, business and personal, my family's devices, everything. But over time I've gained this instinctive distrust for low friction from startups, especially when the effect (intended or not) is you forgetting how to manage your own tech.
wrt App Store security, Apple could publish the minimum security and privacy guidelines that app stores needed to implement to participate.
This is how security works. This is how companies get to process credit cards, how businesses get certified for all sorts of things, and the process for approval is clear. I have never seen a security policy where it’s only secure if we do it. This is what autocratic presidents do to perpetuate their reign.
Almost every average to high performance employee captures less than the value they bring. Companies are not going to pay you 100% of your value as that is always seen as bad deal by the company. They want to feel like they're saving. Why else would you need to negotiate comp?
You’re probably worth a lot of money rn. I would start an entire business just selling people Google’s number. Heck, I would start an entire Google support company rn, publish a phone number and proxy calls to Google. I’d screen calls then also sell Google my services. You’re welcome. Build this in 2 months. I want 30% ownership.
Can we agree that in the age of LLMs, their client value content is a good indicator of under performance, at least from their content team? I mean, this entire doc can just be prompted into existence in 30 seconds, has no substance whatsoever.
I mean exactly what you experienced. They did not go the enterprise way bc they did not want to become Box. They didn't think they could provide a good UX if they focused on enterprise.
Dropbox saw that the only B2C path for a company like them was to become Box, and they did not like it. Also, we kept criticizing Dropbox for moving away from a "folder that syncs".
I agree with a folder that syncs. Today I use dropbox, but I do my best to avoid interacting with it, because just clicking on the menubar icon makes me upset that no feature there is what I actually need. No sensible ignore rules, etc.
But I could have been wrong and focusing on dropbox was not the only path. But even if it wasn't, they fumbled every promising product they could. I mean, Mailbox, they pioneered (read acquired) the email swipe UX, then killed it.
Then there was that launch where they hyped some iCloud sync service that would allow apps to store settings and game states, etc. Whatever happened to that?
Today I'm so afraid that dropbox's more daring products will die faster than Google can retire theirs, that I simply do not use it for anything other than a folder than syncs where I can share links. And now that I think about it, it's been a while since I had to share a single link, so maybe I can just move to synching.
They refund those that know how to demand it, and that notice. If you have complex infra and not a lot of observability, you'll just assume the costs are legitimate. Imagine how much they're making off of those oops moments. Probably a bug chunk of their revenue reports.
Behavioral and pattern analysis is always in full overdrive when I drive. I drive in Africa, people never follow rules, red lights at crossings mean go for bikers, when there are no lights you can't just give right of way, or you'll never move. When nearing intersections, people accelerate so they can cross before you, and it's a long line, and they know you have right of way, so they accelerate to scare you into stopping. Amateurs freeze and hold up the line for a very long time, usually until a traffic officer shows up to unblock (multiply this by every intersection). In order for you to get anywhere, you have to play the same game, and get close enough to the point where they aren't sure you'll stop, and will hit you and will have to pay. So often at crossings you're always in near misses and they realize you're not going to stop, so they do. Everyone is skilled enough to do this daily. Your senses, your risk analysis, your spider sense are fully overclocked most of the time. And then there are all the other crazy things that happen, like all the insane lane zig zagging people do, bikers our of nowhere et night with no lights, memorizing all the pot holes in all roads in the city bc they aren't illuminated at night so you can drive at 80-120km/h, etc.
So no, it's not just your eyes. Lots of sensors, memory, processing, memory/mapping are required.
No. Just…no. Replace WP with any other hosted or self hosted solution. Been there. The plugin hell, the security hell, the performance hell…WP has many levels of hell.
I see, that's interesting that there is not a budget allocated for, say, X aides per senator, that they can hire and dismiss based on their current needs. I also see how "industry" takes advantage, because their expert advice costs $$$ but is fully subsidized by the lobbying budget. Govt can't compete, but some rules and a sustainable budget can solve this problem.
You can get aides so I’m not worried about their ages. Problem is how do you convince a competent tech aide to work for them at crap salary vs a tech company? Maybe get part time aides? Or just pay for some consulting hours?
He probably doesn’t know how. This message is em from Wordpress. There are many WP providers where you just signup and start writing. They don’t tell you that if you get to HN front page, your db will die.
I don’t know any static blog providers. He’d have to roll out his own or use Medium/Substack.