jwhiles

I won't be applying, due to my lack of a swedish work permit - but I love to see Vim or Emacs listed as a hard requirement in a job advert.

These obviously are’t planned obsolescence though.

Flexgate is a manufacturing error, that they handled in a consumer hostile way

Batterygate, was an arguably misguided way to support outdated models - prioritising one goal (battery life) over another (speed)

The iPod thing I’ll admit I know nothing about.

It sounds like, for you, planned obsolescence is defined as any instance where a product isn’t manufactured perfectly or degardes over time, regardless of whether it was planned. For me, planned obsolescence should contain at least a hint of planning.

Your interpretation of my comment, though I guess intended as a joke, can only really mean two things:

1. You are unaware of DHH’s more recent favoured topics 2. You don’t think there is a problem with DHH’s opinions

Either is fine, I don’t really care.

The issue for me is that Cloudflare’s PR team obviously are aware what DHH writes about. And they’re sponsoring his project anyway. Cloudflare knows that this is repellant to a lot of people, that some of us will begin removing them from our stacks in response. But they don’t care, because they think it’s more valuable to cosy up to a bunch of mid life crises who’ve spent too much time on twitter.

DHH very keen to demonstrate to all Londoners that he’s not been to London

edit: and also is a tool

hmm. Increasingly it feels like I shouldn't be using cloudflare.

We can add hacker news commenters to the list of people who wouldn’t get Pierre Menard

Thanks for the response, and apologies for misrepresenting your results somewhat! I'm probably not going to change the title since I am at heart and polemicist and a sloppy thinker, but I'll update the article to call out this misrepresentation.

That said, I think that what I wrote more or less encompasses three of the factors you call out as being likely to contribute: "High developer familiarity with reposito- ries", "Large and complex repositories", and "Implicit repository context".

I thought more about experimenting on myself, and while I hope to do it - I think it will be very hard to create a controlled enviornment whilst also responding to the demands the job puts on me. I also don't have the luxury of a list of well scoped tasks that could feasibly be completed in a few hours.

It's because we won't build things. Writing from a part of zone-2 London which is full of two story detached and terraced houses.

It's not about being right, it's about appearing to be right

I was briefly terrified this was Lambda in the AWS sense

In case anyone isn't familiar with remix, bloomingkales seemingly has no familiarity with the framework. Obviously it's not been created as a conspiracy to sell training courses. The idea is ludicrous.

It's quite a nice framework. It's easy to learn, straightforward, the people in their discord are very helpful. It has the backing of a large company (shopify) who are using it extensively.

It is, I'll say again, obviously not a conspiracy to sell training courses.

The title made me think this was about a 'negative 40B pivot', when it actually means an 'approximately 40B pivot'.

Does hacker news not support Tildes or what?