willio58
Those bridges can really come in handy though. People always say it’s who you know, not what you know. That’s 100% true in my experience and when I look at the people making the most money around me.
FWIW I like to say I’m giving 3 weeks notice to my new employer, then give 2 weeks notice to my old one, and have a week to breathe :)
Wealth like this sounds great to those not that wealthy, but those experiencing it often aren't any happier than those who have their needs met. Look at any of the tech (b|tr)illionaires; do they seem as genuinely happy/content as the neighbor down the street who gardens regularly and has a tight-knit group of friends and family they spend time with?
Don't get me wrong, money is great! But the "keeping up with the joneses" never stops. You quickly adjust your mindset and feel poor compared to your buddy who has 400 million dollars.
This is what I thought the original post was about. The glasses you have to wear is where that lost me.
If we could get lip-reading via your computer/phone camera down perfectly, that's the real win. Making people wear your goofy frames is where you lose a massive portion of people. Nobody wants to look like Zuckerberg lol
Just becuase a company has more money doesn’t mean they direct that money well, and even money directed well at the wrong people will result in failures.
This specifically summarizes a huge gap I think some people have around ai:
> Architecture matters more than ever, but it is easier than ever to fix.
You can prompt away to your heart’s content, but if you’re not pushing it in the right direction architecturally, you’re bound to face frustration eventually.
The most successful way I’ve found to convert those leaning anti-AI or AI-skeptical on my team is just showing them how much tech debt I can clean up with AI. They get excited to pitch in, and they see that it does actually benefit them in some meaningful ways. That set of endpoints that’s been neglected for years? Let’s stop complaining about them and DO something about them, today. I’ve actually seen life be blown into some devs who were coasting for a while. It’s an interesting time.
This is disgusting, full stop. Destroying any sense of trust in your company by allowing people to rat on others is going to bite them in the ass.
And all for AI, which ultimately is a tool that the largest portion of people already have adopted and those that haven’t often understand it’s the way forward anyway. Like instead of letting your people do this organically, maintaining trust in their org, you poison it instead. And for what? A few extra dollars in the bank? The greed is gross.
Not to mention the loss of customers/potential customers. I always thought proton was one of the good companies. That’s out the window with this news.
Sounds like DigitalOcean really convinced Coyier that they'd invest and focus on CSS tricks as a key funnel, and I'm so curious why that ball was entirely dropped.
In my personal experience, so many decisions like this come down to one person with a suit and tie at the top making a decision, then either leaving or completely forgetting about it. I wouldn't be surprised if that happened here. For me and so many others, it's just hard to see something that had so much momentum and promise completely neglected for no clear reason.
Hoping the best for this new iteration of CSS Tricks, especially in this time where so many are struggling to find that interest in learning the basics of technologies when AI can do it for you.
Human generated content is quite literally the only thing left.
Goes to show big investment doesn’t mean shit if the engineers behind it don’t know what they’re doing.
It’s funny to read that from this becuase I read it as these companies are so good at exploiting capitalism that they can make this much profit and benefit so few actual people in the country. It’s like they’re a leech on the country, rather than companies to be proud of.
If we have hundreds of hyper-successful companies but we have people going into medical bankruptcy for a cancer diagnosis, I’d say America is failing at taxing these companies enough to fund what actually matters in society.
Can you be more specific? Because to me the DOM is one of the simplest conceptual representations of UI one could imagine, a tree of nodes.
I mean what do you call it when a package adds new functionality in v1.1 vs 1.0?
Improving itself is hard to see. I don’t as a developer using opus 5.5 see it improving itself. It’s great, and I expect the next opus to be better, but while I have this version it seems pretty much the same.
Call me lazy but I’ve always wondered why I need to take out the trash when a cleaning crew was coming in 10 minutes after I checked out.
This is simply a step toward not needing to literally kill animals needlessly, if it succeeds. In the meantime, while stuff like this is really early on, we’re not going to stop animal testing.
How many years ago did Elon lie and say the roadster would be available? How about put out the thing people reserved back then instead of skipping to a version of it nobody asked for.
It’s like he’s a bad product manager, forcing you to build things nobody actually wants. Except make that product manager a trillionaire surrounded by sycophants. Nightmare shit.