froggertoaster

> Other than I guess a one-off art project (which this may well be)?

Yes, it very obviously is.

> what's the point

Because it's there?

I used to use my Tandy to check my email, along with my brothers Mad and Sad.

An incredibly unhelpful comment.

Congrats, you just compared Steve Jobs to Alex Jones and proved the original commentor's point.

Agreed. I'm a fan of Troy's, but for a non-physical copy, it's too much money.

> I built a multi-million dollar company on it previously for what it’s worth.

Not a particularly useful anecdote, unless you're telling me your choice of Preact was some kind of linchpin. And I'd bet it was most certainly not.

Why would anyone use Preact? If I'm a team lead, why would I choose to use it over plain React? Would not my sense of risk be triggered at least a little?

I've talked to many React engineers and none of them have a good reason to use a library like Preact.

Once again, the author is content to reinvent the wheel unnecessarily and publish it as something that can/should be used in production. It's a useful toy, a nice exercise in "what can be done" but not much else. Yes, I'm aware of the countless "useless" things that get posted to HN all the time - none of them purport themselves to being anything more than what they are.

I have never met anyone with any sense using Preact, and I see no compelling reason to use Signals either when there are countless other libraries doing similar things, with developers that actually use them.

This is the kind of nerdy stuff I could read about all day.

It's hard to take this guy seriously knowing that part of his story is he traveled Australia in a van for months and basically left his kids behind.

This article is way too long for its message.

Find a different company with a different working culture.

My devs are not required to work more than 40 hours in a week and I go out of my way to ensure they don't have to endure any kind of crunch time.

"Because there's currently no high-level programming language for writing stateful software that I'm aware of. That's the short answer."

Huh?

Clickbait title - the first two questions are clearly questions to ask startups only.

Not every engineering role is for a startup.

Kenji Lopez-Alt's amazing book, The Food Lab, mentions this and so much more.

Precisely my concern.

Is it bad that the first metric the author shares is a borderline vanity metric (Github stars)?

I'm seeing some posts reference https://sso.tax/ - as a SaaS product manager, it should be a great reference for you as it's basically a showcasing of successful SaaS products that properly segment markets.

Completely agree with your take.

What does this even mean? I would encourage you to stop using this word so much lest you find it lose its meaning and impact. Try calling me a racist instead?

It would suck, and it might upend others. It would not upend my life.

> [Discovery CEO] Zaslav and mentor and investor John Malone have been public about their push to bring CNN back towards hard news coverage, and away from progressive commentary.

Laudable, and I hope they succeed. The progressive angle on everything has really undermined a lot of their credibility - and assuming they're able/willing to make the requisite changes internally to make this happen, it will still take years to regain that trust from their audience across the entire spectrum of viewers.

Not even one minute in and already been hit with statistics unrelated with startup success - they're all revolving around D&I.

Those are real issues, but the obvious political agenda is a turn-off.

I'm familiar with a couple of these, unfamiliar with others. One problem with your cited articles is the fact that most of them don't contain direct quotes - many of them are based on second- or even third-hand accounts.

Some of these are so flimsy I'm wondering if you sent these in jest or not. Are you an elaborate troll? Serious question, because if so, I'm taking the bait. :)

> https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

A quote from a low-level White House aide doesn't mean much. That said, I could see Trump saying this jokingly.

> https://www.vox.com/2015/7/8/8911467/donald-trump-immigrants...

I went through each bullet point and even followed links of sources. I suppose the first one was what you meant to send me? I'm familiar with this quote and it's definitely high on the list for cringe quotes. At worst this sounds xenophobic.

> https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/19/what...

I'm sorry, how does this quote (I watched the video) make him racist? He basically said nothing in that quote, except he didn't admit he was wrong, which is pretty par for the course.

> https://www.vox.com/2016/7/25/12270880/donald-trump-racist-r...

You actually picked an article with some teeth here. There are actually a couple of things in here that are pretty cringe from Trump's perspective (Chinese virus, anyone? Even though that turned out to be true! And the supposed Black vs White Apprentice - yeesh) but some are straight up ridiculous. 2004, he fired a Black contestant from The Apprentice? Is that really the best they got? Further, many of these are about actions taken by Trump businesses, not by Trump himself. Again note the indirect quotes from people.

BTW: you should use sources that aren't blatantly biased. Nice try, troll!

Precisely true.

Let's see some concrete evidence. I've seen plenty of anecdotal/made up evidence by people who are apparently mind readers and not much else.

Go for it. I'm waiting.

> In the last 10 years the only things that have really changed are legalizing of gay marriage (long overdue), #MeToo, some attention to the institutional racism that black people continue to live under and a long overdue reevaluation of widespread transphobia. That's literally it.

Um... that's literally it?

Bad take my guy. Just because you can copy/paste links and make citations doesn't make your take any more true. It smacks of extreme ignorance. And saying things like "on the right, we reacted to the first black US president by electing a bona fide white supremacist" just discredits you further - this is a highly politically charged statement that tells on your positions (and frankly, your mental state).

Serious question: what does "solving" social media even mean?

I did not take your question as critical at all. :)

None of the employees I have in the states they work in require me to pay out accrued vacation/sick time by law, so your point is moot because I wouldn't offer such a benefit anyways. That said, your cynicism is noted.

EDIT: my employees work across 4 states.