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mmkos commented on Googler... ex-Googler nerdy.dev/ex-googler... · Posted by u/namukang

windward · 5 months ago

That is potentially the least convincing website I've ever seen. I feel like I'm being sold a timeshare.

mmkos · 5 months ago

I had the same feeling. The underlying message has merit, but the format felt very similar to a lot of the get-rich-quick landing pages. I had to edit some of the CSS to get through the page at all.

mmkos commented on Googler... ex-Googler nerdy.dev/ex-googler... · Posted by u/namukang

codr7 · 5 months ago

I would recommend actually learning something valuable rather than wasting energy on AI and becoming dumber in the process.

mmkos · 5 months ago

It's not wasting energy if it genuinely helps you build products much more efficiently. Regardless of our feelings towards it, it is here and it's making a difference. You can either move with the times or be left behind.

mmkos commented on Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button nuejs.org/blog/large-scal... · Posted by u/tipiirai

tipiirai · 5 months ago

Author here: It’s true—Nue’s view layer is untyped. That’s by design. React’s ecosystem has devs slapping TypeScript on everything—even CSS—which is overkill. Nue flips it: presentation stays clean and semantic, web standards do the heavy lifting, and real static typing (like Rust or Go) shines in business logic where it counts. Thoughts on this?

mmkos · 5 months ago

I honestly can't see what's wrong with using TypeScript anywhere in place of JavaScript. Unless you're making a simple script or a throwaway prototype, then you're pretty much always better off with it. It's invaluable during development and it's compiled away at build time.

mmkos commented on 50 Years of Travel Tips kk.org/thetechnium/50-yea... · Posted by u/thm

mmkos · 6 months ago

Here are mine - go and do something that excites you, whatever it is. Also, be respectful of the local culture and have common sense, et voila.

Whatever you do...

  > Crash a wedding. You are not a nuisance; you are the celebrity guest!

I stopped reading here. PLEASE don't do this. It's extremely disrespectful.

mmkos commented on Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things · Posted by u/zachlatta

jll29 · 8 months ago

Reading some of these books recommended here, perhaps the most shocking thing is that so much is due to randomness: an arbitrary person does something small that turns out to be on the critical path, and without it the big thing would not get completed.

I like the kind of books recommended here, but please be aware of survivor's bias (there not many books about failures! Any great recommendations? "How we could NOT get back to the moon again", "Recall: Toyota hits the breaks", "Last fag: how big tobacco lost against a Minneapolis law firm" ;-) and the fact that the winner gets to write the history. For example, next month, Bill Gates new memoir "Source Code" will come out, the first of three planned autobiographical books, and I doubt he will share with us how he strongarmed PC manufacturers into shipping Windows pre-installed in order to get the OS monopoly and other important events.

mmkos · 8 months ago

That's my problem with a lot of the literature on building successful businesses. They all seem to be offering a white glove path and don't talk about all the tactics ranging from shady to downright illegal that helped many of the biggest companies today to be where they are now.

mmkos commented on Web Browser Engineering (2021) browser.engineering/index... · Posted by u/MrVandemar

mmkos · a year ago

With all due respect, this feels better suited as a journal entry rather than a comment on a HN thread.

mmkos commented on Show HN: Turn any website into a knowledge base for LLMs embedding.io/... · Posted by u/tompec

is_true · a year ago

Do you plan on doing revenue sharing with the site owners?

mmkos · a year ago

Do OpenAI and all the other LLM behemoths?

mmkos commented on Rethinking Text Resizing on Web medium.com/airbnb-enginee... · Posted by u/GavCo

llimos · a year ago

> extremely impossible

seriously?

mmkos · a year ago

Nitpicky, but I admit I stopped there for a second too.. like how did it get past even a half assed editorial review

mmkos commented on Google Workers Protest Cloud Contract with Israel's Government tech.slashdot.org/story/2... · Posted by u/zoobab

GiorgioG · a year ago

Google workers need to be reminded they work for a company who's mission is to make investors money.

mmkos · a year ago

And I guess tech companies need to be reminded that human lives are more valuable than investors money.

mmkos commented on EU's new tech laws are working – small browsers gain market share forth.news/threads/66161a... · Posted by u/jaredwiener

0xfedbee · a year ago

What a hypocrisy. At one hand they encourage free market, and on the other they do shit like this. This rent-seeking-from-US-corpos model isn't gonna work long for EU. Camel's back will be broken and everyone will regret, including this stupid policy makers.

mmkos · a year ago

Free markets don't work. Corporations absolutely will abuse their position and power to establish monopolies wherever they can, blocking any new entrants to the market. I wonder how we (europeans) would ever regret regulation to stifle monopolistic behaviours from American behemoths.