Readit NewsIt was so much fun to build and a hit at the party. I wish I had the opportunity to build more things like it :)
React seems like a bubble to me, created by fancy code that seems good at first glance but doesn't make a huge difference. What's it supposed to be amazing at, simple stuff or complex stuff? If simple stuff then why are people downloading 200K for Hello, World? If for complex stuff why isn't something like VSCode, Monaco, CodeMirror written with React? Those have state galore, and React's one-way data binding is no revelation for them. In fact inside React things like the ironically named react-hook-form get around React's one-way data binding by letting the form inputs be uncontrolled* (ironically named because react hooks makes it sound like it's going with the grain of react when it's thankfully going against it). Maybe ChatGPT will pop the bubble by churning out vanilla js that beats it. :)
* https://react-hook-form.com/advanced-usage/#Controlledmixedw... React Hook Form embraces uncontrolled components but is also compatible with controlled components.
As far as programming tools go I don't think we can call it a fad anymore.
I suspect it's partially an age thing. Now that we're older and becoming nostalgic for the wonder that games held for us as children this is a great way to capture some of that magic again.
As mentioned elsewhere, gaming guides aren't a new thing, but for a certain segment of the population they were pretty uncommon for a large chunk of our childhood. So, instead, knowledge was shared around the lunch table or at recess.
It's maybe not quite as exciting in my 30's as it was back then, but it's a hell of a lot more fun to discover things with my friends than it is to watch a 20 minute video about optimal strategy.
> Please don't post shallow dismissals.
HN Guidelines, https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you disagree, I suggest explaining why. My arguments are reasonable.
I can't speak to their efficacy personally, can you? Do you know for a fact that they are error prone? All makes and models? Or did you shallowly dismiss the other person's suggestion?
So by that point I had been working there for a year and some, knew the system pretty well and we had pretty much nothing to do. No new features, very few bugs due to little change in the product.
I'd show up to work at 10, leave for lunch for 2+ hours, and leave the office at 4. And even then I was mostly surfing the web and chatting with friends most of the day. The rest of the team and my manager knew, but they also knew there was actually no work. We'd all go play badminton before lunch some times and so there were 3 hours periods where no one was around.
Was pretty nice at first. Steady pay, no responsibilities or stress. But quickly got really boring. And since it was my first job out of school, not very good for learning and growth. Ironically the slow pace also really dampened by motivation to look for another job, so I hung around probably a year longer than I should have.
Like many HN users, I assume, my method for finding useful info online has always been to find a forum. You can't monetize a forum post without it being ignored or discouraged by the community so until that changes forums will always provide the most consistently helpful content on the net.
Obviously these companies are making enough money off the segment of the population that does not behave this way to make it worth their while. My question is how big is this segment and will it slowly dissolve as older generations pass and more grow up with the internet? Or will there always be enough people susceptible to this spam that the internet will never get better?
Meanwhile, ironic irony is ironic: "Hey, idiots! Learn to use Unicode already! Usability and stuff! Oh, btw, here is some extremely annoying Javascript pollution on your screen because we are all still children, right? Har har! Pranks are so kewl!!!1!"