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by codingdave 7mo ago
"Coding (Web Apps) on popular tech stacks is solved" We can go farther on that fix.
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by codingdave 7mo ago
Yes. The tolerance for slow-loading pages has shrunk dramatically since the early days of the web. Admittedly, 20 seconds was pushing it and people tried to reduce image sizes and such things to make it faster. But I recall in the late 90s,
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by codingdave 7mo ago
If anyone wants to read the source article, not the reddit comments: https://archive.ph/ZVKuH
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by codingdave 7mo ago
Sometimes the PTB will give a post another chance at the front page when they feel it was a good post that deserved more attention that it got when originally submitted, and it behaves exactly like this - the time resets on the post and com
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by codingdave 7mo ago
No, the opposite is true. If you are building something good, you can do it even easier as a solo dev. The only people who will get shut down by all this is the people whose ideas were low quality, and whose only value was "I can code
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by codingdave 7mo ago
I have yet to meet a front-end dev that gets hostile when you show them how their code can be improved. On the contrary, the folks I have worked with are thrilled to improve their craft. Unless of course you are not showing them improvement
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by codingdave 7mo ago
Pay your tech people. It is truly that simple. If you can keep enough money flowing to pay people and keep the lights on, you proved your value. If you cannot, maybe you actually are just the idea guy. You need to be asking yourself how you
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by codingdave 7mo ago
I'm all for renewal of a system that is not effective, but the problem with villainizing the entire mental health industry is related to this quote from the article: "If psychiatry were successfully identifying and treating underl
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by codingdave 7mo ago
What I see is new users who are trying to share something without having yet understood HN. I get the impression that they think of "Show HN" as no different than "Show and Tell", and that putting the label on their post
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by codingdave 7mo ago
So the author is basically crowdsourcing a pen test for free?
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by codingdave 7mo ago
> ignorant, low-information HN users who don't understand the basics of how finance works I though HN was a site that welcomed people of all levels of knowledge and shared thoughts, ideas, and resources to help people learn so we ca
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by codingdave 7mo ago
I've worked in governance for the last 15 years. Based on that experience, nobody truly cares about the UX to signify a decision. They care about the communication of the information to make the decision in the first place. So you migh
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by codingdave 7mo ago
In my mind, it isn't about any specific expectation. Events like this are interesting because the cracks are starting to show when a company follows the "fire as many people as possible, run lean, integrate AI" strategy. The
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by codingdave 7mo ago
This is nowhere near a "Show HN": https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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by codingdave 7mo ago
Around me, cranberries are another crop where large farms will own thousands of acres. And there are some large dairies that grow the food for their herds as well as give them grazing space. There are no lack of commodity farmers in my stat
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by codingdave 7mo ago
Or don't. It has been made fairly clear that AI-generated content isn't on-topic for HN. Now, if you have written a product that is successful and want to share that success, and just happenned to vibe-code it, that is a different
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by codingdave 7mo ago
Carving up farmland into home plots is easier said than done. Most fields have zero infrastructure, so you need to drill wells, run power lines, streets and/or ROW for driveways. Internet access is pretty easy as you get get a fiber li
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by codingdave 7mo ago
80 acres sounds big to people who don't live in the country, but is fairly small potatoes when it come to agricultural land. Such parcels will get consolidated into nearby large operations/corporations. Sometimes that is a corpora
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by codingdave 7mo ago
It doesn't matter one bit what other SaaS founders are saying. What matters is what your customers are saying. Are they happy with the feature set? Then you are fine. Don't over-engineer a product just to keep up with founders who
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by codingdave 7mo ago
> Slack has been on a slow rachet up in prices and has struggled to introduce compelling new AI features I can think of a few reasons that Slack could be improved upon. But a lack of AI features is not on that list. Slack is effective fo
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by codingdave 7mo ago
I recommend reading the letter. Many of the comments here seem to have missed that the comment of "the world is in peril" is not referring to AI, but to the larger collection of crises going on in the world. It sounds to me like s
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by codingdave 7mo ago
Again: "Corporate exec who will benefit financially if everyone uses AI wants everyone to use AI." Microsoft is in trouble if their huge investment in AI doesn't pay off, so any of their execs are going to be parroting the co
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by codingdave 7mo ago
Actual Title: Call for more Snowflake proxies!
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by codingdave 7mo ago
It is Austen Allred's latest iteration of Lambda school/BloomTech. I guess that makes this their 3rd rebranding. I'd say the consensus is that it is a big scam. He has been smacked down by the feds and ordered to shut down in
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by codingdave 7mo ago
From the guidelines: "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity." https://news.ycombinator.com/n
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by codingdave 7mo ago
Basically, you are asking if people would like filters on their feeds. Yeah, sure, that seems like a good concept. But at the same time, it is a terrible idea for a new product - the second you show traction, the underlying platforms will j
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by codingdave 7mo ago
"Corporate exec who will gain financial benefits if everyone uses AI wants everyone to use AI."
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by codingdave 7mo ago
CBT - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy If you are building tools to help with such problems, that is great. But if you need to ask what frameworks exist, you probably should catch up on what r
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by codingdave 7mo ago
Actual title: Guthrie doorbell video delayed by difficult data recovery, but privacy advocates still worry
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by codingdave 7mo ago
Not everyone works the same way. These ideas surely will work well for some people, but there are others who feel utterly blocked by a clean workspace and need some clutter to get them rolling. There are also people with various types of ne

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