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by codingdave 9mo ago
> If you take this model literally, that your experience of an interval reflects what fraction of your life the interval is I don't accept that premise. I'm in my mid-fifties now, and a year is still a long time. They years get
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by codingdave 9mo ago
I wouldn't use this. First of all, you are asking for my information to generate the emails, so saying "no sign up" is one of those things that is technically true, but you are getting my data anyway. Secondly, it might not b
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by codingdave 9mo ago
This is a really long way of saying "We need to burn fossil fuels to make more money." It didn't make long-term sense for our world before AI. It makes no more sense with AI.
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by codingdave 9mo ago
> When you ask Claude to "update the pricing page to reflect the new limits," it can... wat. You are running the marketing page from the same repo, yet having an LLM make the updates? You have the data file available. Just read
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by codingdave 9mo ago
Not a mobile issue. I am on desktop and had no idea what this service was because nothing on the initial UI explained what we were looking at. I went and double-checked when people here were talking about pricing and VMs. From the home page
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by codingdave 9mo ago
At first glance, no, this doesn't make sense. You cannot be cheaper than your cost of doing business, otherwise you go bankrupt, non-profit or not. So if you are built on AWS, you cannot be cheaper than AWS. If you use their cheapest t
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by codingdave 9mo ago
> We assume that if we generate an embedding and store it, the "memory" is stable. Why do you assume that? In my experience, the "memory" is never stable. You seem to have higher expectations of reliability than would
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by codingdave 9mo ago
From the FAQ: > Are paywalls ok? > It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds. > In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post com
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by codingdave 9mo ago
The core problem that LinkedIn solves has nothing to do with all the "social media" style content that plagues the platform. It is a long-term rolodex to be able to talk to former co-workers, while also getting contacted by recrui
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by codingdave 9mo ago
Affiliate marketing is such a mixed bag. I absolutely love it when people can monetize their writing by adding some affiliate links that are relevant to the audience - win/win for all sides. Yet it is as slimy as anything else when the
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by codingdave 9mo ago
> doing exactly the right refactorings Are you aware of any LLM models that can do that?
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by codingdave 9mo ago
This sounds like a dystopian nightmare of a product. I clicked the link anyway and confirmed that this is 100% AI slop - part of a project for an AI to do the entirety of a project to see if it can build and run a business. Dystopian slop o
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by codingdave 9mo ago
> Think of it as trying to do for WhatsApp what Resend did for email or Stripe did for payments If you were a PM, you should be able to see what is wrong with this statement. You are trying to do for a specific product what your examples
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by codingdave 9mo ago
If that future came to fruition we'd stop hearing "it works on my machine", and start hearing "it worked with my LLM". The problem with refactoring code, re-writing codebases, and such major work is not the effort o
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by codingdave 9mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "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."
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by codingdave 9mo ago
I did do web work for a long time, but I grew tired of it, so these days I just do contract work on legacy systems and platform modernizations. Some of those systems may have a web UX, some do not. But the work is more about refactoring arc
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by codingdave 9mo ago
> I revised the existing version So you used the existing version as a base, then iterated on it? If so, that is a sketchy way to do it. Start from scratch and you are golden, but copy/paste/iterate isn't cool.
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by codingdave 9mo ago
No. Just Stop. The prior monthly post is still the #1 on the "ask" page, and even monthly it is a high noise ratio. We don't need it faster, we certainly don't need people posting their own thread just to pimp their pers
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by codingdave 9mo ago
Yikes. Well, hopefully they will learn that people aren't quite as naive as they think, and try to do better.
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by codingdave 9mo ago
Putting the version number in the domain is a fairly strong "I'm just going for quick cash grab from a wrapper app" signal, if I've ever seen one. As is the blog link with no entries. The utter lack of any information on
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by codingdave 9mo ago
> But what if we've been wrong about what matters? Still wrong, though. Does the final product solve the problem it set out to solve? Because that is what matters. Specs and code are both tools to achieve that. So while this artic
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by codingdave 9mo ago
I'm working on hand-building mugs. Throwing clay around in a studio, etc. But I'm also thinking about it as a product manager based on my tech experience. Looking at what people like in mugs, creating templates to exactly size the
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by codingdave 9mo ago
That is just how being a PM goes. You need to take all those inputs and synthesize a vision that meets as many needs as possible, without delegating control to the stakeholders. The most important thing to learn is how to say "No"
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by codingdave 9mo ago
Actual Title: Schrödinger Can Give You Relativity; Classical = Quantum Equation HN Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don&#
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by codingdave 9mo ago
When building up something small and new, sure, checking security in each route is quick and easy. But a time will come where your security, roles, and whatnot have evolved to the point that new features and roles would mean you need to go
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by codingdave 9mo ago
My experience is that different people have different roles. Those focused on the tech are probably focusing in their own space. Those focused on marketing are probably trying to kickstart discussions online. So when you are looking at what
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by codingdave 9mo ago
I'm dubious. The fact that there are valuable minerals in the Utah desert is not news. This feels less like a surprise discovery and more like someone trying to milk the current administration for support, as the bottom of the article
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by codingdave 9mo ago
That touches on why I never pursued server-side React in any form. It seemed to twist what was a clean break between layers into spaghetti. I totally get that it solves other problems, but it always felt to me more like trying to force Reac
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by codingdave 9mo ago
Have you considered that perhaps such things simply are not within its capabilities?
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by codingdave 10mo ago
This is why I push for Kanban whenever I am a PO. If we can ballpark an estimate, I can prioritize it. If we cannot ballpark an estimate, I can prioritize the research to clear out some of the unknowns. But most importantly, we set an expec

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