- jwoq9118 parentI love this. The cognitive of understanding what this code does is super low, it solves the problem, presents no glaring performance issues, and isn’t trying to be cute.
- I am writing this from a coffee shop where myself and others have gone well over 4 hours working. The business owners don’t care so long as you make purchases and don’t sit at a 10 person table for just yourself.
I see people get a morning coffee, get lunch and a drink, and then maybe something on their way out. It’s not a problem.
- After reading, I agree with im3w1l. The author did not do this subject justice. Its too short, makes some sweeping generalizations about the evolution of human culture, and never really dives deep into answer the “How” that it calls out in its title. Great title, mediocre article.
I also think the suggestion that content creators, as in all of them (the author specifically calls out Charlie Damelio), don’t view their fans as anything more than a number is interesting. He calls out a content creator he perhaps views as part of the problem but fails to acknowledge the same extends to literally everyone you’ve ever heard of online that you follow but don’t know in real life, including people im sure the author would defend as being “really good guys”.
- > The biggest problem is that we have no idea how to value most of the work people do. I mean, we might know that what a developer should get paid for a year’s work, but how much is that work worth? The majority of the work done in modern corporations is incredibly hard to value, which is partially why companies are so inefficient and make so many bad decisions.
> That brings up an even bigger problem - companies today hire workers to make money from their labor. In other words, they generate profit because they pay their employees less than they’re worth. If everyone could trade their labor for exactly the amount of money it was worth, the corporations that employ them would have a much harder time making money.
Anyone else see an issue with this comment? We don’t know how to value the work of a corporate employee but we’re simultaneously all being paid less than we’re worth.
I like this article but I do feel the author leans too much into theory and what I hope is hyperbole. What I do love though is the admission at the end that we’re in a tough spot with modern capitalism and there’s no easy way to fix things by some “just do xyz” solution.
- Meta’s open source contributions stand on their own as great regardless of their obviously shady social media management and privacy tactics. The former are feats of software engineering, the later have a lot to do with things far beyond problems like handing data at scale, refreshing feeds fast, ensuring atomic updates to user profiles, etc.
Basically I don’t think their privacy nightmare stuff detracts from what the brain trust of engineers over there have been doing in the open source world.
- Recently introduced a friend to Desiring God. Changed their whole perspective on Christianity. Took things back to basics for them, here’s what Jesus actually said, here’s what the Bible actually teaches, no sensationalism, let’s calm down and dive deep.
Here are some favorites of mine, bookmarked and ready to reread whenever I feel the urge.
http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/how-to-be-spiritually-mi...
http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/what-is-humility
http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/the-one-must-read-this-y...
- Omnivore. Saves a copy using web archive.
- Absolutely wonderful article that says things I have noticed and haven’t been able to properly explain to people. Many people weaponize science as a tool to defend their moral beliefs, arguing that anyone who disagrees with them is “literally against the facts”. They fail to realize we’ve reached a stage where the only research studies seeing the light of day are those conforming to the popular opinion. Anything else is killed and discredited as nonsense, not based on truth, but based on emotion.
Reminds me of those days where every scientist told us cigarettes are totally safe. If you said otherwise you were an anti science fool, clearly an idiot. Look at us now. What a world we live in. Modern science is closer to religion than anyone would like to admit.
- Same. Still climbing out. It’s been a decade for me, but that’s counting college where I was working to keep my family okay alongside school. Been a full time software engineer since 2020, still wading through debt and helping my family stay afloat. Reading this thread has done some good for my soul.
- Agreed. If we're getting the point where you're saying "it's like writing your configuration in [insert Domain Specific Language Here]" then I'd prefer to simply use that language. I understand the point Pkl is making in that "configuration won't work across DSLs so here's one language for all of them" but I don't know that that's enough motivation for people to adopt it.
However, I haven't built anything cool like this so what do I know. I'm just procrastinating on the my personal project and browsing hacker news.
- This whole thread is classic overthinking. Advertising isn’t a binary good/bad morality thing. It is in many ways subjective. There have been times an ad helped me learn about something that solved a problem or need I have. There have been times where an ad was pushing something that I personally (subjectively) consider to be useless junk.
It depends. Ads aren’t inherently good or evil. Step back from dogma for a second.
- This is a tale as old as time observation, and its spot on. We’re not meant to be alone. Those who are find something else to replace human company, usually a pet, or obsessive hobby.
I know the film gets some hate, but Ouiser from Steel Magnolias is a classic example. She’s a curmudgeon, but she’s not alone. The women in that town embrace her for who she is and they do life together. Everyone needs someone.