AugustoCAS

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by AugustoCAS 2mo ago
To add - I agree that payments is great question for systems designs. Merchants need to receive the money and being able to transact with it. Imagine the merchant receiving the payment is something like Amazon or Ebay (sorry, I don't k
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by AugustoCAS 5mo ago
I'm waiting!
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by AugustoCAS 5mo ago
Thank you! Worth mentioning that setting this via effortLevel in .claude/settings.json does not work. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/35904
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by AugustoCAS 6mo ago
This is common across all corporations. My go-to example is Unilever or Nestle pushing products that are 100% unhealthy. In Asia, it's not uncommon to see healthy drinks for children that are sugar+artificial flavouring with huge marke
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by AugustoCAS 6mo ago
Are 'project rules' a thing? > .claude/rules/ .md Project rules > ~/.claude/rules/ .md User rules or is it just a way to organise files to be imported from other prompts?
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by AugustoCAS 6mo ago
Dora released a report last year: https://dora.dev/research/2025/dora-report/ The gains are ~17% increase in individual effectiveness, but a ~9% of extra instability. In my experience using AI assisted coding
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by AugustoCAS 8mo ago
This was easy because it's a Chinese company. The largest companies in this space that do similar this (oxylabs, brighdata,etc) have similar tactics but are based in a different location.
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by AugustoCAS 8mo ago
This is not an issue for me due to my workflow. I have a script for each of my projects that I run when I open a new terminal window (Alacritty). The scripts set up tmux with 3-8 terminals, each terminal launches a components, utility or j
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by AugustoCAS 11mo ago
A chunk of the internet is down for me. So far Perplexity, AWS (VPN) and vercel. Seems AWS is limping: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45640772
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by AugustoCAS 1y ago
Something that I find amusing in the Java community is that a good number of senior developers, with anything from 5-20 years of experience, who do 'tdd' have never heard of the concept of test doubles and religiously think that a
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by AugustoCAS 1y ago
A quick google shows this for FF (taken from a thread in StackOverflow): > In Firefox you can completely disable beforeunload events by setting dom.disable_beforeunload to true in about:config. Extensions may be needed for other browsers
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by AugustoCAS 1y ago
[posted this in another thread, but maybe the author can clarify this] I wonder how this works when one runs test in parallel (something I always enable in any project). By this I mean configuring JUnit to run as many tests as cores are ava
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by AugustoCAS 1y ago
I wonder how this works when one runs test in parallel (something I always enable in any project). By this I mean configuring JUnit to run as many tests as cores are available to speed up the run of the whole test suite. I took a peek at th
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by AugustoCAS 1y ago
A side comment, I have found that configuring a few live templates in IntelliJ helps me to write a lot of the repetitive code just a handful of keystrokes regardless of the language. Structural refactoring is another amazing feature that is
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by AugustoCAS 2y ago
Would love to know if you found it's a real key or a fake one.
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by AugustoCAS 3y ago
I find a bit odd that MS didn't have a couple of people in the board of directors, who I assume accepted Sam Altman resignation (and signed the severance package). Edit: I just read he was fired, but the point remains.
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by AugustoCAS 3y ago
I had the same problem (there's a github issue about this: https://github.com/canonical/microk8s/issues/2186 ). I swapped to k3s and the usage was half of what microk8s used.
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by AugustoCAS 3y ago
I have the strong impression that most people confound cloud to be public only. Private clouds are fine and deliver a lot of the flexibility at a big % discount of a public cloud. The big gain from clouds is the flexible infrastructure, esp
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by AugustoCAS 3y ago
I only skimmed through the article, but if I understood correctly the scammers made $23m, now have to repay $3.3m (which probably will never happen) and some of their assets were taken. They were given 4 and 6 year prison sentences (which m
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by AugustoCAS 3y ago
Thanks for sharing this! I'm just getting my head around category theory (in Haskell). I would appreciate if anyone knows of a small project out there that uses category theory to learn how to design and architect a solution (even bett
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by AugustoCAS 3y ago
Just saw this on LinkedIn posted by the author of the paper. He claims that with this, RSA 2048 can easily be broken. There's not much information about this yet, but if true it will accelerate the end of RSA. Post to the linked in pos
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Quantum Computing breaks 10^1000 decimal digits cryptography in a cellphone(researchgate.net)
4 points by AugustoCAS 3y ago|5 comments
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Are leaders sexier than managers?(economist.com)
1 points by AugustoCAS 3y ago|1 comments
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by AugustoCAS 3y ago
https://archive.ph/G11qB Sharing this as I experienced a lot of friction over the years with startups/scaleups that did the transition to (heavy) management too early and as a consequence there was a lot of wasted effo
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by AugustoCAS 3y ago
Link for those who are curious: https://github.com/IAmStoxe/oracle-free-tier-wirehole . Thanks for sharing that repo. I have a similar setup, but with each service in its own compose file as I added them over time. I w
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by AugustoCAS 3y ago
It's a good question! Coaching is about helping people find their own answers. One needs to know about a topic when giving specific advice / guidance. Having said that, for me building technology has 2 challenges: people and techn
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by AugustoCAS 3y ago
I would love the Linux Foundation to add a clause on the licensing of the kernel saying "This software cannot be used inside the EU and applies retroactively" and see the surprised pikachu face of the MEPs who voted on this. I can
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by AugustoCAS 3y ago
A variation of "what are you going to do?" or "how would you solve X?" helps the IC to come up with a plan of how to address the feature/issue/whatnot. This creates space for them to take the initiative and aft
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by AugustoCAS 3y ago
Peopleware is a gem of a book, yet most managers and leaders in the tech world haven't heard of it (or at least never read it). A recent example from my last gig: the way of working was to shuffle people relentlessly between teams to a
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by AugustoCAS 3y ago
Being an awesome manager is not about delegating, it's a about * Creating the right environment for teams to do their best (See book Leading Teams below). * Being skillful at challenging pre-conceptions. * Coaching people and teams to

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