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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • As much as technologists like us wish we could prioritize efficiency and use the latest and flashiest tools all the time, that’s just not practical. When you say you want each company to have an objective set of technical requirements when choosing a toolset, you also have to have a set of practical requirements. What is the cost of friction of adding a new tech stack to the company?

    Adding electron means just learning electron. Adding Tauri means learning Tauri and Rust.

    It’s like the saying goes, “the best camera is the one you have with you”. It’s true with any business decision.


  • If I’m a company and want to bring something to production quickly, what should i choose:

    1. A relatively new tool that has seen barely any production use and thus could have a bunch of unanticipated problems. Also nobody uses it so every new engineer you bring onto the project has to learn something entirely new before they can start really contributing. You also have no idea how long it will be supported by its developers into the long term future.

    2. A battle hardened, production tested tool that has a huge community, has been around for a long time, and that a lot more developers already know how to use.

    Sure #2 might be slower by a few fractions of a second, but if I’m in charge of the business i know which option I’m going to choose 100% of the time.








  • I’ve certainly seen and heard of Google modifying results or puting punishments on users because they broach topics that violate their terms of service.

    I will absolutely agree that the rules of their ToS are heavily determined by the desires of advertisers and written laws.

    But just because they may restrict the content based off of advertiser’s wishes or because they are legally required to do so doesn’t mean that Google is in bed with the government and willing to do anything to prop up the government’s power so they can keep making money from them.

    That’s a really big and important jump you can’t just hand wave away just because a company as large as Google works with the government on some things. That’s just conspiracy theory and detracts from the very real, evidence based criticisms we can and should be focusing on.










  • If this was a way mods would actually protest, wouldn’t it make sense to say who is saying it? They removed all attribution, all indication of votes, or any example of a subreddit actually doing it. Maybe I’m jaded from my many years on reddit, but I always get suspicious when I see a post like this that it could be a fake post or something.

    With that said, if moderators actually did set their subs, like /r/aww to nsfw, that would be pretty funny.


  • Not wanting to link to reddit makes sense.

    Though I would say, I would take something more seriously if a Reddit admin or a mod from a dozen subreddits said it. That would add lot more significance to a post like this. If it was from a highly upvoted post, then it’s be more likely a form of protest that reddit mods might have seen or even decide to take seriously.

    When I don’t see any attribution I can’t help but think it’s just OP faking a post or just trying to get attention for themselves instead of just posting a text post to discuss the idea. Maybe I’m just jaded from my days on reddit though.