<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: sb8244</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sb8244</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 21:12:41 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=sb8244" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sb8244 in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This breaks down because Tailwind is not monetized, is completely free, and hasn't indicated it won't be.<p>There is a corporate side with other features that has <i>never</i> been free. I pay for it because it's great.<p>I'm not sure if you're purposefully misstating it at this point or not. Several people have corrected you and you seem to double down incorrectly each time.</p>
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<p>Writing with Pragmatic was such a great experience. Definitely a blessing that I was able to do that.<p>My experience with writing and royalties is just so different than this author's experiences.</p>
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<p>It adds accountability, which is unfortunately something that ends up lacking in practice.<p>If you write bad code that creates a bug, I expect you to own it when possible. If you can't and the root cause is bad code, then we probably need to have a chat about that.<p>Of course the goal isn't to be a jerk. Lots of normal bugs make it through in reality. But if the root cause is true negligence, then there's a problem there.<p>AI makes negligence much easier to achieve.</p>
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<p>Pragmatic has an inhouse book compiler. Most authors write in markdown and there's some special XML features you can use as well for it. Of course code linking is a first class feature.<p>It's a pretty nice system, actually.</p>
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<p>That's a strawman. It is not really related to the main point and I'm not sure of the point you're trying to make (maybe that tension exists?)<p>Obviously things take as long as they take. I've always been an educator of this back to the business leadership. In my experience, most business people truly have no freaking clue how a product gets built and code gets shipped.<p>Giving proactive updates (meaning not the day it was expected to be done according to last update) are important part of a professionals working life. There's always a tension between business and engineers. Engineers just generally don't do that well with tension and try to minimize it, or complain about it.</p>
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<p>If the bug affects 1 customer and the feature affects the rest, is the old feature complete?<p>It's not binary.</p>
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<p>Are we reading the same article?<p>Also, you do realize that writing is taught in an incredibly formulaic way? I can't speak to English as second language authors, but I imagine it doesn't make it easier.</p>
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<p>I read it just fine and everything made sense in it.<p>I would spend similar time debugging this if I were the author. It's a pretty serious bug, a non obvious issue, and would be impossible to connect to the ffi fix unless you already knew the problem.</p>
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<p>The article makes it sound as if there were govt negotiations to have them sent home. It is light on details though, but with that many people of a friendly nation / corporation I imagine they get treated differently.<p>I interpreted that to mean they may not have permanent US immigration issues vs "being deported".</p>
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<p>"if we build that feature, we'd have to own it."<p>"You're right, keep it on the 2028 roadmap"<p>That would be my experience in tech at least.</p>
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<p>My understanding is that mnesia is sort of a relic. Really hard to work with and lots of edge / failure cases.<p>I'm not sure if it should be salvaged?</p>
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<p>I made this for my high school chemistry project. We made it in the morning so it would be ready for our afternoon class.<p>It was drying in the chemistry back office and there must have been a draft. It exploded during a silent study hall.<p>Somehow they let us remake it for class that afternoon. We tried to put it on the floor as a joke, but our teacher was wearing sandals that day (no lab). She wasn't happy about it.<p>I originally got the idea (and prank idea) the previous year from a retiring chemistry teacher.</p>
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<p>Maybe my position on this is obvious, I honestly don't know a lot of how others see it.<p>Preface: I'm generally an AI skeptic.<p>There are a LOT of people who are doing "business work" for a living, which is significantly different than hands-on coding. AI gives these people a way to just automate all of the (maybe necessary) work that they don't want to do.<p>The final product being 80% good enough is fine. It is done and doesn't require them to spend time on something they don't want to do.<p>More often than not, it is at 80% today.</p>
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<p>I watch Youtube almost exclusively on TV. It's great as a cable replacement. The key for me was when my new TV actually had a decent built in TV OS and hardware. So scrolling and using the app isn't painful like it has been on past TVs or external plugin devices.</p>
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<p>Realms matter. I don't really feel that holding terms hostage between hardware and software worlds is worth much energy.<p>People that know enough to care will know within 1 second what the article is about.<p>"Soft real-time" is probably the correct term here, but that is actually more confusing for 99% of people.<p>"Interactive" is not descriptive. "Duplex" is certainly not obvious.</p>
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<p>A Pollyanna approach is not the answer (and rarely is.) I believe you've missed my point.<p>I'll state it again although I don't have good faith in this conversation: because the majority of people don't prioritize (or even believe in climate change), the tactics are going to be different than other social issues.<p>Literally look up any polling on the matter for "proof."</p>
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<p>Gross generalization and characterization.<p>You can push for change while also recognizing that others don't respond well to it. Why? Because you need to adjust tactics to get the outcome you want.<p>Blindly "spreading hope" is just as lazy imo as saying everything is futile.<p>You have to live in the world the way it is, not the way you want it to be.<p>And let me be very direct: I'm close to positive the approach you've shared will not work. Sorry. It will be too late by the time people get onboard (when it's clear that the medium-term negatives will outweigh shorter term costs).</p>
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<p>From my perspective, the feeling is people at large don't care. Likely because it's difficult, uncomfortable, expensive, or all 3.<p>Do I wish it wasn't that way? Yes. But what if it stays that way? Is there a solution then?<p>I'm not saying the fight shouldn't be had. I am saying that—at least in the USA—change doesn't really appear to be a priority unless the $ is there.</p>
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<p>It varies. Literally everything from how modals work, notifications, etc. all had to be written. The things that I take for granted in my React app were fairly complex to figure out.<p>I know there are paradigms to handle that now, although the details get complex in practice. For example, the idea of a "portal" in react is actually really important for layering modals and popups properly, but it can be difficult in LiveView.<p>The biggest single challenge I remember hitting was dynamic recursive forms (for example a logic builder). It took a lot of effort to get right.</p>
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<p>Congrats! This stable release is huge.<p>I built my (unfortunately) failed startup using LiveView for ~18 months. It was actually really good to work with and a great product experience.<p>I ended up integrating React into it as well for some particularly complex / mature libraries (react-grid-layout, WYSIWYG editor). Pretty seamless connection to backend LiveViews, and I tried to keep everything in LV as possible.<p>The biggest difficulty was hitting problems that I had solved 50 times in React, and had to solve from-scratch in LiveView. Once I figured out a problem, I could re-use it easily.</p>
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