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Any general coders wondering about React as their first front end framework - just use Vue. It’s easier, makes quite a lot more sense, has a “one true way” approach regarding many topics and can be comfortably learnt in a day. It’s easier for others to understand your code too.

JSX yuck.

Vue is learnable in a single day. React is almost as easy to learn.

Just hire React devs and give them a couple of days with Vue, no problem

Fantastic thanks. Care to take a go at explaining at a similar level PoW vs PoS?

This reads more like a list of America’s social problems than something specific to Chicago. It’s ironic that a big corporation complains about it, reminds me of tech companies criticising SF govt about the consequences of inequality in SF.

It’s really important not to make the false dichotomy of English Monarch vs French Republic. Not saying that’s happening here, but in these debates generally speaking it’s important to realise that France is exceptional and not representative when considering alternatives to England’s monarchy. A US or French style president is not the only or even the obvious alternative to an unelected head of state.

I enjoyed it. I liked the acknowledgement of the finiteness of life and the reality of hard decisions. That productivity books really are missing the point - tinkering at the edges to squeeze out 5% extra productivity does not confront the reality that you’ll still be unable to complete almost everything you really want to in life.

I think what was lacking is a bit more concrete guidance. I know it’s almost the point of the book not to provide any, but perhaps more qualitative examples would help.

Definitely helped me overall and changed my mindset somewhat.

join me on the outside - startup land is great!

> Researchers are scientists, not marketing-people

Guess you don’t work in academia.

Imagine what happens when that person doesn’t leave academia to have the opportunity to learn to code. They just stay on. And end up teaching coding.

Seeing how I agree with your thoughts in general, I’m now en route to pick up a copy of 4000 weeks. Thanks!

Speed != total effort.

You need to operate within your capacity. For me this seems frustratingly low (50 pretty focused hours a week). Don’t know if others have a higher capacity or they’re just postponing burnout, but I have tried to go beyond 50 hours and it always ends in enforced holiday.

I think in 10 years of teaching I met one student who genuinely might have skipped through the intro programming course without too much harm.

Being able to pass a test is indeed not a sign of mastery of the material (this might come as a shock to some! Just because you got good grades doesn’t mean you’ve mastered the subject! It just means you’re good at the test! But wait, why use tests then? Well, sit down, get comfortable and let me tell you a tale of how we got here…)

The fact this conversation exists highlights that our education system is silly. Without evidence, I subjectively like the ideas in “One World Schoolhouse” as an alternative.

Being individually very productive is not necessarily good for a company. Just wanted to point that out as a lot of HN (and offline) commenters say - well, I get so much more done when I’m not at work. But that misses the point: what matters is the team’s overall progress, which is (1) certainly not equal to the sum of each individual’s perceived productivity and (2) heavily a function of personal relationships and communication. that is why remote might seem like a great idea for the individual coder yet have managers stressed out of their minds.

I’ve spoken to so many managers about remote. Off the record, all of them have said it is a nightmare for them to coordinate the team.

they have also chosen to make life awful for everyone between their home and work, due to the pollution and noise from their car suffered by those on their commuter route

I’ve never met a single hiker who could easily navigate with map and compass in low visibility. I mean, how do you think you’re doing to do it if you can barely see your hand in front of your face? Navigating via map is ok if you have good visibility and can pick out landmarks. If you have a compass and can at least see some of the surrounding terrain a short distance away, you can maybe do it. But, as others pointed out, stick yourself on a mountain with no well worn tourist trail and low visibility and a compass won’t save you. It’s mostly trial and error at that point.

As my partner put it when discussing a group of fell runners - they all talk about navigating via compass, but in reality they just use gps all the time.

Until fairly recently I navigated entirely by map. The maps in the U.K. are slightly inaccurate despite their reputation, so even on a good day I’d make small mistakes. I switched to a phone map so I didn’t have to carry a big cumbersome physical map with me, and then I realised the value of gps. I’ve hiked in low visibility since when I would have definitely have gotten lost without gps - a gazillion criss crossing trails, high erosion, long flat featureless moorland with no landmarks whatsoever… challenging on a good day.

Can definitely confirm that exercise reduces my stress levels and improved my intellectual capacity. It is almost universal advice to startup founders to exercise frequently, and I think there’s a lot of personal experiences behind that.

I don’t agree. I’m better versed in politics than most and HN comes across as naive about it, but not crazy.

