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mattkenefick

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    Comment #48619350

    I'd always been amazed over the years by how many people didn't even attempt CSS. They looked at it like an after thought. Reminds me of a favorite Archer quote: "I thought we skip…

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    Comment #48619243

    they probably weight documentation higher

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    Comment #47388836

    Can't ride my horse and buggy in the city anymore.

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    Ask HN: Would you hire a "vibe coder"?

    1. For the team leaders / engineering managers out there, would you hire someone that was a self-proclaimed "vibe coder"? 2. What, if any, amount of education in programming-relate…

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    Comment #42501539

    For real. It's always a headscratcher when I see these weird takes against it. Amazon has been working with Anthropic which at the very least will create a much more comprehensive …

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    Comment #42501516

    Hopefully React and Tailwind usage will fall off

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    Comment #42420370

    > much investment and little return, and no obvious large-scale product-market fit, much less a superintelligence. I'm always blown away when I see comments like this. It just make…

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    Comment #41959333

    > we need more mainstream vehicles challenging the boring design "norms" I'd argue that we need to start treating cars like the utilitarian objects they are and stop associating ou…

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    Comment #40985656

    It's unfortunate how many people misunderstand CSS today and how web applications should be structured. Articles like this make me sad.

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    Comment #40812252

    I really can't believe anyone bought one of these devices. It looked terrible right out of the gate.

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    Comment #40812159

    The sheep/ram was my favorite. Purple horns

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    Comment #40749834

    Woof. Lots of strong opinions and misinformation in this thread. backs away slowly

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    Comment #40390939

    An uncached ChatGPT no-less :D

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    Comment #40264945

    Not surprising since it's just an Android app

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    Comment #40030849

    > in fashion again! But it shouldn't be :(

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    Comment #38673588

    Their manifest v3 enforcements on third-party extensions are problematic. I was trying to update one of my extensions recently that used a Google library (ironically) and had troub…

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    Ask HN: Does anyone here use Haxe?

    I remember tinkering with Haxe maybe around ~2010. I was surprised to see it's still around and getting regular updates. I was (and still am, in some ways) against the idea of lear…

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    Comment #38583043

    Especially since it was a refactoring, it's generally better to handle those in stages if you're working with a team. There are lot of ways/patterns for solving the same problem...…

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    Comment #38347942

    I also made one a week or two ago. This one will swap out the video with an embedded player which generally skips ads. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/nhjphlheoepniijfpao.…

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    Comment #38264247

    Job interviews like this are terrible. It's a shame he's put so many people through it.

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    Comment #37517540

    I think a lot of it is the major influx of people that joined the industry in the mid-2010s that never had to write code before. They started on fancy UIs so that's what they know.…

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    Comment #37517410

    It bummed me out when modern browsers started supporting mistakes in code; like when Chrome would interpret incorrect markup and fix it for you.

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    Comment #37517357

    It's unbelievable to me that anyone uses or supports Tailwind. I feel like the internet has taken crazy pills.