I agree with your take, most of it boils down to ego, I believe.
Lot of it was bad, sure, but there was so much games and animation done by literal kids back then, because of how easy it was to create something with the tooling. Nothing even come close today, unfortunately.
This will greatly increase developer velocity (by making them run far away).
Same, I'm currently working more in React project, and I miss Angular so much that I actually use it in my personal project, it can be a genuine pleasure to use if you avoid over-engineering the rest. React shines when…
Agree. RxJS is a beast to approach at first but it's a genuinely cool library, as long as you don't spread observable around when you don't actually need them. I used the same approach for a few years (pushing my http…
As someone who feels stressed about not feeling able to finish the side projects I have (that is, working on my music player, learn Arabic, and learning to draw), this is a very refreshing take. Thank you for this.
I think the implication is that even though the technological landscape is evolving, it's not as if people born in the 60's couldn't foray into computer science because they arrived too late to study the ENIAC first.
I'm not sure why you're downvoted, but this is the right take IMO. I hate cheating and lying in general, but in any job posting you have to separate what are the actual requirement in term of knowledge versus what can…
A few years ago there was a thread about "How complex systems fail" here on HN[1], and one aspect of it (rule 9) is about how individuals have to balance between security and productivity, and being judged differently…
In his "Power of Simplicity"[1] talk, Alan Kay had a great illustration of this specific phenomenon using astronomy: Before Johannes Kepler had the insight of describing the orbits of the planets with ellipsis, peoples…
> Maybe we're just calling all forms of automation and computer vision "AI" these days because it's sexy. Funny thing is, at first it was the other way around! 'Computer Vision' has always been a sub-field of AI, but…
Passion, drive, and existential fulfillment can take many form, and "professional joy" can absolutely be one of them. It's not about drinking the corporate kool-aid, but about taking pride in what you've put in the…
I'm a bit surprised at reading that. I've tried both, Next left a bad taste in my mouth, but Nest was kinda neat. Didn't used it for anything too complicated though, so I'm curious about what sort of grievances people…
Except that now Youtube also "helpfully" auto-dub legitimate videos in other languages (along with translating the titles) by default, so even the 'AI voice' isn't a good signal for gauging if it's quality content or…
If you like cringe humor, you might 'enjoy' the web tv show "2Kawaii4Comfort" on YouTube, about late teens/young adults going to an anime convention. It's very well written, and it's the first time I've physically…
Another TV show that played with this concept well is "30 Rocks", with the main protagonist dreading to go to her high school reunion because she was a nerdy girl mocked by the high-school bully, As the episode go on,…
Simple: Two wrongs don't make a right.
Next time I'll be ranting against overengineering, I'll be stealing that :D
For me, LLMs are a bit like if you were shown a talking dog with the education and knowledge of a first grad student: a talking dog is amazing in itself, and a truly impressive technical feat, that said you wouldn't…
I don't think it's a Javascript problem in the sense that it's due to intrinsics properties of Front-end developpement, or of NPM, but I do agree that's in a cultural problem in the Javascript ecosystem, especially…
I haven't seen it mentioned here, but one other classic trick for hamburger menu is to use a checkbox, and let CSS handle the rest. Something like: <header class="main-header"> <input class="hamburger"…
While I also agree about the general stupidness of what3words and the clearly predatory move of trying to move GPS location behind a proprietary database, the article is not about what3words at all. The link is about a…
No, it has a 3d engine, one that you can happily ignore 99.9999% of the time. CSS has a few gotcha, a few things to got to understand about it (selectors, selector priority and the way content flow depending on absolute…
It was the basis of the plot of the first Jurassic Park movie. All shenanigans started because Dennis Nedry, the parc IT manager, disabled some security system at a bad time so he could sell some company secrets to…
This is the big one for me. In any big enough or unfamiliar frontend project, my go-to way to explore the codebase is to launch the front-end, and use the inspector to check the elements, and then search-back in the…
I agree with your take, most of it boils down to ego, I believe.
