jeffisabelle's comments

> web search sucks because it has to be profitable, and the profitability comes from making it suck. That's not true today for AI tools, but it will be in a few years.

Many people pay to use _AI tools_, that already brings in revenue. I had chatgpt plus since very early days, which was 20$/month, I don't have it at the moment because my company provides pro plan to me (and every other engineer) which is probably around 200$/month/user.

Of course, serving a single inference on LLM's probably costs a lot more than a serving a single search on google, but they've already got a solid business model and they won't need intrusive adds _in a few years_ (if at all)

I started my career as a backend developer and did a fair bit of frontend development as well. However, I'm solely doing infrastructure engineering for the last 6-7 years.

I think you are kind of mistaken here, as a _devops_ I never enforced our development teams to use docker, or another specific tooling. The thing is, software engineering become a whole lot difficult and complicated over the years. When I was first learning web-development 15 years ago, notepad was the only thing you needed to do web-development, now look what you need to have to have a simple CRUD app running locally. Setting up local environments become so much harder, so people found the answer within the containers as you set it up once and you can share it within the team easily. Please do not blame _devops_ for that.

You don't have to run your app via multiple docker images locally, you can still configure everything to work natively. It's just way more difficult because of the dependencies of modern technologies.

According to the article [1] - App store made 11.5 Billion $ revenue in 2017. That's like 30 million dollars per day. I'm not even going to argue that you need such money to maintain a static binary distribution platform.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2018/01/06/apples-ap...

I still can't believe more people complain about this being publicly disclosed than this being possible in the first place. No one is obligated to know the procedures on InfoSec 0-days and follow those steps.

> I’ve always wondered why some people seem so married to a single editor.

I'm thinking exactly opposite. I wonder why people change their IDE's/Editors so much between Eclipse/Visual Studio/IntelliJ or between notepad++/sublime-text/atom/VScode/coda/text-mate etc.

What's wrong with using vim or emacs and being happy rest of your career? It's funny so many of my colleagues kid me by saying "emacs is a great operating system but it lacks a good editor" without ever trying it while I'm using emacs without a problem for the last 6-7 years and people around me changing their editors every year to "popular editor of the year" for better features/performance.

I made something for myself, which parses provided subreddits, and sends the top voted links as a list to my e-mail daily. Few of my friends requested to receive same e-mails with different subreddits, and I have turned it into a product.

I have never publicly shared the product anywhere and lost my enthusiasm to develop it further, but most of my friends are happy that it keeps them up-to-date on the topics they actually care. I humbly welcome you to try if you generally enjoy reddit content.

https://reddit.cool/

> We've already seen that people who use this new feature tend to Retweet and Tweet more, creating more live commentary and conversations

I really don't like this trend. The same thing happened with facebook with notifications. They looked at the data and figured that when people have notifications they tend to open the app more. Then started to send tens of unwanted notifications every day. (Which comes from eg. groups that I never joined, or games etc.) Result: hard blocking notifications from the mobile OS level.

I hope twitter doesn't follow the same path. (Actually they already do this at some level with 'your friend x & y liked tweet z' notifications)

These retention things just kill the apps that I already love. But since the trend is this way, it is probably working out for majority of people and not for me.

I've learned about buffer while looking for job. (probably from who is hiring threads) Since then, I've been reading their medium posts.[1] Their values, hiring strategy, salary transparency and managing remote teams seems perfect to me and I really liked reading their posts. (Highly recommended)

[1] https://medium.com/buffer-posts

twitter's IP block also blocked, so other dns servers dont work either. VPNs are quite OK now.

you were also looking for interns last month, does that changed?

thanks for the copy/paste. I had the same reaction as you when I first saw pastebin is blocked. (about a year ago)

I still don't know why it's blocked and they don't even care to give a reason or explain what's going on.

we have seen worse things than pastebin. even `youtube` stayed blocked for months.

I hate that I can't even access to `open access manifesto` in my country for some stupid reason without manipulating my dns.

http://imgur.com/gjNR4

I agree that "hate php and love python" part, however, we may still need to use php or at least read php code at work/school. and this app could be useful for that purpose if it had python to php conversion too.

cool job right there, but just curious, why this is php >> python and not php << >> phython ? does that need a lot more work?

oh, this made me look at google analytics instantly. my blog is still safe with 6.68% `total` IE visits.

I Know, but I still think, that "more" part is not all about talent but practicing.

I believe with enough time, any programmer can create a web-page that looks decent.