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by billllll 8mo ago
It's less a binary pay/no pay, and more the value of accessing the dev tools. If you consider the fact that AI companies are most likely losing money running the models, then AI tools are incredibly cheap - they're in some
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by billllll 11mo ago
Unreadable slop and "tasteful" choices are independent of each other. You can make "tasteful choices" that makes code unreadable (I know from experience). Readability also has some level of objectiveness to it. There&#x2
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by billllll 11mo ago
Nothing that you talked about pertains to art. Writing good code does not mean you're making art. You shouldn't strive for internal consistency with yourself, you should strive for external consistency with the other developers in
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by billllll 11mo ago
Some of the worse engineers I've ever interacted with had too strong of a "taste" for what they felt were right and were completely unable or unwilling to work outside of that. Developing a superiority complex because you thi
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by billllll 1y ago
Paying for Internet is not a great analogy imo. If you don't pay $1k/mo for Internet, you literally can't work. What happens if you don't pay $1k/mo for Claude? Do you get an appreciable drop in productivity and out
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by billllll 1y ago
At the end of the day, they're subject to the same market forces. If the big publishers lose their shirts, that means small bloggers don't have any chance of making it big. The same market forces that make big publishers worse are
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by billllll 1y ago
I ride Muni, BART and Caltrain all the time (I'm car-free in SF), and I have no idea what you're talking about. Here are the actual statistics of crime per vehicle mile on Muni: https://www.sf.gov/data--crimes-muni
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by billllll 1y ago
Just because the shareholders didn't vote on it, or an exec didn't explicitly say "hey steal this" does not absolve the company. Leadership doesn't get to throw up their hands and say "not my fault" when s
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by billllll 1y ago
Anyone else hosting MCP servers in a generally available way? Seems like that's the end goal given the network transports (especially the one in new spec revision). Seems like everything I find requires running locally or hosting your
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by billllll 2y ago
VC funding is for sure less personal risk, but I don't think the other points are universally true. 1. Re: hiring, you're probably not going to hire your first FTE right after raising money. You're probably going to do so aft
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by billllll 2y ago
That's the reality of a lot of other degrees. Looks like it finally caught up to CS degrees.
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by billllll 2y ago
Is Rust praised for its checked errors? I've personally found it extremely verbose since there essentially is no possibility for unchecked errors. Also, external crates like "anyhow" are required if you don't want to acc
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by billllll 2y ago
How do you even "fix" loneliness? If you don't know that, you can't allocate resources. Plenty of research studies have been done on loneliness to find a silver bullet. For most people, it's not like there aren&#x27
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by billllll 2y ago
I really doubt "literally" every software you used or worked for has multiple competitors doing the "exact" same thing. VC money can temporarily prop up multiple competitors doing the same thing, but over time, winners d
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by billllll 2y ago
Unlike regular businesses, software scales infinitely and delivers immediately. You absolutely must have a "unique" selling point, even if it's just being cheaper. Otherwise, your competitors are just a click away. I'd a
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by billllll 2y ago
If you need to built quick, you can get all of this configured out-of-the-box with something like Supabase. If I had to set up all the roles and security myself, I don't know if I'd use it. The auth is workable - you can authn&#x2
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by billllll 2y ago
Am I missing something or is step 3 missing some steps to validate the JWT and define the current_user_id() function? Taking a look at the docs here: https://postgrest.org/en/v12/references/auth.html https:&
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by billllll 2y ago
More than existing chatbots? Curious what anecdotes you have, whether it be on the customer-side or the service-side.
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by billllll 2y ago
It's crazy how popular authoritarian demagogues have gotten around the world. His campaign, mannerism, and treatment of media and opposition can be a cut and paste of a bunch of different politicians of the world. At the end of the day
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by billllll 2y ago
Including those events would certainly change the picture. I don't like how the article implies that all this was a result of GitHub founders being smart rather than SourceForge misplaying their hand. The article smacks of the irration
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by billllll 2y ago
Curious how much of this is due to factors other than AI. The data is correlated, but at least for me, I'm not convinced of causation. Also, I'm kind of surprised at the customer service numbers. Chatbots existed before ChatGPT. A
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by billllll 2y ago
Didn't know Git had a bisect feature. I'll keep that in mind for later. Other than bisect though, I do think a lot of the practices outlined in the article (checking the blame, logs, search, etc) is way easier to do in a web UI, a
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The perfect codebase won't save your company(catalystmonitor.com)
1 points by billllll 2y ago|0 comments
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by billllll 3y ago
Bitbucket dropped Mercurial support in 2020: https://bitbucket.org/blog/sunsetting-mercurial-support-in-b... I just don't think there is good RoI for implementing Mercurial support. It really isn't about the
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by billllll 3y ago
I agree there doesn't seem to be a good connection between work on version control and work on code search. However, I don't think it makes sense to downplay git5. Anecdotally, basically everybody knew about it, and I'd const
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by billllll 3y ago
At the risk of being overly critical sour grapes, I really had tools like Monibot in mind when creating Catalyst. Out of the box, Monibot throws a bunch of data at you like database size, CPU %, requests, etc. None of these metrics really t
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by billllll 3y ago
Hey, so right now while it's under development, it's free. Quite frankly, I'm not too familiar with pricing for monitoring tools, so I'd love any suggestions here.
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by billllll 3y ago
> Very cool, is Next support planned? It's definitely in the pipeline! > How much traffic can it handle and what's the pricing for cloud? Can't find pricing on your site. So right now, it's still under development,
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by billllll 3y ago
You an see a (very quickly made) demo here: https://www.loom.com/share/5b38a328ded94f93a980f1ba28081329?...
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by billllll 3y ago
Thanks! Let get a demo video going. In the meantime, there are little snippets of the UI on https://www.catalystmonitor.com/ . It's a bit like Datadog in the sense that you do have dashboards but it doesn't monitor

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