snoman

It only has to be right once. Humanity won’t end until it does.

But nobody trusts AI. Whenever I leave my circle of engineering people and am along the general public, I hear nothing but contempt for it.

I honestly think that the windows phone development experience is where Microsoft majorly shit the bed. The sheer volume of breaking changes (and the severity of those breaks) meant rewriting a non-trivial amount of your app from version to version. I know multiple developers that just dropped support for windows phone as a result.

It’s almost like people that use the tools to the best of their ability will produce higher quality outputs. This is a new tool like we’ve never seen before with a low skill floor to use it. We don’t know what the skill ceiling is yet.

Maybe you’re the person I’ve been looking for but I’ve yet to find someone that actually maintains a zettelkasten that isn’t a researcher/author and doesn’t come to the conclusion that it’s a huge waste of time and energy.

My reading of it also violates the Boy Scout Rule. That is to say: if improving some portion of the codebase would make it better, but inconsistent, you should avoid the improvement; which is something that I would disagree with.

I think adherence to “consistency is more important than ‘good design’” naturally leads to boiling the ocean refactoring and/or rewrites, which are far riskier endeavors with lower success rates than iterative refactoring of a working system over time.

Less of a concern these days with hardware like a Mac Studio or Nvidia dgx which are accessible and aren’t noisy at all.

Are trying to say it’s not possible to write terms that give them the ability to sync your history without also letting them mine and sell all the insights from it?

There’s probably some compliance requirement that it’s technically possible to set it up without an internet connection, so they leave it there, but make it unreasonably difficult for a majority to do it.

Every salesperson will tell you that good products sell themselves and therein lies the real story.

If you don’t write solid code, it’s so much more important to be better at selling yourself than those who do.

I think it has more to do with bundling reducing the need to compete to zero. Change that and the economics of competition would take over and the changes would get prioritized but nobody at Teams needs to sell a single license, so the priorities become the bs like internal status and visibility and not product success.

How many companies have Teams for basically free with their 365 license but still pay for Slack? The marginal value of Teams is nearly zero.

Who says anyone’s reviewing anything? I’m seeing more and more influencers and YouTubers playing engineer or just buying an app from an overseas app farm. Do you think anyone in that chain gives the first shit what the code is like?

It’s the worst kind of disposable software.

If it is, it’s entirely self inflicted today. There’s some tentpole tech that is reliable enough to stick with and get things done. Has been for a while.

Same. I will say that dotnet for mobile development hasn’t kept up so I’ve gone react-native on that front for my startup. All dotnet on the backend though, and it’s great.

The second someone doesn’t pay attention to that warning and suffers an exfiltration, like the cap1 s3 incident, it’s aws’ fault as far as the media is concerned.

Quite the over-simplified straw man you have there.

LLMs generate tokens. They don’t have judgement. They would need judgement in order to have a basis for pushing back.

Humans have been using bad data to make decisions for a while now.

Meanwhile nothing epic will work on mint (at least I can’t get them working), there are frequently broken components of games (eg. phasmophobia mic won’t work), most multiplayer stuff with anti-cheat won’t work.

Whenever I see someone say “most modern games work flawlessly” I know they’re full of shit or just don’t do much gaming.

Don't get me wrong, I’m not going back to windows, but it’s not the panacea that people pretend it is. Often enough it doesn’t “just work” and you have to hunt down some additional command line args to get games to run.

You could say the same about computing as a hobby. Maybe that’s your point, hard for me to tell. I always compare it as a hobby to golf or hockey- both of which are common where I come from and pretty pricey hobbies.

As a business owner that pays the hardware bill, what you see as the benefit of your current environment - or a downside of moving to the cloud - I see in a completely different light. To some extent I’d be upset with arbitrary amounts of paid-for capacity just lying around with zero accountability for that spend.

That could have more to do with containerization than the cloud - and that was a goal if I recall.

This fired of some warning bells in my head. Is the data available to actually make a verifiable claim regarding those reliability metrics like you are.

There’s more than 3 options. That’s what the nuance is about.

Sometimes individual productivity isn’t even the measure of success and sometimes it needs to be sacrificed for group productivity.

I have been leaning the other way. There’s room for nuance in the discussion but a stance of certainty that full remote is just more effective screams “expert beginner.”

This idea that if you change your app in a way that some people don’t like, then the government legislate your features for you, is just mind boggling to me.

Not if there’s enough of them.

Unless you depend on Facebook for your livelihood, then this is a false equivalence.

RSU grants assume a growth rate (15%? I forget) so if they stay flat, go down, or grow slower than the baked-in growth rate, then you make less each year. If you do well enough, they’ll give you some RSUs to “make you whole” (as they used to say) but that doesn’t really happen anymore (or not much).