krisrm

> On a personal level I feel the fastest way to feel unhappy is to worry too much about whether I am happy

These are wise words that I needed to hear after a hard day and feeling like I've always been getting the short end of the stick lately. Thank you for writing them.

That is a fantastic and highly amusing speech, thank you for linking it.

Somewhat orthogonal to your point, but it is interesting to me how easily some will dismiss perspectives or ideas by referring to them pejoratively as "western".

Seems like that would quickly turn into a game of reverse engineering shitty KPIs, would it not?

Yeah, you're quite right; nothing new was said here. But, I think there is sometimes value in saying things again, or differently.

Hmm, I found it uplifting. I'm not in the startup space, but I feel like I have been struggling with prioritization, without really understanding what I was struggling with. In my case, the constant tugging from one operational crisis to another has made it difficult to focus on long-term goals, and I need to learn to let others fight their own fires from time to time so I can prioritize tasks I know will have an out-sized effect later. Guess it's just a matter of perspective!

It's not about being unique, or what you can/can't do. You certainly can mock a front end with a ssr app, but it gets messy when you are building a rich client app and need to start sharing state back and forth.

I always thought of the benefits of SPAs more as a separation-of-concerns thing. You can pretty effectively build a functional front-end web application and mock a set of back-end REST apis, while another team builds out a the back-end. There are absolutely tradeoffs, and being a good software engineer is about understanding where and when those tradeoffs apply.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but this seems like a pretty unlikely threat vector.

Yeah whenever these SPA-slamming posts come up, I just try to imagine carpenters posting about why they switched to hammers from screwdrivers. They're just different tools that excel at solving different problems.

I don't have anything to contribute or collaborate on, but just wanted to thank OP for the excellent idea, this looks like it really hit upon a community need.

I'm sincerely hoping that whoever wrote this is a hockey fan.

(for those who aren't, Connor McDavid is arguably the best hockey player alive today)

I don't really agree with the tone of your comment, and why would you cite a section of the article where the author was talking about a front-end testing framework?

Protect? Or use them as tokens in international tit-for-tat diplomacy?

Seems a little ironic to call out a piece of software whose literal job it is to connect to the internet for... Connecting to the internet.

Tongue in cheek aside, I don't know much about Brave - is there some specific reason that it needs an always-on server to call home to?