patanegra

I guess, they have some form of harness engineering optimized for Claude + they likely use more advanced models than those available to us.

And yes, they likely accept that not every line of code is clean.

But honestly (and unfortunately), average source code is nothing stellar either. I do SW dev for 30 years. And most projects I have seen were somewhat ugly.

Interesting, that none of those things have been an issue in the 90s. At least in my country. You just didn't have to think about this, because except gays (who were accepted by young, and frowned up by old), there were no discussion about any of that.

Someone made this into an issue, and politics. And things have got much worse, during all this.

Yeah, because they built it. If people were using Linux everywhere, the situation would be different.

One company's margin, is other company's opportunity.

Well, 'theft' is more of an artistic licence.

It's a breach of intellectual property rights owner.

LOL. Does intellectual property exist, or not?

If yes, then it can be stolen.

If no, then it is fine to take any source code, any photo, any information, and do whatever I want with it, right?

Pirating of course exists. You might rebrand it, but hardly as hero-, more like theft-. Theftbay would sound good to me.

Is it because of moderation or because people come here to learn about STEM & tech?

You could have HN for politics, or art and philosophy.

This is exactly how I don't want to build my apps.

As much logic on the backend as possible makes it easier to prevent concurrent changes, support multiple frontends, debug while having the whole env under control etc.

This week, I learned that our website's homepage has 40 megabytes. Another frontend maximalism. :/

We were building decent apps long before React.

Even pre-web. I remember, how quickly I could create Delphi desktop app with drag & drop UI builder more than 2 decades ago. If we speak about generic ERP, you could make dozens of screens in a day.

You just split your app to layers.

That might be for example:

1. Just UI;

2. UI logic (validations, preloading selects...);

3. Transformation of data between data model and UI model

All of the things above lived on users' computers.

All of the things below were on servers.

1. API gateway (terrible things like SOAP, XML-RPC or completely proprietary formats);

2. Business logic;

3. Database

No, you should tie the squatter, drive him to the middle of wilderness, and leave him there. So he will no longer have such bad ideas.

If your view was true, we would have a super-successful middle class here in Europe. We don't, quite the contrary. The UK used to be on par with the USA. Now, it's stagnant since 2008. Other countries are falling behind too.

Because power of labor to negotiate is a zero-sum game that doesn't create anything. The only sustainable way to lift anyone's living standard is through improving prosperity.

And guess what. The USA gives much better opportunities for motivated people to build themselves.

It depends on how you measure it. A kid from independent school with AAA is going to be worse than a state school AAA kid. But state school AAA kid might be 3-A* kid in independent school and might do better.

For smarter. My narrative is more prepared, used to working harder. And also, it's self-selection. If you are not made for that type of education, you are going to leave.

No matter if universities select for potential, or operating near it. Both would be nice. Now, it is increasingly also how they will shape the society if they accept student A instead of student B. And they want to shape society in a way that discriminates against certain kids for who their parents are.

Well, yes. Everyone needs to try harder.

In China, they speak about 996 (working 9am to 9pm 6 days a week; and since we speak about education, Chinese kids often learn from 7am up to 9pm, and when they are getting ready for University, they pull 12–14 hours a day consistently), in Europe, we speak about working only 4 days a week, and whether it is bad for kids to have homeworks.

We all, in Europe, should speak about working a bit harder. Especially those, who are not happy with where they are.

Well, when you as a parent, basically get your 9-year-old, work as many hours per year, as a full-time employed adult, so your child reaches its full potential, you expect, that this possibility will continue in all levels of education.

Anyway. If Oxford is going to pass on those kids, who are often multiple years ahead of the average, some other university will accept them. And then, this university will likely beat Oxford in ratings.