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Comment · 2 months ago
You managed to blame feminists and immigrants in one paragraph, impressive. I'm sorry to hear about your experiences tho.
Comment · 3 months ago
Yeah it really flips things upside down when a journalist has so much access to info that they can essentially pick their own story from the data.

Maybe they can't credibly fudge the numbers, but they can find enough data to agenda-set pretty much anything.

Comment · 9 months ago
I suspect Newton is rolling in his grave at your words. Standing on the shoulders of giants also means respecting the giants. That means dedicating time to learning what they have to teach. Not treating them as a black box with no credit or consent, in the name of your own "glory".
Comment · 9 months ago
Maybe that's because you're not using your time well in the first place
Comment · 1 year ago
To be fair browsers/CSS have been solving a lot of use cases you'd normally turn to js for, lately. We should continue escalating this effort.
Comment · 1 year ago
I fear this is an analogy for what's happening with LLMs and context engineering.
Comment · 1 year ago
I find this a bit like saying that we can't understand East of Eden because Steinbeck is dead.
Comment · 1 year ago
Seems like more of a subtextual/accidental ability than an emergent ability.
Comment · 1 year ago
Exactly. If I'm going to be solving bugs, I'd rather they be my own.
Comment · 1 year ago
Building a basic static html landing page is ridiculously easy though. What js is even needed? If it's just an html file and maybe a stylesheet of course it's easy to host. You can apply 20 lines of css and have a decent looking page.

These aren't hard problems.

Comment · 1 year ago
There's a balance. Not every team is made up of infallible devs, even at decent companies. Human nature is never full-trust.

I've known talented devs who are great people who still need more oversight than you describe. Usually they are ~5 years off from being full-trust, yet still valuable team members. Yes they benefit from daily standups.

Comment · 1 year ago
Maybe that other dev has a unique ability you should reward. Sound awesome. Focus on that.
Comment · 1 year ago
Try "Way of Being" by James Bridle.
Comment · 1 year ago
At some points, new improvement and occasionally ingenuity need to find a healthy way back into the workflow. Moreso early on, but consistently over time as well.

If we just create copies of copies forever, products degrade slowly over time. This is a problem in a few different spheres, to put it lightly.

The main rule is a good one, but the article overfocuses on it.

Comment · 1 year ago
Yeah, that commenter wildly misunderstands what "progressive" means. Like full on got the definition of the word backwards.

Is this common? People think "progressive" means "complete government control"?

Progressives support regulations to prevent both public and private entities from becoming too powerful. It's not like they want to give the government authoritarian control lol.

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