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gabrielsoon DisplayMate

Oh my, inspecting the page gave me a warm, cozy, nostalgic feeling and made me feel grateful for all the meals <table>s just like that put on my family's table throughout the late 90s and early 2000s.

gabrielsoon Perlsky Is a Perl 5 Implementation of an at Protocol Personal Data Server

I thought the statement was about Perl, not the project.

(joking, I owe a lot to Perl and have profound respect for it and most of the community, I hope this joke doesn't get out of hand)

gabrielsoon A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder (1992)

Good news is that the government can offer free treatment.

gabrielsoon Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love

Meh, I still hate at least half of those products/companies...

gabrielsoon AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts

Yeah make it work in the US where you can fly 4 hours in any direction and still land somewhere that speaks the same language, and not in Europe where a 1:30h drive takes you through 3 different countries that don't know how to talk to each other...

gabrielsoon Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck

In my experience, non-coders with LLMs can go beyond simple scripts and build non-trivial small applications nowadays, but the difference of outcomes between them and a competent coder with LLMs is still staggering.

gabrielsoon Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck

I'm not having the same positive experience on a >25yo insanely large and codebase built with questionable engineering practices

gabrielsoon Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck

The article misses the point that LLMs are not removing the bottleneck of writing code for people who know how to write code. It's removing this bottleneck for everyone else.

gabrielsoon Why is it so hard to measure productivity?

Start-ups don't get 1-2 chances to get productivity right. They get 1-2 chances to get PRODUCT right.

If they don't get productivity right from the get-go, they only get 1 chance instead of the "1-2 chances".

That's the risk most individuals don't like about startups, if productivity is not a centerpiece of their operation, the leadership pushes for the only other solution they believe: long hours in inhumane working conditions.

I don't believe there's causation between a start-up productivity and their product success, but I would love to be proven wrong.

gabrielsoon I don’t believe in sprints

I lost 3 minutes of my life on that article and will lose 5 more to let you know you can skip it.

It's just a rant from someone that thinks they're too good to be managed, probably that kind of engineer that has 10 conflicts a week with everyone in the company because they won't budge on their unfounded personal opinions.