Nutrition seems a whole new ballgame. I’m going to speculate it’s because we know pretty much nothing about nutrition, and to hackers that’s unacceptable. We like to know the rules so we can hack them. But in nutrition no one even knows the rules, maybe the rules are different for different types of people, and that’s deeply unsatisfying.

Centring divs is now an out of date joke, grandad, get with it. Flex box ruined it.

Seriously, I wonder what the modern equivalent is? Using dev tools to find the source of an unwanted space? What do you mean property X is inherited but only from the last positioned ancestor with a flex size of pi and a negative z index?

Weird thing is, you can strengthen this muscle. After years of academia I became able to sit in presentation after presentation and listen to every detail.

At first I could do it for 20 mins, and after a decade I could listen to about 2 or 3 days worth.

It was mostly inane nonsense designed to further someone’s career rather than actual science, but still I could pay attention almost perfectly for hours on end.

In industry I see people switching off after 20 mins in presentations that are actually interesting! Just need to work out your ears.

That scares me. I’d want it to be a system so simple anyone could grasp the fundamentals very quickly. Reason being, it’s so important and complexity breeds oversights and bugs. Security is hard.

That’s odd, I don’t remember there being any advertising at all on those platforms in the early days.

I think TikTok’s success is based on: (1) far superior UX, (2) showing content from anyone as the default, giving them a large pool to draw from and avoiding the chicken and egg problem, and (3) an excellent (probably quite simple) ML loop that just throws video at you until it finds something you like.

TikTok feels like an intense drug hit compared to Facebook. It’s easy to lose time to it, a LOT of time.

I didn’t think I’d like it until it figured out I enjoyed DIY / makers videos. Then 30 mins went by before I realised and deleted the app.

Instagram isn’t dead, but it does appear to be doomed. At the moment all it does it buy them a bit of time to find a way out, which they almost certainly won’t (as they’ve had a longer period to do so already).

The hottest temperature by a couple of degrees. That’s a ridiculously large jump.

Indeed, be careful NYC.

It’s a place full of amazingly creative people but let the rents climb and you’ll end up like London.

Find this such an odd assertion, it doesn’t make sense.

If you have peers around your age, and you continue to spend time with them (as friends, colleagues etc) then surely this is false.

I wonder if it’s more of a reference to academia? Most people figure out academia and quit, others want to stay but don’t make it, so the pyramid scheme leads to only one of a cohort surviving?

There’s a lot of political chat on this thread, and usually geopolitical discussions seem to bifurcate into two falsehoods amongst nerds.

The first group seem to be missing the terrible things the US has done to the world. It has had unrivalled military and economic dominance for the best part of a century and it has abused that power. Whether that’s invading countries, organising coups, killing foreign citizens in large numbers via CIA operations, etc etc, America has shown little restraint. I think often folks are not aware of this, because (a) a lot of America’s imperialism doesn’t get much news coverage in the west and (b) the victim countries are often not very interesting or significant to that audience. Only the really obvious events like Iraq get flagged.

And on the other side, there is this tendency to demonise America and defend other countries in order to criticise America. So, ignoring the realities of what China and Russia have done to other countries and their own people. I mean, just look at the eastern block communist countries, or what is going on in Ukraine now, to see how Russia operates. I’m less knowledgeable about China but internally the government has tried to unite the country by eliminating all types of diversity in very disturbing Orwellian ways. Externally it hasn’t found its military feet quite yet, but we can see the use of soft power to cripple countries in a way not dissimilar to western imperialism.

I think what does bother me is that either viewpoint is very black and white, very simplified, and ignores the positive things that those countries do achieve. The truth is the world is complex, it’s a mixed bag, and “America is great” or “America is pure evil” are viewpoints that lack any sense of nuance. I mean, America is not one president or one set of staff or one institution. Its government is multifaceted and can be in public disagreement with itself.

I think the big issue with America is the influence of corporate power, the way capital interacts with democracy, that’s its biggest sin when it comes to geopolitics, that’s where to focus your anger and inquiry.

There’s a much simpler and more effective way. I met someone who had done that work for a chess company, done some ML to detect cheats, and they were surprised how easy it was to detect changes.I’m not going to post the solution but you might be able to guess if you think through the feature space. It’s obvious in retrospect.

Like sales or engagement? That’s way behind VC signals.

Doesn’t use the technology against opponents much, yet.

Alternative is not to use the technology.