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New comment by nodejs_rulez_1 in "Transformers from Scratch (2019)"

nodejs_rulez_1 — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 21:36:16 +0000

No magnetic flux = no interest.

New comment by nodejs_rulez_1 in "Transformers from Scratch (2019)"

nodejs_rulez_1 — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 21:18:24 +0000

Guys, don't click the link. It's actually not about transformers, but in fact some machine learning BS (which, given the peak hype year of 2019 for ML, is not surprising).

New comment by nodejs_rulez_1 in "Ask HN: What are your 2022 predictions?"

nodejs_rulez_1 — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 21:15:44 +0000

> In the UK: Covid will dimish in importance enough for people to disentangle the negative consequences of Brexit, leading to widespread use of the Pikachu shocked face meme. Scottish independence will take a step forward, with a new referendum scheduled for 2023.

Very interesting, transfer of such a financial liability as Scotland from UK to EU may even offset at least some of the Brexit damage! Followed by more Pikachu faces, but under different flags.

New comment by nodejs_rulez_1 in "German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice"

nodejs_rulez_1 — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:58:21 +0000

Not the worst habit. One vague possibility of a bonus/promotion and they will mess saving feature up one way or the other.

New comment by nodejs_rulez_1 in "German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice"

nodejs_rulez_1 — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:49:11 +0000

That's a very clever argument actually. Clerks in government just want like better utility knives, instead they will be offered CNC machines!

New comment by nodejs_rulez_1 in "German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice"

nodejs_rulez_1 — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:43:16 +0000

> If they put half the money they spent on licensing into paying people to improve the foss packages...

Like in a legally-binding contract way or some hippie way hoping for the best?

New comment by nodejs_rulez_1 in "Why Emacs: Redux"

nodejs_rulez_1 — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 11:25:26 +0000

If you pick a language designed by someone who explicitly hates tooling, then you are bound to suffer from the lack of good tooling.

New comment by nodejs_rulez_1 in "If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big thing won’t matter"

nodejs_rulez_1 — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 17:59:58 +0000

That OS bubble you are in isn't making you any favours.

New comment by nodejs_rulez_1 in "If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big thing won’t matter"

nodejs_rulez_1 — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 17:59:05 +0000

I recently tried to block YouTube ads on an iPad and failed. Equally surprised to see OS updates bring new feature changes that simply cannot be disabled (tab/app groupings). I mean there aren't that many Safari/iOS config options to choose from to begin with! What an insanity.

Samsung still makes cheap tablets that are awesome in terms of hardware, right?

New comment by nodejs_rulez_1 in "Steps Towards Happiness (2015)"

nodejs_rulez_1 — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 09:44:04 +0000

The intentions there are good, but reads bit unrealistic in some places. Being a boomer, author doesn't realise how far financially he is then many people who are younger.

> Stop wasting your time on commuting, boring jobs, meetings, TV. Do only things that you feel are worthwhile, with people you like. If this means a cut in income, so be it.

TV - sure, commuting - thanks to COVID only, the rest - sorry, but I would like a house/pension/family.

New comment by nodejs_rulez_1 in "Selecting a programming language can be a form of premature optimization"

nodejs_rulez_1 — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 09:30:09 +0000

Python, like all dynamic languages, works best to bash out a new project into production ASAP, get a bonus and move on, while poor folks maintaining after you are trying to untangle it.

New comment by nodejs_rulez_1 in "Holding back tears, the COP26 president says he is “deeply sorry”"

nodejs_rulez_1 — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 15:09:49 +0000

That means climate change is not that much of an emergency. Not a top priority in terms of expenditure.

New comment by nodejs_rulez_1 in "Holding back tears, the COP26 president says he is “deeply sorry”"

nodejs_rulez_1 — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 10:37:11 +0000

Why not fund anti-climate-change projects from welfare funds?

New comment by nodejs_rulez_1 in "Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time"

nodejs_rulez_1 — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 23:39:03 +0000

Hearing about a JS framework "X" that is surely that much more elegant than "Y" feels like it's 2010s again!

New comment by nodejs_rulez_1 in "PlayDate Fulfillment Delayed"

nodejs_rulez_1 — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 23:36:07 +0000

Interesting, that one cannot delay a (pre-)payment (except as a credit) yet the goods can be delayed randomly. Seems like some asymmetry there.

New comment by nodejs_rulez_1 in "PlayDate Fulfillment Delayed"

nodejs_rulez_1 — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 23:33:18 +0000

I think it's like that statistics about most of purchased Steam games not being played or something like that. You buy an idea that you could have enjoyed this device.

New comment by nodejs_rulez_1 in "The burgeoning business of OnlyFans consulting"

nodejs_rulez_1 — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 23:28:33 +0000

If I had to guess, it's more about some quasi-girlfriend experience or something like that. I think they can even "meet a fan in a hotel" for the right "donation". Though that might have been Twitch. Hard to tell these days, I am not a simpologist!

New comment by nodejs_rulez_1 in "Ask HN: What do you think about the no-code movement?"

nodejs_rulez_1 — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 15:53:15 +0000

> I am an engineer with 20+ years of hands on keyboard, I've got projects that are now part of Apache, 1000's of stars on github. I've been CTO at a number of startups that have got significant funding. My point is to establish some credibility. I probably still suck.

More about being in a right place at a right time, but granted.

> Having said that, I have been working with Microsoft PowerAutomate for the past 1.5 years and while it has saved a lot of time and been overall a good experience, there are times when the no code/low code gets in the way and I wish I could just "drop into code" to get something done. Examples are things like data validation. This technology is not going to replace coding, the paradigm shift is really happening for people in the marketing and sales operations parts of the business. For these folks, this tech is life changing. In a lot of ways, this tech felt like when you try a new framework in your language of choice; at first it's super easy and you get hyped, and then you hit a requirement where the nocode/lowcode environment really gets in the way.

I think higher-level languages with a dual code-graphic representation and a possibility to drop into lower level are an interesting option, but even that is not new - Unreal/Unity3D etc.

New comment by nodejs_rulez_1 in "Ask HN: What do you think about the no-code movement?"

nodejs_rulez_1 — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 15:32:07 +0000

> What do you think about this movement?

It's not a movement, more like a mini-trend based on rediscovery of an old idea. At least not a pure investor duping like "metaverse".

> Clearly these apps/platforms enable non-developers to solve a bunch of problems which would otherwise need a software engineer. Is this a paradigm shift?

If it is, it happened in the last century and many times since then already. You could still hype it up for a new domain to grab some investor money, I guess.

New comment by nodejs_rulez_1 in "Ask HN: What HN threads most influenced your thinking about startups?"

nodejs_rulez_1 — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 17:18:33 +0000

Mostly general consensus/sentiment, that start-ups are not worth working for anymore due to investor/founder greed in terms of stock options allocation.