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The Static Site Paradox

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Post by dimal »

otteromkram wrote: post #203
ukuina wrote: post #199

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> they chose voice navigation (instead of keypad tones) for their menu Most voice menus have hidden, 1-indexed touchtone mappings.

The only time I've had an issue with using the keypad is during the prompt that goes something like, "In a few words, tell me what you're calling about." Hitting zero repeatedly at that point is usually the only way through.

I was at the T-Mobile internet trucks in Asheville and the woman next to me was obviously stuck in some automated voice menu hell — you know when some one is sitting on the phone quietly listening to whatever the question “What can I help you with?” and then answering with one clear word. I saw her sitting there like that waiting, then respond clearly, “Disaster!” I’m going to guess the system didn’t have a way of handling that answer.

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closewith wrote: post #355
_heimdall wrote: post #353

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Again you aren't saying matters for whom. For the engineer writing code, I would absolutely expect they have different priorities and metrics than the business or accounting department. I personally wouldn't even consider hiring a dev who makes clear that the only metric they care about is gross sales.

> For the engineer writing code, I would absolutely expect they have different priorities and metrics than the business or accounting department. And yet the business has that expectation. > I personally wouldn't even consider hiring a dev who makes clear that the only metric they care about is gross sales. Yes, you would, as you are instructed to. The only difference is that you have deluded yourself that there are…

> Yes, you would, as you are instructed to. The only difference is that you have deluded yourself that there are interim metrics that actually matter, when they are all lossy abstractions of revenue or profit.

It sounds like we have lived very different lives. I have hired engineers and never once asked, or cared, how highly they value gross sales. I have also never been instructed to do so.

In engineering orgs I have hired for, the metrics prioritized are always related to estimating and delivering features on time, code quality (often through test coverage or bug count), etc. When hiring, the focus is on skills and experience that would likely lead to those outcomes.

Let's try a different industry. A politician will care most about how quickly and cost effectively a new bridge can be built. Do you think those should also be the only factors that matter to those actually building the bridge?

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Post by j_bum »

carlosjobim wrote: post #356
__mattya wrote: post #180

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You can listen without a license. I was able to hear everything on a $15 handheld and it was immensely helpful. In an emergency you are allowed to transmit without a license. There were plenty of unlicensed calls going to the Mt. Mitchell repeater. All that being said, I am definitely getting my license once this is over.

> You can listen without a license You can also talk without a license, who's going to stop you? Especially in an emergency situation.

I don’t know anything about this topic, so forgive me if I’m wrong.

Would there be any risks associated with increased “free for all” amounts of radio traffic going around during a natural disaster like this? Couldn’t specific channels become cluttered to the point where signal is too disrupted to read, or is that not quite how it works?

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Post by dendrite9 »

montefischer wrote: post #166
dimal wrote: post #147

We’re dealing with this big time in Asheville now. When cell service came back at all, everyone had shitty intermittent 3G, and none of the websites we needed for basic survival information would load. A bunch of good people created some text only news sites, and today I noticed that the Buncombe county website finally has a low bandwidth site, but even then when I inspected it, it had 130k of bootstrap css and 50k o…

Do you have links to the text only news sites?

Someone on here I think runs Plain Text Sports. I rarely follow games, but I like the idea of such a simple site.

https://plaintextsports.com/

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Post by closewith »

_heimdall wrote: post #362
closewith wrote: post #355

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> For the engineer writing code, I would absolutely expect they have different priorities and metrics than the business or accounting department. And yet the business has that expectation. > I personally wouldn't even consider hiring a dev who makes clear that the only metric they care about is gross sales. Yes, you would, as you are instructed to. The only difference is that you have deluded yourself that there are…

> Yes, you would, as you are instructed to. The only difference is that you have deluded yourself that there are interim metrics that actually matter, when they are all lossy abstractions of revenue or profit. It sounds like we have lived very different lives. I have hired engineers and never once asked, or cared, how highly they value gross sales. I have also never been instructed to do so. In engineering orgs I hav…

> In engineering orgs I have hired for, the metrics prioritized are always related to estimating and delivering features on time, code quality (often through test coverage or bug count), etc. When hiring, the focus is on skills and experience that would likely lead to those outcomes

Those are lossy abstractions for profit in the private sector. Again, you're missing the forest for the trees.

