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Gerald Weinberg was a prolific author in the tech consultancy space, and most of his writing consists of anecdotes like this. He explains his theories by telling stories, the verac…

The winner in the “software with passionate users” has to be emacs.

I find this a vague, reductionist view. When I have dinner with my family today, there’s more than one nature, while my own nature has changed in the last 10 years. To say most peo…

> we just have phones now That’s a huge understatement. We have electricity, refrigeration, medicine, mass transit (including international), human rights, enormous increases in po…

Do you have any specifics on examples of the design being inferior?

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If you want ChatGPT to say nice things about you (or bad things about your competitors), then you'll need to give it your version of information - at least that will be the line pe…

I'd say this is exactly what the interviewers wanted. They're interested in how you break down the problem, the types of solutions you consider, your understanding of the trade-off…

Good question. I suppose an existing plugin that meets the requirements, or the skills to build one myself.

Doesn't that seem a bit passive aggressive? See what I did there?

Also, there are many UI challenges solved easily by React plugins - e.g. multi-select boxes, datepickers, colour pickers, file uploads, etc. Yes, this is using a sledgehammer to cr…

Don't we have that with Patreon, GitHub Sponsors?

I agree, it would be nice to make it easy to donate, and then the donations are spread to others within the ecosystem. But perhaps they're worried about a ruckus when they choose t…

This is true of all famous essays. People remove the nuance included in the body and over-apply the title without really understanding it. For example "Goto considered harmful". I …

Some good previous discussions on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35053118 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21476261

> outside EU Way to kick a Brit when they're down! Fortunately, we implemented the EU regulations back in 2013, and haven't yet repealed them so I can chargeback on a normal credit…

I actually do have a right, very specifically my statutory right under the UK's "Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation, and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013" which requ…

One reason I didn't go back and check was that I always turn this off. Of course, I'm fallible and may have made a mistake here, and so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt on t…

In the UK at least, the vendor needs to show that their process was transparent and fair in order to fulfill their side of the contract. One of the examples specifically called out…

Absolutely, I'm going through that process at the moment. I posted this in case it helps somebody who doesn't have that protection or has cashflow issues.

For reasons that now elude me, I signed up for educative.io last year. It's not great content, little more than a few crappy ebooks in a web UI. I'm pretty sure I turned off auto-r…

The closest I've come to being "blown away" by it was a project where I needed to clone the results of an Excel workbook onto the server, without installing Excel. I started with P…