omarismail.bsky.social
Dad, married, staff engineer at Stripe. 2x startup founder (Streak YC S11).
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The nice thing is that it doesn’t have to be. It’s better than normal. Anyone reading that knows exactly what’s going on. And that’s the most important thing.
Normal is a proxy for easily understandable. But easy to understand is the actual goal.
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Take off the first two 9s.
$10M is enough to live a “normal” life but not have to work ever again.
Above that and you start living a very different life than a regular person.
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Just “age” opens the door for tons of questions:
- whose age?
- how will it be used?
- is it the only age? Are there other ages?
- is it a persons age? Or a fancy way of specifying a long time period?
There’s zero ambiguity with usersDemographicAgeForTracking
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Seriously makes no sense! AI should totally be used in interviews, and interview questions and assessments should be updated as a result.
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Got the same email. 🤞they start hiring in Canada/Waterloo or allow Canadian remote.
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It would be nice if she lived up to her stated values.
bellhs.ocdsb.ca/our-school-l... Principal's Message | Bell High School
What does she think anti-oppression and anti-racism is?
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It’s weird that all these kids are having their names printed but the adult professional principal does not.
It’s Jane Conrod
bellhs.ocdsb.ca/our-school-l... Staff | Bell High School
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I don't think BFFs are as common and popular as you may be thinking?
JS code on the server also isn't super common, particularly for backend developers that don't code in JS. Namely, Python/Go/Java/etc developers. A lot of them don't _want_ JS code on the server.
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But the full power of dynamic React Server Components require introducing a brand new execution "thing" into your setup, and that's a big deal operationally.
I hope he addresses that next.
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People did a similar thing with GraphQL and having proxy servers and such, but there was an easier onramp to GraphQL where your API server could import a GraphQL library and so it wasn't a separate process or execution environment, it was simply a different view of your API.
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Getting the compute nodes and plumbing setup between between client/React Server/API server is non-trivial.
People already wrestle with overly complicated build configs, now we're having an entirely new backend-thing running somewhere?
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How do I manage performance of this 2nd backend? How do I scale it up? Do I have to use a JS runtime? How does it work with my CDN?
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But React Server Components expose a new type of "backend". Dan has called this a "backend for frontend" - the difference is the the runtime of this 2nd backend for all intents and purposes, is your bundler.
This is weird and strange.
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In a typical web setup you have your client (what folks idiomatically refer to as the "React App") and a backend. The backend's main responsibility is usually getting data to and from a DB and communicating with the clients through APIs (rest, json, whatever).
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The Amish have it right!
The only honest work is the one that is born from our hands from soil to paper. “Machines” “advanced tools” - those are the devil’s work! It’s makes humanity lazy and soulless.
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Oh totally!
Just meant enacting this kind of change is easier when only 3 companies need to do it.
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It’s insane to me that people are just out there in essentially broad daylight committing these scam crimes.
This is one area where having oligopolies is actually beneficial!
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I mute/block the anti-AI folks. Total waste of time.
Of course I don't get any engagement on my posts anyway, so easy for me to do lol
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Dorohedoro?
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Evil. I think the word you’re looking for is evil.
Or monstrous.
Inhumane.
Psychopathic.
Sadistic.
Nazi-esque
Could-become-holocaust