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lunch commented on Show HN: Hibiki HTML – New frontend framework – no scaffolding, no Webpack playground.hibikihtml.com... · Posted by u/sawka

lunch · 4 years ago

> Hibiki [..] lets you create [..] frontend applications without JavaScript

Yet the website is a blank white page, without JavaScript.

lunch commented on It’s not still the early days of blockchain blog.mollywhite.net/its-n... · Posted by u/Liron

kelnos · 4 years ago

It's not, but blockchains don't magically fix that. And the "web3" stuff built so far is still pretty centralized and could include that same tracking if the incumbents so chose.

lunch · 4 years ago

Of course a blockchain doesn't magically fix anything, it's a distributed log. But a decentralized distributed log is a great building block for something that isn't owned by FAANG.

lunch commented on It’s not still the early days of blockchain blog.mollywhite.net/its-n... · Posted by u/Liron

xmprt · 4 years ago

No. But you don't need blockchain to solve that. Things like BitTorrent work perfectly fine without the needless blockchain element.

lunch · 4 years ago

BitTorrent is wonderful for sharing information, but it's not really a platform to build on. Something like Ethereum on the other hand is literally a decentralized computer that no single entity controls. The blockchain part enables this.

lunch commented on It’s not still the early days of blockchain blog.mollywhite.net/its-n... · Posted by u/Liron

xmprt · 4 years ago

I feel like even after zooming out and seeing the big picture, it's hard to imagine blockchain solving real world problems. Blockchains are good when there's a lack of trust and decentralization is absolutely necessary. There are very few problems that actually need a blockchain. Anything that has the government in the loop (like buying houses or property) is a non starter and anything that runs on centralized servers (like game NFTs) also doesn't make sense.

lunch · 4 years ago

> Blockchains are good when there's a lack of trust and decentralization is absolutely necessary. There are very few problems that actually need a blockchain.

How about the current status quo of the Internet? Do you think being mined, sold, and endlessly tracked is OK?

lunch commented on Show HN: Give the disappointment of an NFT-gift without having to buy one nftgift.info... · Posted by u/mevorah

lunch · 4 years ago

Another day, another negative-sentiment crypto post on HN. We get it.

I'm all for being creative but consider putting positive energy out into the world.

lunch commented on Every pricing page should have GIFs tdinh.notion.site/Every-p... · Posted by u/trungdq88

lunch · 4 years ago

Maybe first try rendering literally anything when javascript is disabled. Then worry about adding GIFs.

lunch commented on Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills (2020) news.ncsu.edu/2020/07/tec... · Posted by u/PretzelFisch

kodah · 4 years ago

As someone who didn't go to school, I struggle with doing algorithms and implementing data structures in front of someone. Outside of timeboxed interviews I negotiate them fairly well, but I'm almost always seeing something for the first time. Then again, for as long as I've been in software it's always been tailored for academics. This seems to be just fine and even championed as a good thing.

My reaction is to plan my exit from the industry whenever this job comes to an end. I'll end up going back to school in my thirties, despite being qualified, because of self-imposed constraints by this industry that have little if anything to do with the tasks I'll be given or planning day to day.

lunch · 4 years ago

Art school graduate here, and my only advice is to broaden your sights and keep trying (if you want to). I've interviewed with FAANG too many times to count and every time it's crashed and burned on the comp-sci quizzes. Fuck em, keep looking. You'll eventually find a team that doesn't demand solving riddles that aren't applicable to your day-to-day CRUD. Take these jobs and you'll quite possibly learn the skillsets, or meet enough people, to get into the Big Co's without the riddles. It worked for me.

I feel like I have PTSD from Google and Amazon interviews early in my career.

lunch commented on Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs you.com/search?q=you.com&... · Posted by u/richardsocher

jccalhoun · 4 years ago

I will give it credit for working on firefox with javascript turned off.

lunch · 4 years ago

I get a blank page in Firefox with JavaScript turned off :(

  Content Security Policy: The page’s settings blocked the loading of a resource at inline (“script-src”).
  Loading failed for the <script> with source “https://you.com/cdn-cgi/scripts/7d0fa10a/cloudflare-static/rocket-loader.min.js”.

lunch commented on Facebook Renames to Meta about.facebook.com/meta/... · Posted by u/TiredOfLife

lunch · 4 years ago

Welp, tried atleast 7 times to watch this without a Facebook account. Made it about 2 minutes each time before being redirected to a login page.