- Sure, but without unlimited resources, you need to have priorities, and everything has a ‘good enough’ state. All of this stuff lies on an Eisenhower chart and we tend to think our concerns fall into the important/urgent quadrant, but in the grand scheme of things, they almost never do.
- > Yet if I spent one hour making my app one second faster for my million users, I can save 277 user hour per year. But since user hours are an externality, such optimization never gets done.
Wait times don’t accumulate. Depending on the software, to each individual user, that one second will probably make very little difference. Developers often overestimate the effect of performance optimization on user experience because it’s the aspect of user experience optimization their expertise most readily addresses. The company, generally, will have a much better ROI implementing well-designed features and having you squash bugs
- “One Headline Copywriting Strategy Increases Clicks. This is How It Works…”
There seemed to be an era where clickbait headlines in major media were seen as passé… but they’ve seemingly made a comeback over the past couple years.
- It’s tragic that having a language as flexible and unopinionated as Perl is admittedly terrible for novice programmers because Learning Perl is easily one of the greatest introductory programming books.
- Yeah I’d have made a more deliberate choice if it took up more of my dev time. I haven’t looked at Uno really though.
- Looks neat!
- I’m sure it would be a goto if I made gui apps more regularly, because it’s clearly the more robust solution. So far wxglade is great for a drag-and-drop designer and the code is just enough closer to the regular Python way of doing things that it’s one less thing to learn.
- This looks like it would be perfect for the internal user that really just needs to run a shell script with options who’s in the “technical enough to follow instructions faithfully, not technical enough to comfortably/reliably use the command line” demographic.
- After years of admonition discouraging me, I’m using Python for a Windows GUI app over my usual C#/MAUI. I’m much more familiar with Python and the whole VS ecosystem is just so heavy for lightweight tasks. I started with tkinter but found it super clunky for interactions I needed heavily, like on field change, but learning QT seemed like more of a lift than I was interested in. (Maybe a skill issue on both fronts?) Grabbed wxglade and drag-and-dropped an interface with wxpython that only has one external dependency installable with pip, is way more convenient than writing xaml by hand, and ergonomically feels pretty pythonic compared to QT. Glad to see more work going into the windows runtime because I’ll probably be leaning on it more.
- SWEs that don’t understand the strengths and limitations of their tools allowing them to choose the right one for the job won’t be software developers much longer, but they definitely won’t be plumbers. Maybe cycling through the gig platforms or working entry-level retail. Soft, arrogant, maladroit white collar workers make hilariously pathetic trade apprentices.
- Perl time
- Works great if you’re using a very common language. I wasted more time than I care to admit trying this with a pascal code base.
- If you’re writing simple code, it’s often a one-shot. With medium-complexity code, it gets the first 90% done in a snap. Easily faster than I could ever do it. The problem is that 90% is never the part that sucks up a bunch of time— it’s the final 10%, and in many cases for me, it’s been more hindrance than help. If I’d just taken the driver’s wheel, making heavy use of autocomplete, I’d have done better and with less frustration. Having to debug code I didn’t write that’s an integral part of what I’m building is an annoying context switch for anything non-trivial.
- Well that turnaround is pretty confidence-inspiring.
- I’ve provided citations. You were commenting in a thread that branched off of my comment. I got my criticism from the Mozilla article, and most of my citations were linked to in the Mozilla article. I’d say you should actually read the subsection on Tesla, but you clearly can’t accept reality and have some weird Tesla obsession. Get help.
- Weird thing from the pretty ho-hum super cards privacy policy:
> The Service Provider will retain User Provided data for as long as you use the Application and for a reasonable time thereafter. If you'd like them to delete User Provided Data that you have provided via the Application, please contact them at blub@blob.com and they will respond in a reasonable time.
That looks like a placeholder address to me? Not exactly confidence inspiring if so…
- lol, cringe. Great way to protect your ego when someone is serially pointing out how baseless your glib snapbacks are. I use em dashes because I learned to write at a competent university, instead of, say, Breaking Bad. In fact, it played a large role in early LLM development, so if they ever used student writing in their data sets, I might be a tiny part of the reason these models use so many em dashed to begin with. Hell, I don’t even use grammarly anymore. And I made this alt when I switched from dev to design, before the shitty job market switched me from design to manufacturing. And exactly who would I be “botting for?” The only person in this thread that started championing a particular company is you. The thread itself started with me bemoaning data collection among the auto industry, and mentioned that Tesla is the least bad at even if they’re still bad. So… am I botting for “big bicycle?” Part of the large Schwinn-backed anti-car virtual astroturfing brigade? Maybe an extremely aggressive public transit advocacy group? Exactly who cares enough about people stanning Tesla to point some robot propaganda machination at it? And since you were enough of a creep to go through my comment history looking for excuses to ignore what I was saying rather than actually engage with it, did you see ANY other indication that was a theme? Lol. So keep trying to scrounge up some cope, “bitch.”
- Go read the dictionary entry for spying. You can’t just make up definitions for words.
- > I point out tesla specifically because they had headlines about sharing camera feeds as memes.
Your baseless assumptions are your own fault.
I gave citations for your specific questions. There’s multiple articles about the odious things that happened that you clearly have no interest in acknowledging. I’m not your research assistant. Go read them. You’re clearly more interested in defending Tesla than understanding people’s complaints. Cope? Shill? I’ll never know, and I’ll definitely never care.
Same way I reckon. Both are bad.
> Funny how everyone shits on Nvidia's monopoly when we've got Google walking around after winning a monumental antitrust case regarding their Android/Chrome/Google information monopoly.
... are you implying people around here don't give google flak for monopolistic business practices? That doesn't square with my experience, here.