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New comment by dukeyukey in "GitHub's Fake Star Economy"

dukeyukey — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:18:09 +0000

But given the amount of astroturfing and star-buying out there, relying on star counts may well select for deceptive founders.

New comment by dukeyukey in "GitHub's Fake Star Economy"

dukeyukey — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:11:42 +0000

Honestly I don't know if that's true. Picking up on vibes might be better than something like GitHub stats.

New comment by dukeyukey in "Advice to young people, the lies I tell myself (2024)"

dukeyukey — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:38:44 +0000

How did they get colleagues in the first place without cold-applying?

New comment by dukeyukey in "Spring Boot Done Right: Lessons from a 400-Module Codebase"

dukeyukey — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:59:47 +0000

Even in startups, lots of places are on Spring Boot (albeit more often using Kotlin over Java).

New comment by dukeyukey in "Spring Boot Done Right: Lessons from a 400-Module Codebase"

dukeyukey — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:59:08 +0000

Alternatively, I think of Java and Spring Boots as being incredibly valuable by letting companies that don't really have software as a core competency to make reasonably performant and structured applications.

Mediocrity will never not exist, and you unlock a lot of value by optimising for it.

New comment by dukeyukey in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

dukeyukey — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:57:05 +0000

The 1st Amendment is old, but the way it's applied today is quite radical compared to how it was applied for most of American history. The US being so free speech isn't much older than the median American is.

New comment by dukeyukey in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

dukeyukey — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:53:30 +0000

Worth pointing out the modern American conception of freedom of speech is super recent. It only really became a thing in the 1970s. Before then, restrictions on porn, film, even written materials on controversial subjects like abortion could and were regulated.

New comment by dukeyukey in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

dukeyukey — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:44:05 +0000

Worth pointing out the US has similar restrictions already. Why is the UK catching flak for discussing this?

New comment by dukeyukey in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

dukeyukey — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:43:16 +0000

Why? I run a few.

New comment by dukeyukey in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

dukeyukey — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:41:46 +0000

They didn't put it very well but they're right that being the 6th largest economy, and likely to become the 5th or 4th quite soon puts a hole in the "economically irrelevant" accusation.

New comment by dukeyukey in "Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland"

dukeyukey — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:18:14 +0000

Surely there's a massive overlap, in that a country that has been trustworthy in the past derives a certain level of power from that? Like, Trump randomly declaring tariffs means a deal is not worth making, which erodes American economic power as countries find other suppliers and customers.

New comment by dukeyukey in "We mourn our craft"

dukeyukey — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:56:39 +0000

I've been a professional programmer for 8+ years now. I've stomached that life. I've made things people used and paid for.

If I can do that typing one line at a time, I can do it _way_ faster with AI.

New comment by dukeyukey in "Why more companies are recognizing the benefits of keeping older employees"

dukeyukey — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 11:43:07 +0000

"Work" does not exclusively mean "work full time for a wage".

New comment by dukeyukey in "How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital"

dukeyukey — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:29:27 +0000

And also, IG Group is a British company, HQ'd in London, traded on the London Stock Exchange. "British stock trading company acquired by British stock trading company" is a pretty boring event.

New comment by dukeyukey in "How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital"

dukeyukey — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:26:35 +0000

I don't think so. Like sure, if you're a Bangladeshi living in Tower Hamlets you could probably get away with a limited life speaking only Bengali, but you could say the same about Spanish in swathes of the US. Realistically, you need English.

New comment by dukeyukey in "How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital"

dukeyukey — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 23:46:12 +0000

> But it isn't true. For the rest of the world SV is still the place to go to, one way or another.

We are using different meanings for the same phrase. SV is the best place to raise, IF YOU CAN AND ARE WILLING TO RAISE THERE. But not everyone can, nor does everyone want to. And of the locations that are not in the US, London dominates.

And hell, Americans raise in Boston, Seattle, NYC, and so on. Not even all Americans move to SV, let alone people who may not even get a visa to enter the US.

New comment by dukeyukey in "How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital"

dukeyukey — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 23:36:29 +0000

Housing is super expensive, but even that is coming down. Transport is a bit expensive, bit it's fine. Everything else is pretty reasonable!

New comment by dukeyukey in "How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital"

dukeyukey — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 23:16:47 +0000

The article doesn't dispute that London is way behind SV. What it's saying is that for non-US funding, London dominates.

New comment by dukeyukey in "How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital"

dukeyukey — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:53:51 +0000

This doesn't seem true, I work in a UK tech company and it's an incredibly international team. My team has three Brits (including me), a Norwegian, a Swede, a Pole, and an American. The CEO is Irish, the CTO is German/American.

Obviously that's just one data point, but every tech company is similar.

New comment by dukeyukey in "How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital"

dukeyukey — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:48:54 +0000

I don't know Aakash Gupta so I can't say if he's lying or just didn't do his research, but I know the IPO figures he cited there are wrong, like very wrong, which puts everything else there in doubt.

Not to mention location of IPO not being all that important. But that's a whole separate thing.