froggertoaster

Anyone else struck by how captivating Bill Watterson is as a writer, both in C&H and out?

Your words were so simple, but hit me in a place I did not expect. I also had a miserable childhood/adolescence, and I could not help but cry a little reading your words. I feel exactly the same way.

You can't "not really" this away. Most people don't bother looking at small package code, much less code for packages that are far more complex.

I upvoted this article, not because of its significance or because I think it's valuable (in truth, I think it contains a fair amount of slant), but because I'd love to hear some critical discourse on its contents.

Good on these employees for sticking by their ethos, but I feel in terms of problems in the world right now, there are much bigger fish to fry that Microsoft is in a position to correct. This seems a bit like missing the forest for the trees.

> A major issue that people talk about way less is well funded/large companies getting bullshit patents, and using them to sue their small startup competitors into the ground.

Do you have any examples?

> The world is shit, multiple genocides rage on, the world seems hell-bent on a rightward turn as the capital class’ wealth extraction schemes go on and on.

Not to be thoroughly unproductive, but an opening sentence like this is a complete turn-off to the rest of the article.

No, you are certainly not.

Yep, one of the many reasons I won't support the organization.

At least capitalist/for-profit organizations are honest about who they are.

I will never switch back to Firefox. Not until Mozilla as an organization fundamentally changes.

They pretend to be the "good guys" but they're a very different organization than they were 20 years ago.

> this is not REST

I feel like almost every API could have this footnote.

> off putting since has a tone with an agenda

completely agree, I read 2 sentences and closed it.

Your article was the first I thought of when Beeper Mini was released. I knew it had already been done by you and never saw the light of day for a reason!

Aren't you being ever so slightly myopic? That is one game out of literal dozens.

TBH, I thought the original post was bland. I'm glad I checked the comments, because your comment was a rollercoaster to say the least.

> The nurse called formula poison. An absolutely gross and ridiculous position.

After 5 kids in 10 years, you come to realize that the standards aren't agreed upon, and best practices/recommendations change YEAR TO YEAR without fail.

Breastfeeding is one of the worst things hoisted upon mothers who are told "you must try no matter what" - seemingly ignoring the mental and physical health of the mother and the father all the while.

Do you have links handy to other articles about this issue? I've never heard of it and I'm curious.

The article's assumption about the retainer - $2k/month - is its biggest flaw.

What are you giving away for $2k/month per client?

Seems like it should be much, much higher - and therefore less people total to serve. Seems like a win-win.

I have a $2 million/year dev agency w/ 7 employees (50% gross margin) and am curious - how did you land on the salesperson you have? I have not had a single salesperson yet and am wanting to grow, but am afraid of hiring someone who will just waste time.

Completely agree. In terms of the mental gymnastics that Apple fanboys sometimes go through, dynamic island has been the biggest head-scratcher for me in terms of their willingness to defend it.

Wonderful. I love the advent of open source LLMs, and love the turnkey nature of this product.

What sold me on ChatGPT was its efficacy combined with its ease of use. As the owner of a consultancy, I find time to do technical exploration to be more and more scarce - stuff like this that makes it super easy for me to run an LLM is most welcome.

Agreed - ARM put x86 on the clock, and Apple Silicon - the best implementation of ARM yet - is the death knell of x86. Every opinion to the contrary feels like cope, because it's coming, and fast.

Ok, and? Of course it can't reason - it's a prediction model that's really, really good at its job (at least around 80% of the time). But it's still incredibly useful.

Agreed, and I think your points will be missed amongst the cacophony of praise for the admittedly-entertaining article. Reminds you that you can dress anything up and people will accept it if it's eloquent and entertaining enough.

Care to elaborate?