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Cause with satellite is ALL about latency. It’s THE topic. Most comments here will reference it. It’s a critical issue. It doesn’t go away.

Last time I mentioned latency all the fanboys squealed about how latency isn’t a problem any more with low orbit satellites.

Whatever.

You can populate an ordinary web page with some react and get the best of both worlds.

Plain javascript is painful.

It’s nit necessary to throw out react to address the issues identified here.

The author comes across as fairly junior.

It’s funny when Microsoft comes to the Linux world it feels the urge to make it windowy, rather than learning the Linux text CLI paradigm.

All that Silicon Valley chick / bro culture was never what programming meant to me.

So block the entry way and the whole facility is out of action?

Seems a significant single point of failure.

Well that party ended a lot quicker than I expected.

Screenking screenzilla screenolio screenmega screencaptain screenogogo screeniac screenscreen screenempire screenmirror any of those would be better.

I really hate that aspect of Reddit.

When does it ever make sense to hide thread comments?

They shall hassle you to switch to their app until the end of time.

Explained in three sad letters.

Saves them the trouble of canceling it.

You know where this leads?

The blob. A 1959s sci fi horror movie in which a radioactive fungus takes over the world.

If not today then very soon.

No doubt what is there works and works well.

The issue is that developer confidence is very low due to google being in a never ending relentless drive to cancel stuff.

Well that’s what they said if they don’t get to #2

Just search google for the topic of google cloud shutdown, many speculate it.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-202...

A perfect, spot on analysis.

The only thing that’s weird about this is that it’s about 3 years late.

If this had been written 3 years ago it would have been topical.

But really it’s old news that google deprecates everything and leaves it’s developers in the lurch and that as a result no one wants to use their stuff.

It’s not surprising to hear this from Steve Yegge cause he’s a super switched on guy, but it’s surprising to hear this from him NOW.

Google’s cloud ship sailed years ago, they just haven’t yet got to shutting the whole thing down, but the writing is on the wall.

Google seems totally oblivious to how much developers distrust them, which is probably because dump trucks turn up every hour or so and dump cash onto everything which probably makes everyone feel that everything they do is awesome, even if it isn’t.

Sounds like fun but only if you’re not a programmer, for whom it would just be work.

The way to set your fee is to decide on a rate that is fair.

Neither too high nor too low. A fee that you think is reasonable.

When someone asks your fee, you say.... “this is my fee. I think it is fair. I do good work. I don’t overcharge. I know there are cheaper people out there but that’s not where I am positioned. You are welcome to work with the cheapest.

If you want good work at a fair price then I am happy to work with you but I cannot discount my rate because it’s not commercially practical for me to do that.”

If you lose the potential client then that is fine . Do not chase them with lower prices. Wait for the clients who agree with you.

When clients insist on some concession, some discount, then give it only in return for something else, like up front payment. Don’t concede discounts for nothing.

Some good advice maybe.

If you’ve googled then why are you asking about python 2?

You can answer these by googling.

Please browser developers just make it easy to switch requirements for HTTPS off during development.

There’s any number of circumstances in which my development machines don’t have HTTPS.

You don’t often see mathematics emergencies.

Imagine if google gave up because altavista existed.

Read the blog post but replace GPT3 with iPhone.

This is a massive generalization, made far too early in the lifecycle of a new platform.

Don’t take this advice.

Similar criticisms could have been aimed at developing iPhone apps, which have spawned many multi billion dollar companies.

What will you do for income when you’re too old to get a job in IT?

I’m pretty technical but the one thing I’ve sworn off is DIY email servers.

It’s not worth the pain.

You got it.

From a brand new account no less.

How does this stuff get in the front page?

Look, I’m all up for challenging PG’s essays and I think he has no problem with that, but this post is flat out garbage in every way.