austin-cheney

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by austin-cheney 3d ago
> Another thing I'm always looking for is tails that could wag the dog. The history of startups is full of these. Paypal started out doing security for hand-held devices. They created Paypal as a demo of their security software. But
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by austin-cheney 3d ago
Self-hosting and containerized applications. There is still a lot of innovation happening.
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by austin-cheney 3d ago
For strictly personal stuff, like my home network, isolate behind a router to block all outside traffic. Then install a VPN on your home server so that you can remote in via a tunnel. I use TailScale's free tier and its great. If tha
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by austin-cheney 3d ago
* Business analyst and Scrum Master * Test Automation Engineer If you want to remain technical I strongly advocate for the second option. It can be super technical and if you end up in an organization where the primary developers suck at w
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by austin-cheney 5d ago
Absolutely an ad company, 100% without question.
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by austin-cheney 5d ago
That is true, but it’s also why most industries require licensing and/or certifications. These things are not 100% effective, but are still excellent at removing disqualified candidates.
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by austin-cheney 5d ago
> I dont see the correlation between company type (tech/software/X company) and sucking at your job though. The difference is in culture and expectations. People can suck when they are allowed or expected to suck. They can’t su
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by austin-cheney 5d ago
I worked at Expedia for a bit. Ask yourself if they are a tech company, software company, or travel company. It’s not a trick question. They have a shit ton of software developers that work there. Same with Bank of America where I also work
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by austin-cheney 6d ago
In the corporate software world, especially anything to do with the web both front and back, most people really don’t know what they are doing. The goal is hiring/firing and agile. Compare that to companies that release actual software
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by austin-cheney 7d ago
> Superintelligence is the still-theoretical notion of an AI agent that is smarter than even the sharpest human minds. When are we supposed to see this materialize?
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by austin-cheney 7d ago
SMTP is not a user interface. It’s just text from RFC821/822
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by austin-cheney 12d ago
While that can certainly be true it is still generally safer than username/password for authentication.
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by austin-cheney 12d ago
Hasn't poor training always been the status quo? It's not just the front end, and its not just JavaScript. It's the web application space in a more general sense, because I am also looking at all those Java developers maint
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by austin-cheney 14d ago
My last job was API integration related on a government contract. I was the team lead for one of two prime vendors. The lead for the other prime vendor was also the projects project manager. That PM was super toxic. So the clients wanted me
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by austin-cheney 15d ago
Congestion tolls are not the universal good some people claim. I suppose that wasn’t clear from my comment.
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by austin-cheney 15d ago
New York has excellent mass transit and high population density, so you have options besides using a car or can walk to meet up for a car pool. These options just don't exist here. So charging people a penalty without providing alter
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by austin-cheney 15d ago
I am so envious of DC and Chicago for their metro systems. It's always interesting to talk to people who live in those locations and take their mass transit for granted, like a spoiled entitlement. Here if you don't have a car y
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by austin-cheney 15d ago
My city is growing at about 25,000 people per year. Just take a second to run some numbers in your head to let that sink in. In 1990 this city was the 29th largest city in the US and now it is the 10th. By 2050 it is projected to be the
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by austin-cheney 16d ago
The last interview I went to looked like this: So this company wanted to replace MuleSoft with a home grown solution using TypeScript and Node.js. The primary reasons were the high costs of MuleSoft and the inability to pivot from MuleSofts
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by austin-cheney 16d ago
I did not know what to look for, so I looked at the list to see what is in there and had no idea what I was looking at. I am making a lot of assumptions and don't know how any of this works. * It appears the dats_dates.txt file is a l
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by austin-cheney 17d ago
Go into medicine, not software. Let that guide what you read.
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by austin-cheney 17d ago
Search for Texas castle doctrine. The intention is to provide extreme deterrence against home invasion crimes. The liability for shooting a person, for any reason, in Texas outside the home is much greater.
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by austin-cheney 18d ago
I think the opposite. The best outcome for everyone is continuous growth and accomplishment of goals. Inaction only solves one important problem: comfort. The focus on comfort as a primary objective tends to be the quest of high neurotic
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by austin-cheney 18d ago
My experience as a long time corporate software developer is an exceptionally heavy bias towards inaction. There always seems to be fear and hesitation towards any kind of pivot or new initiative outside the rails of comfort. For example
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by austin-cheney 18d ago
The AI game amplifies programmings biggest problem: maturity. Simply put there are developers that can write original solutions to challenging problems but most people employed to write software are paid the same and cannot write original s
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by austin-cheney 18d ago
Try blocks are a performance handicap that throws its containing function out of jit compilation. As such try blocks should be limited to critical decisions only that would otherwise halt the application.
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by austin-cheney 20d ago
They really don't have to call a group far left or far right in their justification, because it sounds like weak credibility in search of social support. They could just call them a criminal organization seeking directly, or indir
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by austin-cheney 21d ago
The 2 year Stack 4 plan at DreamHost is $6/month for a root level access VPS with your choice of OS. After the 2 year sale it shoots up to $11/month.
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by austin-cheney 24d ago
There is an annoying phenomenon with LLMs called "context dilution" or "attention dilution" that was outlined in the Lost in the Middle paper. As the context grows, a model starts paying less attention to instructions i
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by austin-cheney 24d ago
It seems this is poor advice in that it’s suggesting young people should focus on the current problem as opposed to future problems. Focus on the current problem can result in making some money but it will result in making the incumbents mo

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