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New comment by windows2020 in "The Age of Snarky UI"

windows2020 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:18:09 +0000

Windows 11 decides to update and says, "You're x% there."

Later, the computer jumps from 30% to nothing. "You might want to plug in your PC."

Then the next morning Copilot appears.

Too many cooks in the kitchen it seems.

New comment by windows2020 in "Sadly, the End of Star Trek Is Now Official"

windows2020 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:25:09 +0000

I recently bailed on SNW after realizing the cringe factor and unprofessionalism was to stay. Started watching TOS. Hope this isn't really the end of Star Trek and just this misguided period of it.

Ask HN: Mission Aligned Teams and OKRs

windows2020 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 01:24:24 +0000

Share your success (or failure) story involving switching from a pooled resource model and continous prioritization strategy to mission aligned teams with OKRs.

Mission aligned teams: Product vs. implementation surface * Codebase age and complexity * Team size and specializations * Flex capacity

OKRs: Behind the scenes foundational work * Shared work * Objective vs. agility

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47175054

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by windows2020 in "Tech firms aren't just encouraging their workers to use AI. They're enforcing it"

windows2020 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 01:36:33 +0000

OK, for real, how are you working through inexperienced developers cranking out tons of stuff that makes no sense? Not talking about verbose code, but concise bits of code that they think they understand but don't.

Previously, copying and pasting from SO got you so far, but at a point, increased understanding was required to string things together. No longer.

I'm all for mentoring but it's always short notice and starting from some crazy thing.

New comment by windows2020 in "AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says"

windows2020 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 04:35:03 +0000

Bees seem like they know what's going on. What about a cell, though? A virus?

New comment by windows2020 in "AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says"

windows2020 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 04:29:13 +0000

Well, unless intellect is immaterial.

New comment by windows2020 in "The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022)"

windows2020 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 01:49:24 +0000

Maybe that's when they run all those crazy legacy jobs, but they politely shut the site down for it.

New comment by windows2020 in "How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe"

windows2020 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 05:41:20 +0000

One process redesign that may be considered a moat for AI is employees intending to communicate through a sentence or two first passing the text into their AI of choice and asking it to elaborate. On the other end the colleague uses their AI to summarize the email into a bullet point or two. It's challenging for those that don't use AI to keep up.

New comment by windows2020 in "Emoji Design Convergence Review: 2018-2026"

windows2020 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 05:47:51 +0000

Not much of a difference between replacing a gun emoji with a water gun and find replacing "gun" with "water gun"

New comment by windows2020 in "Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS"

windows2020 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 05:39:47 +0000

Until then, display: table kept everyone calm.

New comment by windows2020 in "It's harder to read code than to write it"

windows2020 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:21:00 +0000

Yes, it's harder and takes longer to read code. Hopefully this reality will propagate to leadership.

But there's something more. It's the benefits of a first-look perspective. With these tools that's lost.

Also, it seems like we've entered phase two of sorts in the sense of we solve LLMish #1 issues by running it by #2. So writing and reviewing. I wonder what #3 will be. Maybe confirming.

New comment by windows2020 in "In leaked recording, Nvidia CEO says its insane managers aren't using AI enough"

windows2020 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 02:21:28 +0000

Makes sense an 'AI' chip maker would say that.

New comment by windows2020 in "Fran Sans – font inspired by San Francisco light rail displays"

windows2020 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 01:25:48 +0000

That was my first thought as well. I've spent time on those cars on the Coast Line. They used to indicate the next stop, but it broke at some point. I don't ride much anymore. I'm not surprised what's pictured is NJ TRANSIT, the fallback. Would be nice to have faster trains someday. Until then, crack a beer and enjoy the ride.

New comment by windows2020 in "The World Trade Center under construction through photos, 1966-1979"

windows2020 — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 18:48:07 +0000

The Twin Towers 2 concept, which is mostly the originals with a few additional floors, would have been a more fitting replacement.

New comment by windows2020 in "Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account"

windows2020 — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 01:12:12 +0000

Not sure Microsoft realizes the damage they're doing to the Windows brand. My first experience with Windows 11 was figuring out some dumb workaround to use a local account.

When I think back to Windows 7, the good feeling isn't nostalgia. It was the last user-focused Windows.

Maybe someone will develop a new user-focused OS that's somehow compatible with Windows programs. Or better yet, maybe Microsoft will realize very important parts of Windows are going downhill and remember what made Windows great.

New comment by windows2020 in "Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP"

windows2020 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 17:56:20 +0000

Back to the old Thunderbird days I guess.

New comment by windows2020 in "Microsoft doubles down on small modular reactors and fusion energy"

windows2020 — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 23:55:42 +0000

Perhaps the bottleneck is public perception after the accident at Three Mile Island, and then everyone wasting time on alternate (insufficient) renewables. But now it's not about migrating from dirty to clean energy (which nuclear is), it's we need more power and it's time to get serious. Welcome back, nuclear. Microsoft entering an agreement with Three Mile Island nicely concludes a period in energy history. The next one should be most exciting.

New comment by windows2020 in "Vibe coding creates a bus factor of zero"

windows2020 — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:23:30 +0000

The difference is this isn't some legacy system that still exists a decade later. It's brand new with the tag still on. And it wasn't designed by a conscious being but by probability.

I've seen from beautiful to crazy legacy systems in various domains. But when I encounter something off, there appears to always be a story. Not so much with LLMs.

It got hit by a bus before it was born.

New comment by windows2020 in "Vibe coding creates a bus factor of zero"

windows2020 — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:12:59 +0000

A team unfamiliar with a code base demoed asking questions to an LLM about it. The answers genuinely excited some. But anyone who had spent a short time in the code base knew the answers were wrong. Oh well.

New comment by windows2020 in "TODOs Aren't for Doing"

windows2020 — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 18:32:58 +0000

The most frustrating thing to find is a TODO for a half baked thought about some inconsequential logic. Delete!