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by aj_g 14d ago
On Android I use the web browser "Tiny Browser". Chrome is disabled. The app is so comically basic, doesn't support tabs, so it works for the common task of needing to google something, but it makes it painful to do much more
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by aj_g 8mo ago
I remember some proto-memes about translation of some text between English and Chinese 100 times and the results being hilarious...modern parallel would be to ask a LLM to read the article, and generate the prompt that constructed the artic
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by aj_g 9mo ago
The answer is in the name. The word 'hacker' used to more refer to someone who is a tinkerer, diy engineer, curious about how systems, components, etc work. Hacker News is still somewhat true to this ethos, what's popular her
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by aj_g 1y ago
For several thousand repos? Ensuring none of the 451 package versions have been installed on any branch in any repo? I don't think it's so simple.
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by aj_g 1y ago
Anyone have a good solution to scan all code in our Github org for uses of the affected packages? Many of the methods we've tried have dead ended. Inability to reliably search branches is quite annoying here.
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by aj_g 1y ago
For real. It makes me feel like I'm coding in C++ again. I have the suspicion that many Next aficionados are using M12 Macs with 512GB RAM and don't know how bad the DX is on anything less than a bleeding edge machine.
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by aj_g 2y ago
I've saved a link to more or less every thought-provoking article I've read since the last 12 years (first in Evernote, and now Obsidian). I have two notes, one "links", the other "article notes", that's j
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by aj_g 3y ago
Great article, and this resonates a lot with how I've felt lately. I'm trying to include at least one "creative" task each day in my to-dos, because I notice I feel much much better if I have a multidisciplinary day--som
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by aj_g 3y ago
They're nice to be able to change up your position during the course of the day, but regardless of what you do, it's bad for your body to be in the same position for several in a row. You can throw some money at the problem, but h
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by aj_g 3y ago
Really cool angle. I'm curious how Youtube ranks on the amount of human knowledge or described experience compared to the whole (publically available) web. It's got to be pretty substantial.
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by aj_g 3y ago
To add to the list, clamp: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/01/modern-fluid-typogr... Such a nice property, makes responsiveness much easier to build in
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by aj_g 3y ago
A personal journaling web app that records my voice, sends it to a speech-to-text API, then sends that text to ChatGPT to rewrite it in a style of my choice (bulleted list, casual, professional, etc). Then saves that as a markdown file for
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by aj_g 3y ago
I would almost consider this a default package to use in a react application for server-side state. Any mildly complex UI will almost immediately need init/loading/error/data states, and you begin to write a wrapper that tren
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by aj_g 3y ago
For sure an influential engineering codex. Feels almost strange thinking about all the easy abstractions we have now for hosting, like Render or Vercel or that this was written in 2012, when web apps were much much more of a wild west in te
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by aj_g 3y ago
Beautiful. Does it ever feel challenging in any way, like you're fighting against a social norm?
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by aj_g 3y ago
Cheers, thanks. Pasted it from elsewhere and it got auto-ellipsis'd...
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by aj_g 4y ago
Great point, I feel often the same. The brain so often goes into a mode of "ah yeah, now is the time to google that one thing I was wondering earlier today", or "I just want to confirm this one small detail about thing X&quot
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by aj_g 4y ago
This is the best advice in the thread. If we don't have our health, what else do we have? Most people seem to agree there will never be a shortage of programming jobs, so I wouldn't worry about "staying ahead of the curve&quo
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by aj_g 4y ago
No kidding. I think part of the reason is also the huge amount of people flooding into dev roles, so having 2-4 years of experience puts you ahead of 70% (random number) of the other applicants, who all have 1-2 years, and you're relat
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by aj_g 5y ago
It would be an interesting experiment if commenting on all crypto related articles required you to disclose how many dollars(/euros/whatever) you have invested in crypto.
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by aj_g 5y ago
Related, does anybody have any suggestions for a cheap/large/easy to look at monitor that could be used for a digital picture frame? I was thinking of getting a Raspberry Pi to rotate through my photos in my home, but the hardest
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by aj_g 6y ago
Funny that this popped up on HN. I lived in Istanbul for a little bit and was perplexed by the number of cats, but for one reason or another it's not something I ever thought of actually Googling. Thanks for sharing!
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by aj_g 6y ago
Fascinating--do you have any links to further reading/watching about this?
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by aj_g 6y ago
Has anybody here experimented with coffee substitutes (such as https://www.cookinglight.com/good-food-fast/mud-wtr-mushroom... )?
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by aj_g 6y ago
Props to you. I am incredibly far away from the world of SV/FAANG, so tell me, is FB really becoming a less desirable place to work? It seems to me like it's a pretty small minority of people that would refuse a $1XX,000 paycheck
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by aj_g 7y ago
Super interesting theory. I think the implication here is a little bit unnerving though: if an individual has three "weird" views, and the most effective way to convert another individual is to only expose them to one of those thr
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by aj_g 7y ago
Agreed--I want to take trains, but when I can fly somewhere and buy 10x the carbon offsets for the difference between the plane/train costs, well...I'm going to fly.
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by aj_g 7y ago
Really cool project. How do you differentiate between things that have been too internalized/are too obvious and things that are worth writing down? i.e. you don't have a section for basic algebra, because I can only assume you kn
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by aj_g 8y ago
Agreed. I'm at a stage in my life where my median friend probably is between 'just entering the workforce' and maybe 2 years of experience (from uni). One reoccurring idea in my mind right now is the notion of 'selling o
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by aj_g 8y ago
this is the life I want. do you have a more detailed write-up on your life anywhere?

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