kowdermeister

Protecting the architecture is understandable, but there are plenty of indoor and portable units.

It's indirectly what most people wanted: good content for free.

We are talking about HTML. It's really-really easy and I don't think there is a problem at all that the author claims.

What is the point the author is making? That the knowledge of HTML is going away? That's obviously false.

> And it is becoming increasingly clear to me that there’s a whole swathe of Frontend Engineers who don’t know or understand the frontend-est of frontend technologies.

I would need some data on this, since it sounds like this claim is backed by anecdotes. None of my co-workers struggle with this and there's lot of frontenders in our company. Semantic HTML's usage is now baked into VS Code in a tooltip.

Yes, every web developer should be at least moderately good with HTML. Can we agree on that? Good :) Learn a bit CSS and now you have superpowers.

HTML only provides the LEGO blocks for the web, but the web is much more than that. It's an interconnected network of information with rich media. What matters is the information persistence, quality and accessibility.

For me winter starts below 15 degrees Celsius :) But for example on Tenerife there's only spring and summer. These things are flexible :)

Just do the rebranding, it's better to do it on the long run. Yes, it's a huge amount of work, but it could be done in a finite amount of time. The two names can co-exist, like

    New name (formerly HxHxHx)

Furthermore not all name updates are equally important, some can be done with a DB find and replace some is shit manual work, but you can hire for this job someone.

Read about stories how companies did this before. Currently I can think of one case that's ongoing: Taxify -> Bolt. They still have the Taxify logo on their cabs in Hungary but the app updated to Bolt (taxify).

Come to Budapest :)

hint: never get into freelancer taxis.

minor UI enhancement:

    line-height: 1.5em 

would make it more believable.

Wow, this will spark a lot of "amateur" remixes and bootlegs. Nowadays music technology is very accessible to anyone who's willing to put in some time.

Laser engraving :) It would make a sick CV, but better suited for name cards.

That's a brilliant idea. I think the electronics part is doable, a radio transmitter is a very simple thing. Some metal alloy with sufficient robustness would probably do the job.

We could even build an analog device that could store the messages just like a music box cylinder.

https://www.google.com/search?q=simple+radio+transmitter&tbm...

https://www.google.com/search?q=music+box+cylinder&tbm=isch

Also check out Graveyard orbits for decommissioned satellites where they can stay for millions of years and be our monuments from the 21st century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graveyard_orbit

> Why not? Because you're not really supposed to do stuff like that in the Nix paradigm which is all about determinism.

That's the part I always feel when looking at FP languages. They sound good on paper, examples are very tempting, but when reality kicks in to this pure, predictable, perfect world, it turns into a massive pain.

If I turn on a very simple computer, then the clock starts at zero. From the computers perspective that's all there is, it doesn't know the cause. From my point of view there absolutely is a case, me pushing a button.

This is not a god argument, there might be natural processes that can trigger such events.

Hosting content there is okay as long as you put your own domain on it. The migrating away from it won't cause too much problem if some trouble rises.

It is not like that. My point is that there's a barrier to entry to RoR that you should own a Mac. I gave up because my home setup is Windows based and I won't change it for the sake of a hyped framework or tool.

But none of this is surprising considering where RoR is coming from, I'm not sad or upset about it either :)

> Am I alone in thinking that the way we're doing brochures as layering multiple complicated ad-hoc layout constraint languages on top of a markup language that itself hasn't much changed in 20 years is absurd?

Probably you are not alone, but I'm sure you've just haven't spent enough time building complex or niche things in the browser. For simple brochure sites, CSS3's full feature set is an overkill. Use cases on the other hand are near infinite and there are thousands of developers out there needing unique combination of CSS solutions that you can't think of.

Rearranging content for example is a great way to reduce server rendering logic: just generate a bunch of <article> elements and the client will know how to display it. Even the user can make choices based on zoom levels what layout they prefer.

Even with JavaScript support it's nice to offload rendering logic to be handled by the browser which renders it directly on the GPU. If you do layout with JS, then there will be a function call doing expensive calculation every 16ms, that not ideal and CSS3 solved it for us in many cases.

Exactly, that's why it takes an awkward long time multiplying two numbers greater than 10 in my head, anything less is instant.

Thanks, Twitter threads are part of the worst hacks ever.

Since this is using NN under the hood, I would add "INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER" for zero rows returned :)

How does it handle real life tables such as "employee_stock_option_pool_not_vested_IDS" for example?

Sorry for my ignorance, but is he working on HN? It's confusing because he wrote that he has no affiliation with YC.

I preferred to share it with a few trusted people so they can change my online profiles to something "permanent" when the inevitable comes.

I also share a preferred playlist for the goodbye ceremony :) Probably will keep adding perks there.

It's very sad when you see an update for example on LinkedIn saying "congratulate X for his one year anniversary". No, he's not working anymore, he's dead.

> The language of our time is English.

And tomorrows language is mandarin. Let's not write off that 1.1B speakers. With the rate China is expanding its influence in the world, I wouldn't be surprised if in 100 years not speaking mandarin wouldn't look a bit odd.

Don't forget Reddit. The depths of specialized subreddits there is mind boggling.

Like 95% of websites with JavaScript? :)

Good morning :)

- So what's your USP?

- We'll use bigger font size... and feature more clickbait headlines.

The interface is sound and you can generate sound with your organs if you want to go full pedantic.

What's wrong with gimmicks? Voice control itself is not a bad idea, the interface to control your technology is something you are born with :)

It didn't really work for me, tried it twice and quit both times. I really dislike that I had to be a one man show besides what I enjoy doing:

- sales

- networking

- sales

- accounting

- become your own project manager

- handle client requests, emails, phone calls,

- changes, followups, meetings

- writing contracts

- sales

- play well with client's partners

- marketing your previous work

- did I mention sales?

Kudos to anyone who can manage all these.

I would make the search input more obvious. My focus is dragged first to the "query, entries, per page" buttons because of the gray background.