> Intellij git integration in comparison, in my opinion, it's barely usable and generally counter intuitive.
You're going to have to explain that one to me. I don't know what part of `ctrl+k`, comment, `ctrl+enter` to commit is difficult. Keeps my hands on the keyboard and head in the code. Time to push? `ctrl+shift+k`. Update? `ctrl+t`.
I have yet to find any IDE that performs as well as IntelliJ et al.
Between opening up with "Over the years, well-intentioned people experimented with adding meaning to those numbers..." and a reference to Hyrum's Law, your article definitely reads as a criticism of SemVar and pins it as a failed process. It isn't until 1/3 of the way through that you call out the actual failure in the process: The user. Personally, I think the 'failure' of Semvar is in large part the fault of the Node community and their lack of rigor in their releases. SemVar works fine if used correctly.
That's not part of the article, but I indeed think that a process that (almost) nobody applies correctly, is not a good process. Telling people to just try harder is never the solution to anything.
I acknowledge the value of SemVer both here and in the article, but in the practical world it simply does not deliver the value that its proponents claim and users have to deal with it. The article is supposed to help with that.
I once wrote a python module that applied diff patches as a part of the deployment process. This let us 'fix' libraries we depended on without having to maintain a full fork until the maintainer fixed the bug. If a new version came down, we could test the patch and update it if needed.
Then the problem is with you. You wrote code that had a dependency on a specific non-guaranteed feature (the bug) and then feel jilted b/c they changed the non-guaranteed feature. What you should have done was written defensive code and tests around the NGF so that when it changed, your tests would catch that and either not upgrade or allow you the chance to fix it.
I don’t feel any negative feelings towards the library developers. I have my versions locked so these unexpected surprises don’t happen. In this case it would have been extremely difficult for me to have noticed that the behaviour seen was not intended and supported by the developers.
My point is not that this is an unsolvable problem, but that it’s not a good idea to go “semver says this is non breaking, let’s just chuck it in production”
"Personalized Ads for Small Businesses" What a bunch of malarkey. I've worked in ad space and the actual ability for SB's to compete is laughable. Their budgets are so comparatively small that they simply don't get the assistance necessary. They're drinking through paper straws while the big dogs swim in lakes.
SB's absolutely need a platform to compete, but I'm absolutely incredulous that FB is that platform, much less Google or any other like company.
My GF built a small business with $12K MRR on top of Facebook and uses Facebook/Instagram ads. Apparently there are swarms of businesses like hers; buying and selling crystals.
I am against Facebook, but they are not lying at all. Facebook’s walled garden offers a robust advertising platform for small businesses that actually evens the field.
I do programmatic advertising on top of the open web, and your experience is correct there, but FB is different.
I know of a small business in upstate NY that gets 80% of their sales from FB ads. Without FB, this business which also has a retail store, would certainly be having a lot more of a rough time. And they are not an isolated story. I know of at least 5 other small businesses that similarly generate from 25% to 70% of sales via FB. It's given these small businesses a way to compete against bigger competitors.
The impact of these changes on FB ads depends on what kind of ads you run - VBO, AAA, and LAL will be challenged. But interest, geo, and demo targeting will continue as is. None of these iOS changes affect FB’s ability to serve ads, nor small business’ ability to run ads and find customers. It’s the tracking of activity and the deeper funnel events that is changing, not advertising for small business
FB and Adwords is fine, just apply a large dose of skepticism to any data they provide that you’re not able to verify yourself. For example Facebook will vastly over attribute conversions to itself, even if other channels have done the heavy lifting.
Small business is just a propaganda tool. The idea has some allure, maybe because it reminds Americans of their priomordial beginning as settlers, homesteaders, yeomans, craftsmen (or so the stories go).
You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=community%20identity%20by:dang...
In real numbers most businesses in the US are "small businesses" because they have 500 or fewer employees. It says nothing about their financials though. A hedge fund managing billions of dollars, a start up with millions in VC funding, and a mom and pop florist are all "small businesses".
I'm definitely not disagreeing "small business" has been turned into a propaganda term. That process was helped by the silly tax classification of what's a "small business". A lot of marketing dollars go into making people think the mom and pop florist when they hear the term and not the hedge fund.
It's a 'Good Thing' until you lose 4 hours worth of work because of an unprompted and unstoppable update. There are very much indeed unprompted upgrades. There's also all of the reverted settings and re-installed applications. I don't want or need 'People' and 'Weather' and 'Xbox' and all the rest. Please leave them off, thank you very much.
That just makes Google sound risk averse. Given some of their business models and decisions over the last 5 years, I don't think that's the case. Given the quality of those products over the last 5 years, I might be inclined to question the nature and/or quality of the engineers being hired. Or maybe it's further up the ladder?
Try Hound. It's faster than anything I've tried and it's context management is just impressive as hell. The echos lack of negative clauses is really really frustrating.
You're going to have to explain that one to me. I don't know what part of `ctrl+k`, comment, `ctrl+enter` to commit is difficult. Keeps my hands on the keyboard and head in the code. Time to push? `ctrl+shift+k`. Update? `ctrl+t`.
I have yet to find any IDE that performs as well as IntelliJ et al.