Yes this is always how it's been, especially if you're a front end developer. Changing designs every few months just for the hell of it is what designers do.
Seriously. Hacker News is so adamant on Linux it's almost comical. I mean, I get it... this is a site for developers. But I'm a developer and MacOS is great for writing software, the hardware is better than everything else on the market by far, and I don't have to mess around with my computer just to get certain drivers or whatever to work.
I spent $1000 on a Macbook Air, it instantly works with zero headache, has way more app support than Linux, is super fast, and so on.
If I want to play games, I bought the cheapest gaming laptop from Best Buy for like $500 a few years ago and only use that computer to play games.
Oh great, another one of these dumb posts about how social media is so terrible and RSS, blogs, and HTML are so awesome. I'm getting sick of Hacker News people upvoting stuff like this all the time since it's just the same damn idea presented over and over again. Perhaps this site has grown too large and is attracting the Reddit hive mind crowd.
while i agree with you; I also think that sound ideas are sound regardless. i don't think the negative comments are helpful at all. If people wanted new information, go read nature, science, cell. There's plenty of journals. HN is not for new information, it is for interesting information which allows refactored info imo.
> Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize.
One of my computer science professors from MIT has installed a smart home. I was over for a dinner and he told me a story about how he hit a third-party API rate limit on opening his garage door. Apparently, these things aren't self-hosted for the most part.
I have a pretty deep "smart home" setup and it's all run locally from a laptop in my closet with Home Assistant OS. I have run into 0 limitations. All my devices are kept on their own dedicated Zigbee mesh and/or network separate from my LAN. Only way to communicate in or out is via Tailscale. It's incredibly easy to get started too.
That’s a bit of evergreen topic. “stop bloating web with js” comes up fairly often and there are those people who think they found a solution and everyone should start using whatever they imagine is “best for everyone”.
In my opinion most of those people struggle with whatever they encountered in ecosystem and just want to find a way that fits them - while also trying to make others do the same.
*“You didn’t want to make things perfect. You just hated things the way they are.”*
Patternmaking for Menswear wad immensly helpful for teaching me how to create my own sewing patterns. But like anyone on HN, I draw my patterns with software I made.
fair. I used to think that too, but I find at least for golang, the sota models write tests way faster than I would be able to. tdd is actually really possible with ai imo. except of course you get the scaffolding implementation (I haven't figured out a way to get models to write tests in a way that ensures the tests actually do something useful without an implementation).
Your final sentence is interesting. I'm not a strict doctrine adherent, but in TDD, don't you write some minimal test, then implement the system to pass the test?
yes, but I find it hard to constrain it to a minimal implementation. what usually happens is it writes some tests, then an implementation, and then according to the thinking, makes some modification. it works with a relatively precise prompt, but starts to go a bit off the rails when you say things in broad terms ("write tests to ensure concurrency works, and the implementation to ensure said tests are correct")
