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readerbaza commented on Software engineers hate code   dancowell.com/software-en... · Posted by u/dfcowell
JohnFen · 2 years ago
> This is the best-kept secret of the software engineering profession: engineers hate code. Especially code written by other people. It's why they love working on greenfield projects so much. No code, no maintenance, no headaches!

Except that I've met lots of engineers who were the opposite. They hate greenfield projects and prefer maintaining existing code. I noticed this broad division of personality early in my career. And it's a great thing -- both sorts of engineers are critical to a successful project.

readerbaza · 2 years ago
Those who like greenfields only are probably those "upgraded" to PMs and the reason is they turn green into brown _very_ quickly.
readerbaza commented on The damaging results of mandated return to office   entrepreneur.com/growing-... · Posted by u/MBCook
michaelcampbell · 2 years ago
I'm going through this. Was hired at 1/month in-office, and now they're saying 4x/month. My feel about this is that this is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist, the solution doesn't work, and I'm having to pay for it.

We had an all-hands meeting recently. The message was essentially, "We have heard your feedback that most of you don't like this, but WE like it, so it's staying."

readerbaza · 2 years ago
should have not showed up when asked 1/month.

...and they say the slippery slope is a fallacy

readerbaza commented on Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs   brave.com/vertical-tabs/... · Posted by u/czottmann
hsjqllzlfkf · 3 years ago
Firefox has tree style tabs, and no crypto. Win win
readerbaza · 3 years ago
Reason I dropped chrome around 2011/2012, they removed the options to have tabs laid vertically as not enough users used it (it was an hidden option and badly implemented).

Tree style tabs is the main reason I've used firefox since.

Tabs are really a bad design, maybe made some sense with 4:3 monitors but text was horizontal back then too.

readerbaza commented on A blocky based CAD program   vkgames82.itch.io/block-c... · Posted by u/blobmty
ranting-moth · 3 years ago
Yes, FreeCAD badly needs a UI/UX overhaul.

But even then, any advanced CAD software is not the type of soft software that you can open and "figure out".

readerbaza · 3 years ago
FreeCAD is a textbook example of an UI/UX "designed" by programmers. Nothing works as expected. The underlying programming model leaks out way too much. The fact that it's buggy doesn't help. And critical functionality (assemblies?) is not supported by the core team.

I'm learning it because on linux desktop there's not much else but it's a joke for professionals.

readerbaza commented on Telemetry in Front-End Tools   telemetry.timseverien.com... · Posted by u/gravitate
JohnFen · 3 years ago
Hopefully, this sort of thing can at least be stopped by very restrictive outbound firewall rules, but it's getting to the point where you have to seriously consider only using dev tools on air-gapped machines anymore.
readerbaza · 3 years ago
This is the only way. Just deny by default.

I never liked Postman and that's how I mostly stopped using it. Completely stops working on analytics request denial and then starts sending reports to Sentry (but even if you allow those, they don't learn, I've tried)

readerbaza commented on $39 Cooler Master case turns your old Framework Laptop parts into a tiny PC   theverge.com/2023/3/23/23... · Posted by u/e2e4
readerbaza · 3 years ago
Why must it be an "old" laptop? Get a new board and use it like a portable desktop.

I bet many people don't ever use those PCs but in 2 places (home, work)

readerbaza commented on Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2023?    · Posted by u/csomar
Macha · 3 years ago
They come #1 in Norway and their next best showing is #3 in China, but plenty of large markets where they're way down the list (e.g. #49 in Spain, #40 in germany did not make rankings in Italy, Brazil, India).

https://www.drive.com.au/news/the-best-selling-cars-around-t...

readerbaza · 3 years ago
Italy historical top 3 is always cheap city cars. Usually Fiat Panda which costs ~15k€ nowadays (used to be much less).

A 50K€ base model car as top 1 is a pipe dream. It'll happen when people can't buy cars anymore and all remains is the rich and robotaxis.

readerbaza commented on January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are open to all   web.law.duke.edu/cspd/pub... · Posted by u/CharlesW
choeger · 3 years ago
I came to the conviction that digital artworks, any form of digital property, really, needs a public clearinghouse.

You simply shouldn't be allowed to sell any digital license for a product you didn't register at that clearinghouse before. The task of that clearinghouse would be to provide the customer with the bought content in case of dispute or any other problems. So if, e.g, Amazon goes out of business, all my books would be available for me to download from said clearinghouse because I own the license. Same for steam games or Disney videos.

Many (but not all) of the problems with DRM or copyrighted works would vanish if we established this legal requirement.

readerbaza · 3 years ago
Nowadays digital stores sell you the privilege to get access to said content, you own shit.

Making virtually unlimited profit on a limited initial amount of time, labour, costs is what's evil here. "X number of years" argument will never solve it (the shorter the worst the hype push will get).

Should be capped by a function of said time, labour invested plus costs and allowed profit adjusted for inflation.

I don't care how much one thinks he deserves to milk such work/invention. Look at what Nikola Tesla gave us and what he got in return.

readerbaza commented on Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas   obsidian.md/canvas... · Posted by u/ericax
kepano · 3 years ago
Obsidian Canvas uses a new JSON-based file format that we have open-sourced under MIT license. You can see the spec here:

https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-api/blob/master/canva...

Just like all other files in Obsidian, canvas files are your own and local to your device. You're still linking to your own Markdown files which are just as future-proof as ever.

We decided to create the .canvas format because there wasn't any pre-existing canvas-type format we could find that fit our priorities around longevity, readability, interoperability and extensibility.

The .canvas format is designed to be as easy to parse as possible. We've already seen a few plugins take advantage of it, and we hope that more tools will become available that can use the .canvas format.

readerbaza · 3 years ago
Why every electron app feels the need to reinvent the window border/title?

Does this look OK? https://i.postimg.cc/4ymyHWxF/window-border.png

readerbaza commented on Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative   itcommunity.stanford.edu/... · Posted by u/ryzvonusef
seydor · 3 years ago
Who do i contact to add a few thousand terms to the list? It's kind of urgent please, starting with the word byzantine

BTW isn't "Elimination" kind of vionent as a term? I wish they used a less upsetting name.

In any case, by upvoting this you are providing visibility to nonsense.

readerbaza · 3 years ago
They see elimination in a positive light, because they won't apply it to themselves.

u/readerbaza

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