Hacker News: 88913527

New comment by 88913527 in "Tailwind CSS marketing and misinformation engine"

88913527 — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 07:38:33 +0000

While I agree with the principle of "clean markup", whenever I open up the DOM of websites I did not create (and I do so with regular frequency), I generally do not see what I'd consider clean. The author is correct but it's not that frequent of a practice; I wish it were so. Care for our craft is an uncommon thing.

New comment by 88913527 in "UI = f(statesⁿ)"

88913527 — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 21:12:53 +0000

react-query's useQuery hook makes the proper data sharing and optimistic updates a breeze.

New comment by 88913527 in "How to keep engineers out of meeting hell"

88913527 — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 17:22:11 +0000

Leaders have a responsibility to ensure their teams deliver. When the teams agree to async communication --and the channels remain silent-- where is the accountability when there is no deliverable and no visibility into the scenario that led to no output? To be clear, this doesn't mean 100% sync. But a 10 minute daily sync can ensure the team is focused on producing something of business value. Maximal autonomy within some guardrails keeps the ICs and management at their best.

New comment by 88913527 in "Thoughts on tech employment"

88913527 — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 04:19:06 +0000

Most lived experiences with off-shore talent are due to labor costs. There are great offshore engineers but many work for companies who aren't hiring at the top end of the local market: they're hiring off-shore to save. You get what you pay for. And that leads to impressions, even if incorrect ones.

New comment by 88913527 in "React has grown beyond its original promise and it's causing more harm than good"

88913527 — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 05:05:11 +0000

We're at the point where many newer engineers haven't had real hands-on DOM experience but are expected to deliver applications built in React. You need to know at least one level abstraction below your current one to use the tool effectively. This all tracks with how the industry's changed, how we hire, how we train, and so on.

New comment by 88913527 in "United finds loose bolts on plug doors during 737 Max 9 inspections"

88913527 — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 22:24:10 +0000

Some part of the process -- anywhere from specs to assembly-- had some cost cutting that led to the outcome. The root cause of this problem is something financially motivated.

New comment by 88913527 in "Is This How Amazon Ends?"

88913527 — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 22:12:52 +0000

It works because they have AWS. If the entirety of the business was only the consumer site, it's looking more and more like Wish with each passing day.

New comment by 88913527 in "Holiday Spending Increased, Defying Fears of a Decline"

88913527 — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 17:49:15 +0000

We did have high inflation for a year, and were told it was temporary, before tools were deployed. Would a sustained period of deflation be met with a similarly lagged response?

New comment by 88913527 in "Holiday Spending Increased, Defying Fears of a Decline"

88913527 — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 16:46:46 +0000

Disappointment in the permanent increases in prices. All else equal, people want deflation after a period of elevated inflation levels.

New comment by 88913527 in "Bluesky migrates to single-tenant SQLite"

88913527 — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 02:54:26 +0000

This is reasonable, but the problem I encounter is how stifling it seems to ask others to structure their work so specifically. By way of comparison, getting compliance on conventional commit messages is a challenge, and that's an appreciably smaller ask than this.

New comment by 88913527 in "There's Never Been a Worse Time to Buy Instead of Rent"

88913527 — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 21:10:16 +0000

A quarter of households have net worths greater than $600,000. https://dqydj.com/net-worth-percentile-calculator/

New comment by 88913527 in "There's Never Been a Worse Time to Buy Instead of Rent"

88913527 — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 17:00:23 +0000

Not necessarily. The returns from your all-cash purchase would be greater had you invested in treasuries. Rental yields and the 10 year recently flipped (after over a decade of rental income returns beating treasuries).

New comment by 88913527 in "LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees"

88913527 — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 21:41:23 +0000

You can have a LinkedIn profile but not use the feed-- I don't see how that's necessarily frustrating. Make a profile, provide the link on job applications. Occasionally edit your profile so it's up to date. Then, don't use it. Simple enough.

New comment by 88913527 in "Ask HN: Googlers, Will Google Disable Accounts for Using Adblockers on YouTube?"

88913527 — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 15:32:41 +0000

What about people with organizational accounts? For example, if I use ad blocker logged into my work Google account, which my employer presumably pays a per-seat cost for.

New comment by 88913527 in "Organization probably doesn't want to improve things"

88913527 — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 02:40:47 +0000

You can make improvements, but it ends up being small things that you can showcase to leaders to demonstrate that progress is happening, but it's nothing of actual material value. It's a lot like public political discourse where a policy solution is touted, all the ooh's and ahh's, but then nothing really changes.

New comment by 88913527 in "Could we make C arrays memory safe? Probably not, but let's try"

88913527 — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 03:59:16 +0000

Is there a reason discussion around C is phrased like this? My reaction to that quote is, "yeah it could possibly have some issues we're not really sure of, but it seems reasonably battle-tested too". It evokes a bit of mixed signal messaging, to me at least.

New comment by 88913527 in "Leaked screenshot shows Amazon now tracking individual employee attendance"

88913527 — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 14:37:52 +0000

It's normal for a badge-checking system, but it's still an erosion of white-collar norms (autonomy being the key one) to be so proscriptive about how knowledge workers complete their work.

Side note, but when I worked somewhere with badged entrances, one person would badge the whole group. So this data wouldn't mean employees aren't there if there is no swipe.

New comment by 88913527 in "Inflation Bites U.S. Engineering Salaries"

88913527 — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 23:51:43 +0000

And the definition of middle class is looking more like "owning a condo" than owning a single-family home in a high cost of living area, the type of area where it's easier to get a $200k income.

New comment by 88913527 in "The elderly are becoming homeless at a rate not seen since the Great Depression"

88913527 — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 13:32:38 +0000

You're both correct. Individual SKUs varying by $1-2 between two different metros isn't surprising or unrealistic. Stores also adjust pricing weekly, and items on offer tend to rotate as well, so comparing point-in-time prices could be volatile. None of this means the inflation didn't occur, just that one specific example may not be telling the full picture.

New comment by 88913527 in "I moved states just before the return-to-office order at Amazon, so I quit"

88913527 — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 12:37:33 +0000

Are they missing the money or the environment? It could be both, but bigtech compensation is one of the few places left to create a solid balance sheet for a household, and that's first and foremost what bigtech offers to its employees.