MattyMc

Joined 13 years ago

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Aug 9
Professional math nerd, aspiring computer nerd. I love making things that 'I' want, in the hopes that other people will find value in them too.

Currently, I'm working to get up to 50 karma on StackOverflow so I can comment on posts! :)

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Comment · 1 month ago
He clarified today, saying he would build any new app today in Rails. Should that app become so popular that it would benefit from Rust, he would rewrite it in Rust.
Comment · 4 months ago
> Anyone who doesn't understand this is an idiot imo

I don’t think that’s true. Avoiding this mistake requires knowing that an ultrasound may not detect calcification. For a patient reading their own report, I don’t think that’s intuitive. I would expect most people to read “no calcifications” and assume that their joint has no calcifications.

Comment · 1 year ago
What’s the difference between this repo (4 stars) and the original repo it’s forked from (2.2k stars)?
Comment · 1 year ago
> #4: They want to build trust

For my business (micro-SaaS EdTech), the value of building trust with my customers cannot be understated. Further, I don’t believe i can effectively build trust with my customers in the way the author describes; without meetings.

Comment · 1 year ago
> The Supreme Court of the United States has recently made decisions signaling a shift in how courts will approach DEI.

Does anyone know what decisions he's referring to?

Comment · 2 years ago
“Free”… for non-commercial use.

Is it ethical to say a software is now free for only a learning license?

Comment · 2 years ago
It takes a bit of digging to find the definition of the index they’re using.

From their GitHub page: “The data in this repository are the percentage change in seasonally-adjusted job postings since February 1, 2020, using a seven-day trailing average.”

Comment · 2 years ago
As a Canadian active on social media, I’ll also add that the quality of news I consume and am exposed to has dramatically increased.
Comment · 2 years ago
user<->facebook<->otheruser is the exact OPPOSITE of end-to-end. There’s literally a middleman who can read your messages.

Theyre sooooo dishonest.

Comment · 2 years ago
Nearly all the first comments express that the justification to include Rubocop with a default rule set in Rails 8 contradicts DHH's criticism of languages such as Go which have a built-in linter, therefore dictating style rules to programmers. DHH criticizes Go's approach as totalitarian while shipping Rubocop with Basecamp's rule set.

Rubocop is a linter (etc) whose rule set can be easily customized and to include it in Rails wouldn't be possible without _some_ default set of rules. DHH addresses this apparent contradiction directly, too: "Not such that I, or anyone, can mandate what style your codebase ought to be written in, but such that you can find and enforce your own." I'm reading: A linter/formatter will be included in Rails 8 with a smart default rule set, and it can be easily customized. I don't see any contradiction.

I'm highly aligned with this decision as it could help alleviate a recurring pain point at our tiny company: managing code formatters and linters in our IDE (Solargraph, Rubocop, Ruby LSP, etc). Further, I'd expect excellent documentation on how we can customize the rules to best suit our purposes, too.

Comment · 2 years ago
“… the only technology we should be using to create web UI is JavaScript.”

Well, the Rage team certainly is opinionated!

Comment · 2 years ago
I think you're referring to Canada's Online News Act, which would require companies to pay news outlets for the content they share or repurpose. I'm a Canadian familiar with this story, and Google's opposition to it.

It surprise me if Google would limit Bard in Canada because of the Online News Act. Wouldn't the importance of driving adoption of Bard be much larger than the impact of having to remove Canadian news?

Comment · 3 years ago
Pricing page: “(actually) simple pricing”.

Also: More than 5000 contacts, “CONTACT US”.

Comment · 3 years ago
Wow, OP is on fire. Sounds like another lawsuit could be coming their way.

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