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My point is that stewardship of corporate IP bestowed by the long-dead founder is different than ownership of art you yourself (an individual) created.

Corporations aren't people

I deleted my account because it wasn't fun anymore. It turned from sharing cool stuff and being able to connect with random famous people to politicized garbage. There's still cool stuff, but there's also plenty of cool stuff elsewhere (The Internet is a big place).

I'm glad you were able to be with him when he passed.

I feel like we should get rid of the boilerplate, rather than have an LLM barf it out.

I maxed the RAM and HDD on my 2010 Intel MacBook Pro -- using standard parts! Really kept that machine going for a long time.

Nintendo has fans because the software is good. Sure, the Switch was "underpowered", but if it plays the games I want to play, then who cares?

Also, I think the $700 PS5 Pro wants a word with you.

Yeah, Kroger's behavior is infuriating. I've stopped shopping there; fortunately I have choices.

> the top 1% are taking the gains for themselves

They deserved it because they worked hard for it!

I'd love to know the details.

Do you have any examples?

"640K of memory should be enough for anybody." -- apocryphal BillG

That's the exact opposite of my experience. Completely boring biz software that was, in essence, collections of forms. Didn't need the additional development burden of an extra JavaScript codebase, but that's what's in vogue, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah, it seemed from the description of desired functionality that heavy JS was going to be a necessity.

I go in to my office once a week -- mostly to remind people that I exist in real life. All (most) of the developers try to come in on the same day, I guess to facilitate that personal connection. I could probably take it or leave it, though.

> you still have to do that somewhere with complexity

Don’t forget about the other “invisible” requirements with a JS solution — more tests, more code, longer builds, more 3rd party libraries.

The funny thing is that DX for JS apps is usually _worse_: 2x the code just so we don’t have a page transition.

JS-heavy sites are frustrating to me due to generally worse UX — links can’t be opened in a new tab, because they’re not actually anchor tags. Forms can’t be submitted by the “return” key. Navigation using back/forward buttons is broken. There might be a few companies who get it right, but most don’t.

Maybe https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/where...? Though this article is about Prodigy.

Funny that Japanese _game_ software is brilliant.

I'm not a fan of his most recent work for Apple, but let's not discount his past brilliance. Hopefully he can get his "mojo" back. Although I'm bearish on "AI", so really don't care about this new partnership.

I've been reading books about the history of computing, stuff like "The Soul of a New Machine", "Showstopper!" and "Revolution in the Valley" -- all these people working massive unpaid overtime. I guess some of them got stock options. Part of me wishes that I could care as much.

LiveView in Phoenix is a similar experience, and I enjoyed (briefly) using it. https://pragmaticstudio.com/ has a good introduction.

One of my former employers did a big layoff last year -- lots of folks who I remembered as being "important" (long time employees, large contributions, lots of domain knowledge) were let go. Seemed pretty dumb, but the wreckage stumbles forward anyway.

https://www.classicuo.eu/ ?

People complain for a while, but there's always an app or workflow that can't be replicated on any other system...

I'll put in my 8 hours for sure -- but I'm not going to burn the midnight oil to make my capitalist overlords richer.

Not a split layout, but I made a 60% keyboard with Matias switches and Apple key caps. It's been my daily driver for about two years with no problems.

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You jest, but sometimes I wonder which is more likely.