Lot of it was bad, sure, but there was so much games and animation done by literal kids back then, because of how easy it was to create something with the tooling. Nothing even come close today, unfortunately.
This will greatly increase developer velocity (by making them run far away).
Same, I'm currently working more in React project, and I miss Angular so much that I actually use it in my personal project, it can be a genuine pleasure to use if you avoid over-engineering the rest. React shines when…
Agree. RxJS is a beast to approach at first but it's a genuinely cool library, as long as you don't spread observable around when you don't actually need them. I used the same approach for a few years (pushing my http…
As someone who feels stressed about not feeling able to finish the side projects I have (that is, working on my music player, learn Arabic, and learning to draw), this is a very refreshing take. Thank you for this.
I think the implication is that even though the technological landscape is evolving, it's not as if people born in the 60's couldn't foray into computer science because they arrived too late to study the ENIAC first.
I'm not sure why you're downvoted, but this is the right take IMO. I hate cheating and lying in general, but in any job posting you have to separate what are the actual requirement in term of knowledge versus what can…
A few years ago there was a thread about "How complex systems fail" here on HN[1], and one aspect of it (rule 9) is about how individuals have to balance between security and productivity, and being judged differently…
In his "Power of Simplicity"[1] talk, Alan Kay had a great illustration of this specific phenomenon using astronomy: Before Johannes Kepler had the insight of describing the orbits of the planets with ellipsis, peoples…
> Maybe we're just calling all forms of automation and computer vision "AI" these days because it's sexy. Funny thing is, at first it was the other way around! 'Computer Vision' has always been a sub-field of AI, but…
Passion, drive, and existential fulfillment can take many form, and "professional joy" can absolutely be one of them. It's not about drinking the corporate kool-aid, but about taking pride in what you've put in the…
I'm a bit surprised at reading that. I've tried both, Next left a bad taste in my mouth, but Nest was kinda neat. Didn't used it for anything too complicated though, so I'm curious about what sort of grievances people…
Except that now Youtube also "helpfully" auto-dub legitimate videos in other languages (along with translating the titles) by default, so even the 'AI voice' isn't a good signal for gauging if it's quality content or…
If you like cringe humor, you might 'enjoy' the web tv show "2Kawaii4Comfort" on YouTube, about late teens/young adults going to an anime convention. It's very well written, and it's the first time I've physically…
Another TV show that played with this concept well is "30 Rocks", with the main protagonist dreading to go to her high school reunion because she was a nerdy girl mocked by the high-school bully, As the episode go on,…
Simple: Two wrongs don't make a right.
Next time I'll be ranting against overengineering, I'll be stealing that :D
For me, LLMs are a bit like if you were shown a talking dog with the education and knowledge of a first grad student: a talking dog is amazing in itself, and a truly impressive technical feat, that said you wouldn't…
I don't think it's a Javascript problem in the sense that it's due to intrinsics properties of Front-end developpement, or of NPM, but I do agree that's in a cultural problem in the Javascript ecosystem, especially…
I haven't seen it mentioned here, but one other classic trick for hamburger menu is to use a checkbox, and let CSS handle the rest. Something like: <header class="main-header"> <input class="hamburger"…
While I also agree about the general stupidness of what3words and the clearly predatory move of trying to move GPS location behind a proprietary database, the article is not about what3words at all. The link is about a…
No, it has a 3d engine, one that you can happily ignore 99.9999% of the time. CSS has a few gotcha, a few things to got to understand about it (selectors, selector priority and the way content flow depending on absolute…
It was the basis of the plot of the first Jurassic Park movie. All shenanigans started because Dennis Nedry, the parc IT manager, disabled some security system at a bad time so he could sell some company secrets to…
This is the big one for me. In any big enough or unfamiliar frontend project, my go-to way to explore the codebase is to launch the front-end, and use the inspector to check the elements, and then search-back in the…