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Thank you, I really needed to read a sane voice. The relentless hype-onslaught is not easy to cope with.

Haha thanks for that article (I microwave most of my meals). I wonder if this statement from the article will apply to AI: > Second, microwave cooking fell victim to the same curse…

Absolutely, I was purely reacting to the "not". Every variable named not-something will lead to difficult-to-read code with double-negation like "if (!isNotSomething()) {...}".

I just wish the variable was called "has_been_viewed_much".

> I'm not sure people are reading comment chains deeply enough to be swayed by two strangers arguing online HN comments sway me more than any other source nowadays. Reading comment…

I really liked the specific actionable steps in the TLDR.

You can only serve the 3 closest levels to a lobby with stairs or escalators.

I guess I wanted to say that no tool/technology can prevent people from creating chaos (or make up for bad/non-existant processes). People need to do that. Of course, systematic pe…

Not sure if tools and technologies can solve accidental complexity. In my opinion, a system that has been stable for years isn't 'mature' in a good sense. An exceptional system is …

A few of my favorites: - "Not-Boxes": Negatively formulated text (disable... / don't...) - "Button-Checkboxes": Checkboxes with verbs that trigger actions - "Radio-Checkboxes": Rad…

Same for me. Add a 'paste text to clipboard'-button top center.

I meant it more as feedback, to be aware that some people might have this reaction. I do believe it is sincere in the beginning.

I developed an aversion to "with love"-marketing. I've seen too many products come full circle from idealistic "ad-free-forever" "will-never-sell-your-data" "open-source-forever" "…

The author makes beautiful concise statements that make me feel like he has a deep, big-picture kind of understanding of computing. I think this person would be very satisfying to …

Ouch, so painful to read.

Or when you're too lazy to hunt down the sources, both for internal and external dependencies. Just Ctrl+click the method and have a quick look at the decompiled implementation, us…

And then there is the moderate position: Don't be the person refusing the use a calculator / PC / mobile phone / AI. Regularly give the new tool a chance and check if improvements …

I like the AI-disclaimer :). This might become a thing for blog and news articles: (c) all words written by on without AI. And then there will be a robots.txt directive that allows…

Is anyone else frustrated by their phone‘s autocomplete not suggesting their name?

Well said. Sad how that reflex starts kicking in for HN comments as well (ps I'm not getting any signals from your comment).

Yes, I feel the same recently with Google results. But I think I would still like to see the immediate 10 results, along with a big button "Try harder - not feeling very lucky".

I understand your point, but I still prefer instantaneous responses. Only when the immediate answers become completely useless will I want to look into slower alternatives. But fir…

This. Speed determines whether I (like to) use a piece of software. Imagine waiting for a minute until Google spits out the first 10 results. My prediction: All AI models of the fu…