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Agree about the mice. For remote - try Roku. Their design is tip top.

The keyboard didn't work, mine broke, but the direction was right imo. Not enough testing I guess.

Thinner and lighter is better for a device you carry round 24/7.

Totally agree about the camera lenses. That's actually the first time I've read someone saying it here.

OTOH, I went into an Apple store recently and the industrial design has absolutely tanked since Ive left. I know nerds are happy about the extra ports etc., but the phones and macbooks are thicker and heavier and that is a step backwards for me. As for the iMac designs... yuck. I presume these are all designed without Ive, so stark is the contrast. The worst display I've seen in an Apple store, ever.

Talking to people.

Agreed, just following data can be a dangerous path. You have to build things because they’re the right thing to build. You need a cohesive vision not scattershot A-B tests. Unless you only care about short term profit, of course.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. That’s why the Facebooks die and the Apples and Googles last.

If you think Twitter can be easily cloned then you know everything about tech and nothing about business.

I tried copilot and found it an excellent way to inject subtle bugs into my code. It always had a seemingly plausible guess, that was never correct, and coding turned into a guessing game trying to spot the bugs it had injected and hoping I’d found them all.

> Firing easily and hiring easily are two sides of the same coin. If you can be fired easily, you will find a job easily

Yes, like 1930s America.

I guess you mean “you can be easily hired” rather than “you will find a job easily”. Very different things.

If your argument is that using someone else’s abstractions is bad because you can write your own (which is what this article is saying), then the standard cliched reply is accurate. Cliches are cliches for a reason.

Theory vs reality.

That’s why I always start a new app by writing my own operating system for it first.

Use frameworks, use libraries. They will save you time, make your code less buggy, make it easier to hire other people.

Writing your own ball of mud is great for a hobby but not for business.

A bit OT but if any JetBrains employees read this: please, please could you change the icon for webstorm? It is so ugly that it hurts my eyes. I will pay you to change the icon. Thanks.

Ha, I’d say Nokia is more like a musician who becomes a farmer then an astronaut and then works in a pub. A bit random.

All drinkers on HN - I recommend you do dry Jan or Octsober each year. I think it’s an easy way to check in with yourself and examine your relationship with alcohol.

If you find yourself counting the days to Feb 1st, you might want to do something about your drinking.

I’ve been veggie for 25 years. I accidentally ate some meat a few years and ago and, after vomiting through the night, it took me three days to recover. I actually lost my voice! My body rejected the meat, it felt unnatural to eat it.

Yeah maybe I should have said “ideated and created from scratch” as directly cloning other products or features is something they’ve done a lot.

My school years were utter misery. It was the worst period of my life.

I wish I had just stopped going. I was bright enough to teach myself, there was a decent library on my commute.

I wasted over a decade of my life unhappy. It was a good life lesson, it made me stronger and wiser and more grateful, but looking back it's pretty fortunate I'm still here to reflect on that lesson.

Schools, particularly high schools, needs to be completely reformed. They are prisons for the young.

The timing is too early and the product and the company are mismatched.

hardware, to an extent - but not fully developed

software - nope, it's all new, they can't do it

Ironically, if they’d gone for normal boring payments like the Asian messaging apps, instead of following the crypto fashion, they’d be a giant bank by now.

It’s like music. Most bands are capable of a great album, but the truly incredible artists can move from genre to genre constantly reinventing themselves.

To create an org that can do the latter (hello, Apple) seems incredible difficult, but it always seems to involve exceptionally creative leaders.

So the secret I think is to sell you mega status Facebook Borg and start afresh in a different area without the baggage of the previous app.

Think the OP is say - over the long term not since the recent somewhat desperate pivot.

Similar to sibling comments: copying your competitors is not R&D, and neither is building a software library that’s an incremental improvement on an existing OSS library.

Name one new product that Facebook built from scratch (did not acquire), launched, and made a sustained success of since their original social network.

The company cannot innovate and has bet the farm on their ability to innovate.

I’ve said it before: Facebook should monetise WhatsApp via payments (real payments, not crypto) and other services. That’s something within their capability and very much within their reach. Maybe they’re seeing that as a backup when VR fails, but the longer they leave it the bigger the risk someone else takes that market.

12 000 people out of 58 000 is “not a big deal”?

It’s especially a big deal in the context of Facebook’s decline and bleak outlook. They’ve been outcompeted by TikTok, and their bet on VR looks misguided.

Facebook look doomed, and this is a big step in that direction.

If sites like HN were that influential we’d all be running Linux on the desktop and listening to our nomads.

Not sure if that’s a good or bad thing.

please could you explain?

Yes.

I think it’s the USA. They were furious about this pipeline and angry at Germany for their dependence on Russian gas.

This turns Europe away from Russia and sends a strong signal.

It removes a carrot Russia would wave to Europe.

It’s under the cover of a messy situation.

It sends a warning sign to Russia about nuclear weapons. The US could wipe out all energy exports and destroy the Russian economy without deploying a single nuke.

I’d say Poland wouldn’t be capable of this. I mean, you’ve got to be really really really confident that it won’t be public knowledge you’ve done this. And I’d be worried to what extent my intelligence services had been infiltrated if I hadn’t done this type of intervention a dozen times before and gotten away with it.

The same logic leads me to conclude it’s one of the major powers, a country that regularly does major ops and gets away with it. One that wouldn’t be worried about being caught because they hadn’t been caught before.

So: Russia, US, China, Israel, U.K. would be contenders

Oops yes this is a very good point I missed.

Vue 3 is more exciting, but I'm stuck on Vue 2 for my real work due to dependencies. Much of Vue 3 has been backported, and you can use Vue 3 like Vue 2, so it doesn't matter too much... probably go for 3 as it's the standard now.

I've looked at Svelte. I was deterred by lack of ecosystem. Vue's is just big enough to be workable, I think Svelte doesn't offer enough to reach the Vue/React size - probably.