What about Rails and Svelte? While many people are doing things with full stack Rails, there are just as many using Rails (whether as a monolith or separate backend from frontend deployments) with modern JS.
Actually, in recent Rails versions the mistakes of Webpacker have been replaced with much more flexible gems for building frontend assets with esbuild, vite, or any other build tool.
This gives the ability to seamlessly blend the nice pre packaged rails ecosystem with the nice ecosystem of react components or other modern frontend tooling most people are using.
I close this comment with mentioning: you still may not need all of that new stuff! What does your app actually do?
Tbh, if you're already using rails the odds that you'll need svelte / react are pretty low. Sometimes you might, and those pages can pull those in, but generally speaking you can do a lot with Turbo and Stimulus.
I mean, it just totally depends on the application. It does add complexity, sure.
Turbo, stimulus, have their own pitfalls. I have worked with them a fair amount and have ran into headaches. Also, React has a massive community / ecosystem of ready made components, plugins, tutorials, etc. Turbo and stimulus are getting better on that front, but it is nowhere close, and many situations/patterns you have to figure out yourself.
Theres weird hate on React from a portion of the rails community that seems unwarranted. Probably because of some of DHH's commentary.
Friends plural is slightly worrisome, but we're they qualified for the positions?
I personally love the idea of recruiting friends and working alongside them. Obviously I could see this going both ways, but given that everyone is qualified I don't see the problem.
The problem comes later where a friend-coworker is found to perform poorly/behaves inappropriately/slacks off etc. and has been given multiple warnings. You are now in a difficult position of having to prioritize either your professionalism or your personal relationship with them.
Given that friendships tend to last much longer than jobs I'd hazard a guess and say that most people would let the issue slide.
There's also the risk of cliques, concerns over unfairness in internal promotions and pay rises, and groupthink from being surrounded by like minded people to be worried about.
I have a similar thought, as I rarely become friends with incompetent people. If I were to launch a startup with my friends (that I have worked with over the years) that would be an incredibly competent core of engineers
You have the filter pointed the wrong way. I don't go through a list of friends and filter out people that are incompetent at their jobs, rather the competence filter results in only competent coworkers joining the friends list
People that are competent are more enjoyable to work with, so there is a higher likelihood of us becoming friends.
Incompetent people are annoying and I don't become friends with them
Did you not watch the Netflix documentary? The last episodes contained many non-obviously-sane conversations. Especially the one where he was talking to bankers at one of their vacation homes.
I’ve seen plenty of weird conversations in the workforce like leaders living in an alternate reality than direct reports to hawk their views, yet never felt motivated to call them mentally ill. I don’t judge how people feel they need to speak to relate to anybody, especially under the influence of alcohol as Kanye was in that segment.
I think if you follow along with Kanye, it is obvious it is beyond normal celebrity "insanity". I feel bad for him because I really grew up listening to his music and still have a soft spot in my heart for him, but he has some incredible delusions it would seem in the last 5-10 years.
My only complaints with the new LOTR and Game of Thrones shows is that they seem to be rushing through the story. Part of the appeal of the originals (movies... series.. respectively) is that they feel like more of a "quest" or long adventure, with side stories and character development. Obviously this made for longer content and it took years for GoT to finish, as well as LOTR being longer movies (especially with the extended cuts).
These new series seem to jump around time and traveling much quicker. Overall, I still am enjoying them though and don't understand a lot of the internet criticism.
> Critics, such as Robert J. Sampson and Stephen Raudenbush of Harvard University, see the application of the broken windows theory in policing as a war against the poor, as opposed to a war against more serious crimes.
I'm getting my take from how the idea is actually implemented and acted upon in reality in the US, not from how people claim it should be implemented as an ideology
>It was popularized in the 1990s by New York City police commissioner William Bratton and mayor Rudy Giuliani, whose policing policies were influenced by the theory.
Example of the absurdity of implementation:
>Throughout the late 1990s, NYPD shut down many of the city's acclaimed night spots for illegal dancing.
Tons of criticisms, not to mention it was partially popularized by an incredibly flawed study by the infamous Zimbardo
>However, other studies do not find a cause and effect relationship between the adoption of such policies and decreases in crime.[6][25] The decrease may have been part of a broader trend across the United States. The rates of most crimes, including all categories of violent crime, made consecutive declines from their peak in 1990, under Giuliani's predecessor, David Dinkins. Other cities also experienced less crime, even though they had different police policies
>Baltimore criminologist Ralph B. Taylor argues in his book that fixing windows is only a partial and short-term solution. His data supports a materialist view: changes in levels of physical decay, superficial social disorder, and racial composition do not lead to higher crime, but economic decline does. He contends that the example shows that real, long-term reductions in crime require that urban politicians, businesses, and community leaders work together to improve the economic fortunes of residents in high-crime areas.[42]
>According to a study by Robert J. Sampson and Stephen Raudenbush, the premise on which the theory operates, that social disorder and crime are connected as part of a causal chain, is faulty. They argue that a third factor, collective efficacy, "defined as cohesion among residents combined with shared expectations for the social control of public space," is the actual cause of varying crime rates that are observed in an altered neighborhood environment. They also argue that the relationship between public disorder and crime rate is weak.[44]
To be honest, Pandora has served that role for me over the years. I am always amazed to look back at my Pandora station history to see how it has evolved into different streams/genres, all stimulated from hearing new music through a Pandora channel, and then starting a new station after I liked it. This has created a web of new music I wouldn't have sought out otherwise.
Obviously, I do think that a human DJ may perform this role better in some cases/genres though.
Buying the Music Genome Project was one of the best purchases any company on this planet has ever made. https://www.pandora.com/about/mgp
I discovered a ton of fantastic music video Music Genome Project before the buy out, on some wonderful slick visualizations. The ability to transition this way & that around some base of music, to have a central idea & to be able to explore outwards, then come back, & transit out to another nearby genre, before coming back again... deeply compelling. MGP was great at broadening my listening horizons.
By contrast, it feels like most music services very quickly are like, "if you like this artist then you'll definitely like this ultra-popular heavily-played artist!" You're like 2 hops away from top 100 music, & they'll actively try to push you into the popular music. Please, I'd just listen to the radio if I wanted to be bored to death with pop music. Switch it up!
I'm a 70's-90's metal fan and once heard Ronnie James Dio 3 times in a row... all on different bands. Solo, Sabbath, and Rainbow =D Was fun but weird at the same time.
My favorite part of SomaFM is that I discover new artists (or get encouraged to go on a deep dive) fairly regularly. I've never bothered with Pandora or Spotify but the impression I get is that SomaFM is much better with the more niche genres.
I find the same. I feel more "weight" in a choice made by a human, who has their own "map" of the music and what connects it … so, I care to know about the choices made and why they were — the context of the choice.
I'm happier with a song pairing that has some arbitrary, personal history than one that's a logical walk down a relationship model.
Neopets for social engineering/scamming - converting "disposable" digital cameras into reusable (solder in a USB port, do...something to gain access to the memory to download files) was my introduction to hardware and firmware/software hacking and reverse engineering. Nowhere near enough of it stuck at the time, and I kinda wish I had gotten more in depth then, but ~19 years later those core interests have turned into skills...
