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I think that's a factor for sure, but is less important (generally) as the price gap increases. The Steam Deck also has a disadvantage in that only some of your existing library wi…

I love my Steam Deck aside from the quality control issues I ran into, one of which required an RMA. It's really hard to justify $1000 for it when the Switch 2 is $450 (soon $500).…

Same. It’s the best ebook experience I’ve had so far despite its size and I’ve tried a myriad of ereaders. The only missing feature is a backlight for reading at night.

There's definitely a number of reasons, but I vividly remember _struggling_ with Ember data at the time. The framework itself was already complicated and the data management story …

> The best part about blog feeds? It's just an idea. There's no central authority. There's no platform. I think this is blessing _and_ a curse. I had an idea that I built a while b…

You can have a modular monolith with multiple entrypoints that enable autoscaling of independent "deploys".

I had the same thought when reading the article too. I assumed (and hoped) it was for the sake of the article because there’s a stark difference between idiomatic code and performa…

Great article, memoization is pretty complex and full of trade-offs. We recognized a lot of these same pitfalls as we worked through making memoization a consistent and common patt…

Hey HN, I built a small/fun side project mostly over the holiday break (been busy, so haven't shared it much yet) that I like to think of as a small social RSS aggregator called on…

I’m not sure if it changed, but Crystal was limited to a single core which I imagine made it easier to choose Go over Crystal. That and I’ve found that folks often aren’t very rece…

If we can’t have native macOS on the iPad this would be the next best thing. Imagine having Linux or macOS on the iPad that is treated like any other app (sans memory limits and et…

I think this may miss the point of the article, which is pointing out that you can get a lot of value for very little effort by using a timestamp instead of a boolean. I don't thin…

The beauty (and horror) of Ruby is that you can do almost anything with it. I think this is a really interesting and clever use of the "can do anything" aspect of Ruby, although I …

I'd even be happy with a performant VM app that I could run linux on at this point. It would be so nice to be able to swipe up and go from linux VM -> imessage, etc.

The advantages you listed are potential advantages but the reality is often different. Those features don't come for free, and given the number of SPA's out in the wild it's rare t…

It's also worth mentioning the Enumerable module that can be mixed in to classes, which gives you `map`, `select`, and much more for free by implementing `each`. https://ruby-doc.o…

I don't disagree, and that lack of common interpretation can be both good and bad. Good because it lets you apply your own understanding and experiences to it, and bad because it i…

I read the article and didn't really feel that they disagreed with, or debunked any of the principles. It reads like they formed their own understanding of each principle and maybe…

Feels somewhat abandoned at times, but Apple Books is okay.

> You can write something and be done with it, then move on to the next thing. That's part of the problem, you really can't. Requirements change. You have to update that service, a…

I 100% agree it's all trade-offs. I think cost is important, but in that scenario it's going to cost them a lot more in time to split out and maintain several services. Devops was …

Rewriting piecemeal is a great idea but extracting microservices adds a whole new set of problems that likely aren't worth the tradeoff, especially when your team is just you or on…