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Is doing something for yourself really working for free? That's an interesting take. But I can understand why you don't want this for yourself, so enjoy the page in all its splendo…

Users being able to supply their own stylesheet is a core tenant of CSS. Go nuts and make it look however your heart desires!

> Consumers are represented by representatives who should have their interests in mind Exactly. Representatives are merely messengers, so they can only represent the consumers when…

> Consumers cannot possibly understand all potential ways in which they can be screwed over In a democracy, consumers and the government are the exact same thing. Since they ostens…

> "My phone is a server now" would've been better Not really. No sign of a phone. Just a computer — same as what all other servers run on. "My server runs on a computer with a form…

> If they mean turning a well-specified problem into runnable code, they’re increasingly right. Has coding ever meant anything else? This is just semantics, but I don't think a pro…

> The amount of non-determinism in compiler and LLM output is so vast that even comparing them is silly. What is that supposed to mean? Yes, LLMs are often considered to be non-det…

What is product management and service management? I tried asking the AI: - A product manager (PM) guides a product from its initial idea to its final launch and beyond. They defin…

> People management was always only a branch of management. What other branch is there? You are either delegating or doing all the work yourself. Those who delegate become seen as …

Proponents of what? Growing the pie isn't going to convince anyone who has a small slice of anything. Maybe you've never seen a pie before, but no matter how much it grows by the a…

> What I don't agree with is saying that programming was always management. I doubt anyone would, and that is why we even talked about the time when programmers weren't managers. A…

> That's a weird way to put it. How so? > Still, the bulk of the work is in the details. The bulk of the work is in describing the details of what you want to see happen to another…

The last time a programmer wasn't a manager was when they were handed a piece of paper with toggle combinations and their job was to flip the toggle switches as detailed. AI doesn'…

What boggles your mind is not that people are falling for the genetic fallacy, but that others are calling them out for falling for it? Does this stem from you believing that there…

> I really think it was just one persons opinion that got published. What alternative is there? Obviously very few of the ideas in the book were conceived of by Uncle Bob himself, …

Every value must have a zero value was congruent with the dynamic languages of the time, which is signifiant as Go was designed to "feel like a dynamic language" that was able to h…

"Production-grade" typically means something that has been battle tested by users and has gone through all the trials and tribulations of dealing with their complains, suggestions,…

Those who held that philosophy (Thompson, Pike) are now retired. Those who still have careers ahead of them want to have something to do. The natural consequence of a "bullshit job…

> You take it as a conspiracy against developers when it's really a small team trying to find their way the best they can. Especially within a company more powerful than the indivi…

Only if the compiler is perfectly naive. With the state of today's optimizing compilers, the output might be very different from what you'd expect. But it also doesn't matter becau…

I was pleasantly surprised driving through the boonies recently. Scanning through the channels I stumbled upon a station that I'd say was playing only 20-30% typical radio hits, wi…

PGlite offers the "real database" compiled to WASM, which can then be embedded similarly to SQLite. You don't have to choose between PostgreSQL and "just a file".

The last time I remember seeing the same kind of behaviour was when document databases appeared on the scene. Content creators far and wide were writing about MongoDB vs Postgres, …

Do you see any other examples of where technical excellence is attention grabbing? From my vantage point, when something does a great job at solving a problem better than everythin…