People building things without first checking if anyone actually wants or needs them first.
What a killjoy. Who cares? Let me toy around.
Toy around, 100%. Just don’t be surprised when it’s not a commercial success.
Ask HN: What is not going to change in future?
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#33I don't see a world 50 years from now where writing SQL isn't needed.
I find it a little surprising that while we have hundreds of languages for writing software, and several options with a modicum of popularity in almost any describable paradigm, one database schema and query language remains so dominant.
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#34People submitting Ask HN's without proofreading
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#35Humans. Marcus Aurelius wrote Meditations about 2000 years ago and it’s still useful for navigating modern life. On the surface, life has changed a ton over generations because of technological advancement. Underneath that though, basic human worries and basic human needs haven’t changed and probably never will.
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#36Don't you mean what is not going to change? I think you're missing a verb. 1. LaTeX. I can still compile my docments that I wrote 20 years ago... 2. The thirst for profit/quick releases over reliability (except for a few examples like LaTeX) 3. The existence of open source software as the one antitode to all software being horrible 4. The obsession with creating new things for the sake of creating, instead of for the…
You're probably right in that LaTeX won't change, but I am beyond happy having left and picking up typst for a recent project. Despite existing limitations and beta-ness, it's already fantastic, and most importantly promising (has financial backing by now). Instant preview and precise as well as legible error messages alone make it so. I had an initial document and development environment running within twenty minute…
> That's impossible with LaTeX.
Certainly not impossible. I don't find LaTeX hard to install, at least on a modern Linux distribution such as Ubuntu (and if memory serves, it wasn't hard on macOS either).
I agree that setting up a basic template from scratch can be tedious and I wish this was better, but the common approach for newbies is to copy a template from somewhere, and for more advanced users, they probably have some base template with personal tweaks that they keep reusing (I know I do, not only because I hate Computer Modern).
There are still a whole number of issues with LaTeX (such as incompatible packages, the inconsistency in font handling between pdflatex and xelatex, beamer is generally IMHO a mess, etc.) but what GP wrote - that old documents will continue to compile and give the same results - is true.
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#37One thing that's not going to change is that things will keep changing for no good reasons because engineers need something to do.
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#38Meta:
The Basecamp founders often talk about the advice they receive from Jeff Bezos, which was "Focus on the things that won't change in your business." [1] He was referring to things like "fast delivery" and "good customer service." But, it means a lot in a professional context, too - because it's things worth learning well.
[1] https://medium.com/@seansheikh/bezos-wisdom-focus-on-the-thi...
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#39Most of having a job is people skills. Whether we’re writing jQuery by hand or prompting ChatGPT 9.5 to output our work, your most important job skills will still be collaboration, communication, and in some cases just being a good hang.