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gareve··on Preferring throwaway code over design docs
I think it all depends on the size of the team.

Very small team and too many design docs, not good.

Huge team, multiple timezones, multiple squads, and few design docs, not good either.

And then you balance with all the values in between depending on your team size & culture.

Even within the same company, your approach will/should change as it grows. There's a critical point where move fast and break things approach will eventually end up with too many outages, production bugs, unpolished/confusing product, and last but not least, FTC eye watering fines.

gareve··on Gabriel García Márquez: Sons publish novel that late author wanted destroyed
These days we don't know if that's true or if is just a marketing ploy to publish some unfinished book.
gareve··on Known Meta Sites
my guess is: scam sites acquired by meta to stop the scam
gareve··on ArtPrompt: ASCII Art-Based Jailbreak Attacks Against Aligned LLMs
roflcopter attack
gareve··on Sci-Hub founder receives EFF award for providing access to scientific knowledge
Seems it will be hard for her to attend the event on San Francisco, given that US decided to label her as Russian spy.
gareve··on Before you try to do something, make sure you can do nothing
baby steps baby!

this is great strategy for debugging & so code reviewers have an easier time reviewing your incremental changes.

On newer teammates, I usually reject code reviews if they don't follow these practices (if the company's engineerimg culture is compatible with it)

gareve··on Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
I was there when lifehack blogs will continuously talk about a newly released note taking app(Wunderlist, Evernote, OneNote, etc.)

After trying several apps, including evernote, it felt they had too many features that made them too complex for my simple use case.

After trying several methods, my stable workflow is: - Dropbox markdown file for year long notes. - Google Keep for (shared) checkbox lists & multimedia notes. - Unread emails + snoozing for TODO tasks.

gareve··on Detect Food Adulteration with Easy Home Tests
In the US, lead was found in Tumeric
gareve··on Show HN: Kysely, a type-safe SQL query builder for TypeScript
for the db schema definition for this tool, where does the source of truth lives?

I'm trying to think what happens when a column gets deleted or added in the prod, ci, or dev db tier. Ideally those db schema changes should happen at the same time but real life doesn't work like that.

gareve··on Welcome Lemmy.world
with some basic extrapolation, at how many users they'll hit the extra expensive Hertzner servers? or in other words, at which point they'll need to improve their architecture?
gareve··on Releasing an indie game on 3 consoles at once and failing financially (2016)
> Games made by passionate small dev teams that really love what they are doing will still produce indie success hits.

If there's 5 indie games that fit that description, people can easily enjoy, & more importantly, remember them.

What happens when 20, 30, 50 games fit that description? There's no way no good games fall through the cracks. The amount of games developed in a year increases while people's retention remains constant.

gareve··on Migrating Netflix to GraphQL safely
that's solved with Relay's graphstore
gareve··on A guide for people who want to self-study the basics of computer science
create a music or YouTube bot together
gareve··on A guide for people who want to self-study the basics of computer science
if you would have to do it again, would you change something on your methodology? I assume there were some unnecessary time sinks here & there
gareve··on Arduino reads punched cards for cloud computing
the low depends on the volatile price of apples. That hand doesn't move for free
gareve··on Good Vibrations
hug of death
gareve··on London Underground Dot Matrix Typeface
After London City Airport comes "King George V"
gareve··on London Underground Dot Matrix Typeface
thanks, i hate it
gareve··on Reddit Strike Has Started
Great Visualization! My perception was that only 10% of the subs were going to go private. At the time of this comment, 87% of reddits are private
gareve··on I bought the only physical encyclopedia still in print
Sounds like: We want to invest on AI and this is our exclusive training dataset.
gareve··on Trigger your scripts with your feet(USB foot pedal)
What other usages have you found for your foot pedal?

Code: https://gist.github.com/gareve/0a75f284650d8d74055aa8c7c31a5...

gareve··on A DIY business card that runs Linux (2019)
I wasn't expecting this to cost less than 3$
gareve··on HBO Max new Captcha system
I trust more the BS here than the Phd from above
gareve··on I don't need to clean up my desktop and downloads folders in macOS (2021)
same, but instead of backup, I just delete the biggest unimportant files. I can last for years doing that, until I change Linux distro, new laptop, or just a fresh install
gareve··on The UX Research Reckoning is Here
omg, they cherry on top was hijacking the back button
gareve··on Remembering GitHub's Office, a Monument to Tech Culture
Is a good time to collect stories of this period in Software. I'm doing it too for my own private archives.

I want to compare in 10+ years, how me and my colleagues used to see & experience our industry.

gareve··on When feedback is not a gift
True! Some books take a while to take off into the meaty part of the topic/story.

Until you reach that point, you may be disappointed due to mismatched expectations.

A good cover + summary + intro + PR can help to reduce it.

gareve··on Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails
I haven't been able to apply to a real project yet, but I like the idea of building to refactor.

You execute for today, but make it easier to replace parts on the future

gareve··on Show HN: A Google Reader-inspired RSS reader
Hug of Death?
gareve··on SVG Backgrounds
This seems very useful, but the subscription model irks me a bit.
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