What's really happening here is that you are unable to see your commercial role, and instead are focused on the vanity metrics you think are important.

Every one of those metrics would be sacrificed in an instant by the business if it increased sales. They're only even marginally important as long as they align with that goal.

> A politician will care most about how quickly and cost effectively a new bridge can be built. Do you think those should also be the only factors that matter to those actually building the bridge?

The public sector is a different beast, but again your understanding is completely divorced from reality.

Public infrastructure projects in democracies are built to secure votes. That's the only criteria outside of the engineering requirements which are written in law in blood.

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Post by carlosjobim »

safety1st wrote: post #217
hiAndrewQuinn wrote: post #87

The killer app of WordPress is comments. No SSG, almost by definition, allows comments; WordPress blogs almost always come with them built in. If you want something like Hugo to really take off in the blogging sphere, all you need to do is create some good looking themes with comments . Figure that out at scale - maybe by using per-blog sharded SQLite, which you can host as a third party for pennies on the dollar - a…

So Hacker News and "real programmers" continually underestimate the foundational concept of a CMS. They consider it to be unsexy tech and therefore all problems around it must be solved and boring problems, and therefore they aren't actually aware of what any of those problems are. The WordPress ecosystem is of course the polar opposite of this, it's populated by billions of dollars worth of businesses that understan…

100% of small businesses who currently use WordPress are better served by an embedded iframe when they need something more advanced than static.

Have a restaurant and want to offer take-away online? That's going to be an embedded iframe.

Have a small hotel and want to let guests book their rooms online? That's going to be an iframe from Sirvoy, or a horribly bad Wordpress plugin.

Have a dentist office, or you're some kind of freelance consultant and want to let people book and pay times? That's going to be an iframe.

Have an actual blog that is popular and want to make a paywall so that only paying subscribers can read? This is where WordPress will shine right? Go and buy such a plugin for $200-$300 and later tell me how your experience was. Even for this basic blog functionality WordPress is a horrible mess.

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Post by carlosjobim »

makeitdouble wrote: post #219
sneak wrote: post #201

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An email address is the best contact form. Anything else is overengineering.

Email has surprising hurdles IMHO. For instance it means leaving the browser and have the default email client handling it. For some people it becomes a distraction, for other they didn't even setup the default client so it's a setup screen and hey have to copy/paste the email to their gmail tab. Other people actually don't want to give their email but will give a phone number, or their Twitter handle, a chat ID, or…

People who contact your business by e-mail or contact form are immensely much better customers than people who contact through a chat message or such. As a business you want to deal with e-mail customers and not WhatsApp/Messenger people, because 9 times out of 10, the chat people want an answer to a question and won't even say thanks after getting the answer and of course will never become actual customers.

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Post by carlosjobim »

j_bum wrote: post #363
carlosjobim wrote: post #356

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You can listen without a license You can also talk without a license, who's going to stop you? Especially in an emergency situation.

I don’t know anything about this topic, so forgive me if I’m wrong. Would there be any risks associated with increased “free for all” amounts of radio traffic going around during a natural disaster like this? Couldn’t specific channels become cluttered to the point where signal is too disrupted to read, or is that not quite how it works?

I think there are thousands of frequencies. Traffic can split up into those.

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Post by rekabis »

jasonkester wrote: post #216
Stoids wrote: post #122

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I do consulting for a few restaurants, and despite my experience building full-stack web applications, I find myself reaching for Excel for most of my deliverables. These are "applications" that "non-technical" restaurant operators need to be comfortable in. Having a sheet where they paste in some data and get their needed output has required the least amount of continued maintenance and training. They can drag the f…

It’s a shame that Access died, because that’s what you would have built this in 25 years ago, and it would have been better for your client in every respect.

> It’s a shame that Access died

Gesundheit? It’s still in Office 365 (subscription) and Office 2024 Pro (standalone).

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Post by erikts »

montefischer wrote: post #166
dimal wrote: post #147

We’re dealing with this big time in Asheville now. When cell service came back at all, everyone had shitty intermittent 3G, and none of the websites we needed for basic survival information would load. A bunch of good people created some text only news sites, and today I noticed that the Buncombe county website finally has a low bandwidth site, but even then when I inspected it, it had 130k of bootstrap css and 50k o…

Do you have links to the text only news sites?

https://text.npr.org/ text onli version of NPR (National Public Radio)
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