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thatguyagain··on Don't make me think, or why I switched to Rails from JavaScript SPAs
Yes, Rails has a view layer (frontend).
thatguyagain··on Show HN: Find alternatives to almost any popular GitHub repo
Cool idea for sure, but as others have pointed out, it's not great yet. How would this work though? Wouldn't you need to have some meta data about the base lib, like for example "web framework", so that you can search for other libs using the same language (if that's even relevant) that also has been tagged as "web framework"? Seems tricky to me, but I don't know.
thatguyagain··on Swedes were fooled by one of the biggest scientific bluffs of our time (2020)
Most people I know made fun of this book from the very start. It was the book version of a clickbait article with obvious pseudoscience.
thatguyagain··on Lottie – Use after effects animations in web and native apps
They should add the Flutter package for it on the "third party platform" page! :) (https://airbnb.io/lottie/#/other-platforms)

https://pub.dev/packages/lottie

thatguyagain··on Supabase open sourced their dashboard
How long until we get functions running? Absolutely love the product btw, can't make the switch until we have functions tho :)
thatguyagain··on Live Starlink Satellite Map
Same here! Also, for some reason it made me think about what an interesting place the Arctic Ocean is, lol.
thatguyagain··on The NFT market bubble has popped?
Any sources on how many Venezuelans actually moved their money into crypto?
thatguyagain··on Show HN: PDFs from HTML
It's absolutely fascinating how much attention "x to PDF" or "PDF to x" draws still. I use and struggle with this on a daily basis, been trying to build my solutions but never really got there. It's still an issue people are willing to pay to solve in the best way possible for their use case.
thatguyagain··on German man loses 400k GBP about $500k in Twitter Bitcoin scam
Yeah, it is super clever to inherit money, or be born in the right place at the right time, or not being abused by alcoholic parents turning you chronically depressed, etc, etc. Please..
thatguyagain··on Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon
I guess one threat in that scenario is if some other competing service actually does succeed in their ads driven model, they can attract a lot more users, because it's free? But I have no idea about running a company this size tbh, just thinking out loud.
thatguyagain··on The CIA Rebrands with a New Website
I think you hit the nail on the head. Once you think of it that way it makes a lot of sense.
thatguyagain··on Domino’s Pizza drove increase in stock value by acting like a startup
So your point is that you don't live close enough to a restaurant to order from them? I hope that one day, you will.
thatguyagain··on No Cookie for You
Thank you, EU for setting _any_ kind of bar! <3
thatguyagain··on I lost all my savings in a mistaken Ethereum transaction
Nope, depends on the situation and which country.
thatguyagain··on Community Takes All: The Power of Social+
"the best version of every consumer product is the one that’s intrinsically social.".

Really? Really?? So, a knife, shoes, an orange, a god damn flower pot - the best versions of _every_ consumer product is the one that's social? My gym is probably "social" to some people, but I prefer it empty with just me there when I work out, that is absolutely the best version of that product for me. This guy is so ridiculously out of touch with people outside his bubble.

And why the hell "social+"? Why the "+"? i-dont-want-to-live-on-this-planet-anymore.jpg

thatguyagain··on What I didn’t know about Ruby Numbers
Nice read. Just wanted to add to your part about Floats (decimals) and how they are not unique to Ruby. A lot of developers, specially self thought developers (myself included) are not aware of this and might never discover it unless you start working with currencies or something similar. I guess academically thought developers learn this in school.

Anyway, it's an interesting topic imo :)

https://floating-point-gui.de/basic/

thatguyagain··on Why build another website builder?
Hi :)

Cool project. So do you mind actually answering the question of _why_ building another one? Just curious.

thatguyagain··on AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service
Are people really expecting the devs at AWS to give a "thank you" to every third party developer out there who's code they use? This is just ridiculous. When does this become an obligation? Is there an unwritten rule of how large/successful a team has to be before they need to give thank's like this?
thatguyagain··on Ruby 3.0 Preview 1
This might be a bit of a novice question, but will this affect the initializations of ActiveRecord objects in Rails anything?

For example, processing a large CSV file and inserting new rows in a database from it has always been extremely slow using Ruby/Rails unless you basically just write raw SQL that copies from the CSV and don't do any initializations of Rails models, #create, etc. I wonder if this will improve these things at all, but my guess is that it has to do with memory usage and not the speed of Ruby?

thatguyagain··on Ask HN: Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app?
Isn't it one of the most popular sites on the internet? I can't think of where on Reddit the CLS is bad, do you have an example?
thatguyagain··on Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0
Wait, why would every single adult be on basic income?
thatguyagain··on Why does a new Rails app need 106 MB of JavaScript?
Can't you just pass "--no-webpacker" to the "rails new" command to skip the npm packages? I haven't tried it myself.
thatguyagain··on Ask HN: Where to Search for Remote Jobs?
remoteok.io
thatguyagain··on Shoes
"building gui with ruby" - second search result in google for me. It's a lot more than just the name that goes into being discoverable and related to a topic/keywords/etc.
thatguyagain··on Show HN: Planning poker online – estimate tasks without influencing others
Same here.
thatguyagain··on Show HN: Planning poker online – estimate tasks without influencing others
I had no idea what this was about until I read your comment here that it was about scrum and work related. My first guess was that you would watch poker games and try to guess the outcome. I don't know if I'm just stupid (very very possible), otherwise my feedback would be to illustrate/explain/communicate more and better :)
thatguyagain··on If Rockets Were Transparent [video]
Very cool! For someone who knows absolutely nothing about rockets, this makes it look so much more primitive for some reason. Just these tubes filled with fuel.
thatguyagain··on Sweden to shut bars and restaurants that ignore coronavirus restrictions
> because Swedes are so much better than the rest of world at voluntary compliance"

I haven't heard a single swedish person utter this nonsense IRL. Sounds like a clickbait headline from Vice or something similar.

thatguyagain··on Show HN: FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned
Nice example signature
thatguyagain··on This Video Has X Views
Amazing work!
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