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snuser | 4 years ago | on: I Miss the Old Internet (2019)

I remember the days growing on dialup using AOL and 'WoW(? i think)' this is much better

there's collaborative fiction and art all over the place, people easily talking and sharing their work and hobbies from homebrewing and math to the wookiepedia, gamejams, SCP, game mods, whatever is it kids do in minecraft and roblox even when it comes the mainstream there's stuff like (blockclub, the athletic ..etc ..etc ..etc)

If anything I think what all of these "old internet" articles illude to is the authors feeling nostalgic for when they were part of what they considered to be counter-culture or lost interests they want to burry themselves in

snuser | 4 years ago | on: The metaverse is not bullshit

At the end of the day the corporate branding and hype building is stupid and disingenuous, but people still enjoy interacting with 3d content call it what you want

snuser | 4 years ago | on: Gtk4 Tutorial

The windows 8 push ruined anything good about windows desktop development since then it's been a madhouse -- makes the JS world look organized

snuser | 4 years ago | on: Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score

It looks like the original as been updated, the differences don't seem very drastic especially when you consider what the SKU's w/ the m1 max cost

guess it's about a 1.5-2x difference in battery life though

snuser | 4 years ago

facebook drove your other options to suicide

snuser | 4 years ago | on: Brave and Firefox to intercept links that force-open in Microsoft Edge

They are dangerously close and may be crossing the line with these moves

mostly unavoidable bing integration, mostly unavoidable edge integration, unavoidable teams integration, bing rewards in the start menu

I'd expect lawsuits to follow in the coming months and years if they don't take some steps back

the marketshare they retain in the desktop space still places them in the classical monopoly position ( > 75%)

snuser | 4 years ago | on: What's New in React 18?

I think it's alright, the real problem that I've noticed is that a lot of developers tend to misconstrue what they need and bloat their projects in amazingly unmanageable way because it 'the way to do things according to random source x' which could be some weird abuse of state management systems like or redux or general application design

FWIW I've seen it in many projects outside of the react/js world as well

IMO there's been a general drought in books/material on reasoning/thinking about software in general in-favor of the framework/library centric mania we have now which focus on the least interesting aspects of the field -- the cynic in me thinks this is due to how we hire people but there's likely more to it than that

snuser | 4 years ago | on: How big tech runs tech projects and the curious absence of Scrum

Every company I've worked at that followed some sort of rigid scrum process has suffered from burnout and general failure in one form or another

It treats developers like consultants because it's really designed for agencies working on one-off short-burst projects ( this is the only setting I've seen it have a positive effect )

by nature it just chews people up if it becomes a day-to-day practice, the whole process revolves around the assumption that there's lack of trust and team cohesion

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