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whstl
·그저께·discuss
I ignore video posts because my video watching time is after-hours.

I browse HN at work in-between GH Actions runs, compiling and Claude thinking, so no time for videos.
whstl
·4일 전·discuss
If that’s the case, I will wait for their own answer.
whstl
·4일 전·discuss
Without the "some" qualifier my quote totally loses meaning.

In the same message you managed to twist my words, lack reading comprehension, jump to conclusions and do a personal attack.

Since you're new here, I recommend reading this: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html , especially this part: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
whstl
·4일 전·discuss
For 90%, maybe 99% of projects: not really.

Postgres is a good middle ground, though.
whstl
·4일 전·discuss
Yeah. I feel it's more of a "ticking all the boxes" situation than anything.

For example: I worked with Rails from 2009-2024 and I haven't come across a single Rails project in the wild that didn't have the queue du jour installed: sideqik+redis, delayed-job before, etc. And then since it's there, people just end up using.
whstl
·5일 전·discuss
"Business processes" can also mean "building power point decks" and other things.

But your point stands: for critical business processes that need predictability, we indeed need determinism.
whstl
·5일 전·discuss
It’s 100% FOMO from investors, board members and C-levels disconnected from the daily work.
whstl
·5일 전·discuss
The craziest to me was someone saying “we are using AI in daily processes, now we need to automate”.

But of course to some asshole non-technical people it meant asking for their vibe coded bullshit to be merged into production without review and fighting about it.
whstl
·5일 전·discuss
> The worker-owned businesses that are more effective will do a better job of concentrating wealth though, as they don't have to pay investors back dividends or participate in stock buybacks.

That’s only close to possible if we start with the assumption that all businesses are billion dollar businesses.

This is also unrelated with the possibility to bootstrap a business without money.
whstl
·8일 전·discuss
This is incorrect. Concentration of wealth is definitely stopping them.

Most people can’t just stop working and start working for no cash.

I might be missing some obvious sarcasm, though!
whstl
·8일 전·discuss
I dunno, going back to the article, at some point customers are getting exactly what they're asking for:

"their kitchens are custom-built, so they need ovens with specific dimensions. Oh, and a rotating base like the one they already have."

“My oven at home connects to the fireplace. Does yours?”

“I make a lot of wedding cakes, what have you got for me?”

“Do you have a Ramadan mode?”

Those are all problems.

But are they problems worth spending time? I dunno.
whstl
·10일 전·discuss
Bingo. Bullshit work grows to accommodate productivity gains.

Is it easier to implement a design now? Then let’s redesign every quarter.

Is it easier to refactor the whole codebase? Then let’s rewrite in whatever new hotness.

This is not different from web frameworks 10-20 years ago. Is it easier to make a website using Rails? If so, why did I see an explosion in devs-per-project after I started using Rails? Because of the BS.
whstl
·10일 전·discuss
Yep, this is why experiences and ratings of models vary so wildly.

I recently migrated a very large web app to Tailwind and Opus kept screwing up over and over, refactoring and changing the design, the more complex the component became.

I ended up asking Haiku to do it and it managed to do everything correctly, pretty much without intervention.
whstl
·14일 전·discuss
It's either a problem to have this released or not. Google doesn't seem to care this is in an official repo.

> its also speculation to suggest that's the only reason he was fired

That's the reason given by Google.

The implication here is that Google is lying about this whole thing for ass-covering reasons.

People here are up in arms because someone potentially misrepresented a tool that Google itself doesn't even care to remove, while Google HR and legal are possibly lying to damage someone's livelihood.
whstl
·14일 전·discuss
> one is not like the others

> probably got properly approved

> also possible

That's not a rebuttal of anything, that's just a series of wild assumptions.
whstl
·16일 전·discuss
Google doesn’t even care to tell its side.

HR/Legal very often will give bullshit reasons for termination, since their main job is to shield the company from lawsuits anyway.
whstl
·17일 전·discuss
The manager, Addy Osmani, also reportedly left Google, which is interesting.

Also more interesting is the fact the repository is still alive and kicking.

I can see Google firing the dev but HR/Legal giving a bogus reason, as is regular practice.
whstl
·17일 전·discuss
Yeah, people are just going wild with assumptions.

Every story has three sides, or something like that?

...except when HR/Legal is involved, then it has quite a few more. Lots of secret narratives that are relayed differently to different people.
whstl
·17일 전·discuss
It was clearly greenlighted by management. The person who made the announcement was Addy Osmani, who was manager of the fired developer at the time.

This is in a Google-owned organization, with several other similar repositories, a lot of them using the same API.
whstl
·17일 전·discuss
This is clearly something done in official capacity, during working hours, with the knowledge and support of his manager, who announced the CLI.

It says "This is not an officially supported Google product" because it's a DevRel sample/experiment, just like dozens of other Google repositories made by Google employees as part of their job.

Even some other tools in github.com/google have as much: https://github.com/google/python-fire / https://github.com/google/pytype/blob/main/docs/index.md / https://github.com/google/dopamine / https://github.com/google/go-tika