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by bmcahren 6mo ago
It's easy with hindsight to believe you could have capped expense at 200% medicare but getting what we got passed was nearly impossible at the time. Before Affordable Care Act, insurers had every tool available to deny care, maximize p
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by bmcahren 6mo ago
Those with a bit more experience understand faster is not always better. Databases thought to be battle-tested encounter incredibly complex and near impossible to predict failures of the most absurd kind. You can go back and look at some cr
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by bmcahren 6mo ago
LLMs do not encode nor encrypt their training data. The fact they can recite training data is a defect not a default. You can understand this more simply by calculating the model size as an inverse of a fantasy compression algorithm that is
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by bmcahren 10mo ago
This is an historic moment in AI-generated software history. Happy to be here. Hi Grandchildren! FYI, I built a VERY fun prompt to interact with that fully captures the style of this PR submission if you're looking to practice debates
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by bmcahren 10mo ago
MongoDB Atlas was around 500% more expensive than in-house every time I evaluated it (at almost every scale they offer as well). They also leaned too heavily on sharding as a universal solution to scaling as opposed to leveraging the minima
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by bmcahren 11mo ago
A huge benefit of single-database operations at scale is point-in-time recovery for the entire system thereby not having to coordinate recovery points between data stores. Alternatively, you can treat your queue as volatile depending on the
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by bmcahren 1y ago
Missed a huge opportunity to play the sound of a monstrous wooden door sound when the lid closes. Looking forward to the update!
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by bmcahren 1y ago
I think the other important step is to reject code your engineers submit that they can't explain for a large enterprise saas with millions of lines of code. I myself reject I'd say 30% of the code the LLMs generate but the power i
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by bmcahren 1y ago
This was a good read and great work. Can't wait to see the performance tests. Your write up connected some early knowledge from when I was 11 where I was trying to set up a database/backend and was finding lots of cgi-bin online.
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by bmcahren 1y ago
So there's this thing called "Setup Scripts" but they don't explicitly say these are equivalent to AWS Metadata and configured inside of Codex web interface - not a setup.sh or a package.json preinstall declaration. I wa
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by bmcahren 1y ago
Counter-point A: AI coding assistance tools are rapidly advancing at a clip that is inarguably faster than humans. Counter-point B: AI does not get tired, does not need space, does not need catering to their experience. AI is fine being int
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by bmcahren 1y ago
I'm pro-accessibility and have contributed privately to blind developer initiatives. Unfortunately Ubisoft insists on implement user-hostile accessibility that screams at the user using voice-to-text when they open their games and is q
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by bmcahren 1y ago
From day one. We would have had LLMs years before if Google wasn't holding back. They knew the risk - google search would be dead as soon as the internet were flooded with AI content that google could not distinguish from real content.
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by bmcahren 1y ago
I am going to cite you in a decade. Already today ChatGPT is _far_ better than Google. Instead of finding a keyword optimized page for "frob language", I can get the objectively best sources for frob language and even find the bes
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by bmcahren 2y ago
This is actually perfect for AI robots to blend in waiting in public. Just like bartenders polishing glasses, you can't have them just staring making people uncomfortable.
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by bmcahren 2y ago
Location: Miami/Ft. Lauderdale Area, Florida Remote: Yes Relocate: No Tech: Node.js, MongoDB, TypeScript, React, GitHub Workflow/Actions Skills: Tech leadership, product vision, knowing what users want, aligning user
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by bmcahren 2y ago
Your TV, amplifier, or sound bar should have a night mode that does this for you.
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by bmcahren 2y ago
Google is becoming less useful in many ways. Their "push for AI adoption" in sheets and docs proves they no longer know how to build products people want to use and must use tactics like this to farm engagement. They are playing t
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by bmcahren 2y ago
If I'm not mistaken it was a factor in recruiting in general as evidenced by another leak.
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by bmcahren 2y ago
I'll bandwagon on chat.com getting 10% or higher marketshare. Look back at Google search's 800 number; https://techcrunch.com/2013/05/12/google-kills-sms-search/ (the only article I could find)
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by bmcahren 2y ago
Their first example is basically pretending basic promise concurrency on maps doesn't exist when it's been around before Promises were an official API (Search: bluebird promise map concurrency) And the third examples are much easi
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by bmcahren 2y ago
Node.js pipe and map are standard implementations most developers understand. I do not know what these strange implementations are from this library. They do not make sense to me. That's what I mean. Why learn 3 different meanings of p
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by bmcahren 2y ago
I'm not sure I know the use case for all of this logical complexity. Is there a specific use-case you had in mind? Split the array of elements to process. Set up a promise.all against a function that handles sync/async function ca
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by bmcahren 2y ago
Location: South Florida / Miami / Ft Lauderdale / West Palm Beach Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Email: brentmcahren@gmail.com Resume: Available upon request via email. I've had some great luck finding talent on Hac
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by bmcahren 2y ago
Try living downtown in South Florida.
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by bmcahren 2y ago
SKULabs | UI Designer & UX Engineer (React) | $100k-$160k | Full-Time | On-site | South Florida (Miami / Ft Lauderdale Area) SKULabs helps ecommerce companies scale their operations. Since 2014, our founder has commanded SKULabs of
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by bmcahren 2y ago
SKULabs ( https://www.skulabs.com ) | Full-Stack Developer (Node.js, React) | South Florida | ONSITE | 100k-160k | Full-time Salary We're looking for additional Node.js and React developers to join our team. SKULabs helps eco
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by bmcahren 3y ago
SKULabs | UX Designer | $100k-$160k | Full-Time | On-site | South Florida (Miami / Ft Lauderdale Area) SKULabs helps ecommerce companies scale their operations. Since 2014, our founder has commanded SKULabs offer the best customer serv
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by bmcahren 3y ago
SKULabs | Node.js React Developer | $120k-$160k | Full-Time | On-site | Miami, Florida USA SKULabs helps ecommerce companies scale their operations. Since 2014, our founder has commanded SKULabs offer the best customer service and no annual
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by bmcahren 3y ago
I was once speaking with a group of AAA game developers at Steam Dev Days discussing how to balance random interactions with gameplay. I think everyone with me had worked on larger teams and discussed complex solutions to create balance. My

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