amackera

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by amackera 8mo ago
I'm generally in favor of "Show HN" posts that are products, but this post just seems like blatant advertising.
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by amackera 10mo ago
To me it seems more like a lot of _thinking_ just to save a tiny bit of thinking. It was a fun read though, and obviously this exercise is not about efficiency so much as exploring an interesting idea.
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by amackera 10mo ago
TOS != law They will stop letting you use the service. That's the recourse for breaking the TOS.
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by amackera 1y ago
Can you expand on why you avoid Rails? I'm legitimately curious! Edit: I see your other replies, nvm!
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by amackera 1y ago
Very worrying. This outage is serious and we're getting almost nothing from the official channels.
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by amackera 1y ago
I've got a great setup going with Emacs and Aidermacs[1]. I just can't stand using VS Code, it's impossible to configure to my liking. [1]: https://github.com/MatthewZMD/aidermacs
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by amackera 2y ago
Less "Firing yourself" and more like liberating yourself from a toxic unprofessional clown show.
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by amackera 2y ago
I love Temporal-- we use it at my company. It's very very good for our use case, but took a while to understand how to use it. We're still figuring things out (Workflow versioning is one thing we suck at still). That said, I'
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by amackera 2y ago
This is the kind of gen AI that I can really get behind. Great repo and easy to understand with the attached video. Is such a thing possible for Python? Or does the AST parser and code planner work best with static typing?
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by amackera 2y ago
People aren't static, nor are companies or roles within them. Treating every person as unchanging and treating the requirements of each level in the hierarchy as unchanging are just plain bad assumptions to make. People grow. Companies
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by amackera 3y ago
Part of the point of reconciliation is to accept unequivocally the sovereignty of indigenous peoples. Is it not morally questionable to ignore indigenous peoples' sovereign rights (over fishing, forests, lands, etc.) as we have been do
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by amackera 3y ago
And hopefully all of us plebs as well? I might be too optimistic about the future of AI.
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by amackera 3y ago
This sounds nice, and the information on https://www.anthropic.com/company seems to back up your claim, but do you know of anything on Anthropic's corporate governance level that will help ensure this mission is follow
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by amackera 3y ago
SICP is an amazing book that will make you a better programmer, but might not help you with the task of writing better professional Python programs. If you aspire to understand computing systems from first-principles, there's no better
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by amackera 3y ago
I'm failing to see how the rewrite you mentioned delivered any value _to Netscape_.
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by amackera 3y ago
Right, but sort of the point of this article is that launching a long rewrite that delivers no value doesn't help the business aka it's NOT everybody working together. It's the tech team going off working by themselves.
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by amackera 3y ago
They also reinforce their reputation of using dark UI patterns hostile to their paying customers. This type of thing doesn't come for free, IMO. There's a cost to this, even if they don't pay it in the short term.
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by amackera 3y ago
Still waiting for the string of articles about the superyachts that all the bank executives bought after the 2009 bailouts. /sarcasm
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by amackera 3y ago
Do any of the web accessibility issues come up for other platforms as well? How does the iOS screenreader handle Flutter-generated views on iOS? "It doesn't seem like the Semantic HTML issue will ever be solved too, the Flutter t
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by amackera 3y ago
A feature for who?
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by amackera 3y ago
Well, if that's what the research shows than the effort wasn't "wasted". Don't confuse your opinions with facts.
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by amackera 4y ago
What does Software Engineering actually mean then?
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by amackera 4y ago
Before you did agile, were there ever death marches, slipped deadlines, pissed off clients, or long crunches? Your comment has the sparkle of nostalgia for glory days gone by.
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by amackera 4y ago
Not everything in life has to be "fun". Sometimes important things aren't fun to do, but we do them because they are important. Seeking endless fun is vain and meaningless. Doing meaningful work requires discipline and persev
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by amackera 4y ago
JVM is easily one of the best runtimes out there by any objective measure. (JVM != Java, remember)
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by amackera 4y ago
These types of fails are generally due to incompetence, in my experience.
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by amackera 4y ago
Probably because a lot of pen testing is security theatre.
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by amackera 4y ago
As a counter example: I've seen that plenty of times. PhDs too.
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by amackera 4y ago
Minus the whole slavery thing, no?
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by amackera 4y ago
Super excited to see this! Clojure is an absolutely delightful language to use professionally (not to mention insanely productive). I've heard great things about Flutter and Dart also from people I trust and admire.

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