Alan01252

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by Alan01252 9mo ago
I've been heavily vibe coding for a couple of personal projects. A free kids typing game and bringing back a multiplayer game I played a lot as a kid back to life both with pretty good success. Things I personally find work well. 1. Ch
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Show HN: I vibe coded a free typing game for my kids(free-kids-typing-games.com)
5 points by Alan01252 9mo ago|1 comments
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by Alan01252 3y ago
I would really love to pick your brains on this. Did you do anything special with Frigate to do the stream processing ( hardware offloading etc? ) or was it simply plug and play.
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by Alan01252 3y ago
Are you saying that chatgpt wouldn't be able to achieve the digestible bites you're talking of? In which case, at what point do they become digestible? Is that not dependent on the skill of the person doing the digesting? and up t
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by Alan01252 3y ago
A master crafts person in any field can not become an expert without years of practice and repetition. Should we therefore always just outsource tasks because the work could do be done faster? does that mean that the experience of doing som
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by Alan01252 3y ago
There exists a plethora of real world coding challenges that are beyond typical boilerplate code that ChatGPT has in my experience been able to produce entirely acceptable working solutions for. The skill of the engineering manager is indee
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Should junior engineers be worried about AI?(alanhollis.com)
2 points by Alan01252 3y ago|6 comments
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by Alan01252 9y ago
I'm curious to what this means for the existing puppet code base, is it now irrelevant, or are there still usages for it in the k8s world?
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by Alan01252 10y ago
Out of curiosity ( because we use pm2 here, and it works well ) why would you doubt them using those solutions?
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by Alan01252 10y ago
I don't think ones better than the other per say. It's just different. I've been in meetings in a room full of people knowing that absolutely no one wants to be there, and no one really knows what they're doing there. I&
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by Alan01252 10y ago
Who said anything about building a product. 1. Find niche on facebook 2. Find appropriate nice product with affiliate scheme 3. Harvest Emails 4. Send email with product ( low conversion, but who cares? ) 5. Repeat
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by Alan01252 10y ago
And perhaps they're using simulations to better understand how they came to be...
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by Alan01252 10y ago
I'm using debug logging ( that isn't deleted ) more and more as I code. It's useful not only for solving the current problem you're experiencing but also helps the next person understand what the code is/isn't
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by Alan01252 11y ago
I'm assuming you get a lot of support financially from your partner / have a big runway? I can't imagine living on £9k a year without such? How do you survive? edit: I Worry this comment comes across the wrong way. I've
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by Alan01252 11y ago
The reduction in hours has allowed me to do activities which overall make me happier and less inclined to drink. I now do a lot of running and bodyweight fitness. Drinking decreases my performance in those two activities and so I tend not t
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by Alan01252 11y ago
Purely anecdotal I know, but since giving up my job in the city and going freelance I have indeed spent far less time drinking and far more time exercising. A quick one after work was far too common. I buckled far too easily to peer pressur
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by Alan01252 11y ago
I try to at least have the slow query log on and monitored in staging. It's pretty easy to forget an index and not notice in a dev environment.
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by Alan01252 11y ago
This reminded me of this http://hnalerts.com/ . I think it still works. Mind you it's been a long time since I've submitted anything that made it to the front page. ;)
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by Alan01252 12y ago
The pull request is better: https://github.com/composer/composer/pull/3482
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Hacker news London returns(alanhollis.com)
3 points by Alan01252 12y ago|0 comments
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by Alan01252 13y ago
Complaining is the wrong word. I'm aware more than ever now that what I earn is entirely in my hands and my ability to sell myself. Having the confidence in you're own ability in order to sell yourself for more money is what I was
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by Alan01252 13y ago
I turned over ~$80k in my first year freelancing. This year will be substantially higher. Battling against imposter syndrome and finding out how much your worth to a company/business is one of the hardest things about freelancing. I st
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by Alan01252 13y ago
We've just started using this where I'm currently working, and it definitely makes a lot of sense. There's a command line tool which helps you keep to this branching model. Available here. https://github.com/n
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by Alan01252 13y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER - Central London UK - On site preferred Two experienced PHP contractors required for three months to assist with the development of new internal systems. I am posting on behalf of a second tier data and communications pro
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by Alan01252 13y ago
How I got work as a freelancer in one month. Created an on line presence/blog. Wrote about skills I have on blog. Posted some programming posts. Went to Craigslist / Gumtree. Emailed people looking for people with skills I had. Na
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by Alan01252 13y ago
It was approximately £20 a week. In the summer I used to walk which took around 40 minutes so I spent a little less.
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by Alan01252 13y ago
I lived comfortably in zone 2 on £40k a year. I was paying £250 a week rent for a one bedroom flat in a complex with gym + pool in zone 2. Rent prices are a little higher than they were two years ago now though!
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by Alan01252 13y ago
No longer full time, but I thought I'd share my salary journey. Graduated ( computer network management and design ) working in Portsmouth started on £16k (software developer). Three years with the same company progressed to £25k. Moved to
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by Alan01252 13y ago
Yet a year ago despite having the charge more mantra instilled in me by this community I was still charging too little. It wasn't until I realised that even very small companies could afford ( without hesitation ) the rate I was charging th
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My first year freelancing(alanhollis.com)
174 points by Alan01252 13y ago|64 comments

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