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I don't think there's any functional difference between "chat about this" and just directly entering what you'd like to do / ask about in the "Tell Claude what to do" option, I thi…

In this hypothetical, at that point, those people are going to be literal no exaggeration oligarchs (arguably they are now) - just saying they should give up what would amount to a…

1. There's far less product managers 2. What makes you so sure that product managers won't be automated away? The breathless pronouncements from the people running these companies …

I think what I intended to get across isn't too incompatible with what you're saying. I think it's fine to say "this function is too long", and long functions generally speaking sh…

Sorry, you're right - 20 lines or less is the recommendation in the actual text of Clean Code. I have seen people try to push that down to 5 in Ruby on Rails development (IIRC, the…

I think the rule that "functions should be small enough that they should be easily reasoned about" is a reasonable rule, and it makes sense to follow it 95% of the time. "Functions…

Fortunately we are humans, and professionally trained humans at that, and we can judge readability and comprehensibility of methods through better measures than whether it crosses …

The difference between "if you have nothing to hide" and the argument you're replying to is that "if you have nothing to hide" is used as a justification for why it's not a problem…

A blank phone is suspicious in and of itself and probably invites more questioning and suspicion. And from personal experience, once a border guard is suspicious of you and you're …

Outlook.com also seems to routinely ignore DMARC (it will bounce emails with a DMARC that's report only)

I like the look of the new design (mostly, there's some cases where whitespace can get a bit excessive), but I still don't like the technology behind it. It's funny that modern jav…

In my experience as a pretty frequent Reddit user, Reddit is really bad at "forgetting" that you want the old design and flipping you back to the new one.

There's some natural experiments that show that this happens, and is successful, when funding dries up a little. The early to mid 2000s were marked by a huge amount of bootstrapped…

I've worked for startups that worked on genuine problems that had high customer demand, and there was still the problem of selling what the product could be instead of what it is. …

It's great for document formatting. For app layout, it's very easy for the cascading aspect to shoot you in the foot if you're not careful (which is why even the most purist CSS wr…

I'd argue that it's impossible to have locality in all aspects. If your style, logic, and DOM are separated almost certainly you have a separation in domain - you're going to have …

Artists and DJs are a separate category than what the original article is talking about, and I'd agree that there's more need for creativity in those cases (although I have definit…

I like predictable UI even if it's a little "boring" because given the choice between utility and style, I'll choose utility every time. It is possible to make stylish things that …

Wouldn't be the first or the last time that a car has a different build out for different locales - as differences go, that's pretty minor.

Physical controls are worth it for me. Having a press to talk button, track advance and volume controls on my steering wheel is a pretty nice quality of life feature. I could do wi…

That is an amazing use of the technology, and for sure something that should result in a pretty successful company - but not enough to bet the entire VC ecosystem on. I think anyon…

This button exists in your browser settings.

Allowing multiple versions of a library to run simultaneously is a design decision - there are definitely shortfalls to allowing this (increased code size, a relative nightmare to …

Do you mind sharing some details? This doesn't match my experiences at all really - while I think running into messes with NPM is sometimes a little overstated, the number of times…

I wouldn't say "very" for me but it's definitely not as smooth as your average webpage. This is pretty edge casey use of HTML / CSS though, it's not surprising that browsers wouldn…