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Also: CTRL+A selects all CTRL+Shift+End selects all from where you are to the end CTRL+Shift+Home selects all from where you are to the top One of the (many) problems of web UIs is they often ignore the keyboard completely.
Emacs would like to have a word.
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Emacs would like to have a word.
Emacs is a text ecosystem. And it's trivial to add these shortcuts. Evil[0] basically rewires everything to be Vim. [0]: https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
> secure online banking is actually quite an easy problem to solve . . . The storage and transfer of numbers is not a particularly hard problem. I don't know anything about banking software, but I have a hunch the author underestimates the complexity (as is typical for HN). The Efficient Markets Hypothesis would suggest that if it were so simple to make banking software, then someone would do it.
The shareprice of META fell by 75% from August 2021 to August 2022, wiping about three quarters of a trillion dollars off its market cap. From October 2022 to now the shareprice tripled, adding half a trillion dollars to its market cap. Explain that in terms of the Efficent Markets Hypothesis? "share prices reflect all information" - what half trillion worth of information change came out in 2022? and what in 2023? W…
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Did they succeed because of PHP or was it just a tech used at the time and anything else similar at the time would be fine either way?
They succeeded because of php. It was easy to use for them. So it enabled them to materialize their ideas. It was the right tool for them. Anything else would have been fine either way, if it was the language they were the most comfortable with. In their case, it happened to be php.
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Bad engineering but potentially good business if it’s all billed to the customer…
No, it’s bad business because it doesn’t scale. Software is lucrative because you make it once and sell it to thousands of customers. If you’re making every customer their own bespoke thing, you’ll spend all your time for little return.
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The trick was there was enough growth that the savings from the compiler were massive . (I worked there at the time.) The inefficiency of the PHP interpreter was a great problem to have, because it came from the success it enabled.
Did they succeed because of PHP or was it just a tech used at the time and anything else similar at the time would be fine either way?
In any case, in the 2000s a PHP programmer/designer was analogous to a JavaScript developer today. Lots of talent out there, and it only took a few weeks of orientation and familiarizing for new hires to be productive.
If anything it's the incentive system in software industry, which is at fault. 1. No designer is given promotion for sticking to conventional designs. It's their creative & clever designs that get them attention and career incentives. 2. No engineer is paid extra for keeping the codebase without growing too much. It's re-writes and the effort he puts in to churn out more solutions (than there are problems) that offer…
Reminds me of one of my favorite papers ever: "Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems that Never Happened". https://web.mit.edu/nelsonr/www/Repenning%3DSterman_CMR_su01... Unfortunately, for my money, I think the only real way you can create an incentive structure which emphasizes stability and change is by offering some kind of form of insurance . My father was an electrician who often complained about how he n…
An ex-director of a French national security agency complained about exactly that during an interview, that you get more budget after a terrorist attack, or after you stop one that was well under way, but never if you avoided the condition to create a terrorist cell altogether, or nipped it in the bud.
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What kind of software do you work on? At what company? I have seen low level parts that are managed well, because employees have skin in the game But I’ve also seen a lot of what this post is talking about
I work at a consulting firm. Our salary is loosely linked to what percentage of our work is billable (with leniency for inexperienced staff, who aren't expected to be profitable while they're learning their craft). If you spend three hours figuring out why things fall apart on the 31st of the month... that generally can't be billed to the client, and therefore it's bad for your salary. On the other hand, if you spend…
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Is it just me or there are others who find discords handling of threads terrible?! I mean Slack is far from my favourite but at least they treat a thread like a thread where I can see the entire conversation in one place instead of visually parsing questions and replies while frantically scrolling up and down.
Threads in Discord appear in the sidebar usually. Are you thinking of replies?