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by codingdave 23d ago
Do your contracts allow sub-contracting the work? Most of mine do, so there is nothing unethical about that kind of setup. Unless you are lying about it. But openly sub-contracting work, as long as you maintain accountability for it, is com
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by codingdave 24d ago
So you feel that reading being necessary to write well is not true, yet the first 2 points of advice include directions to read, to re-read, to understand what you read, and then to read more. And in your last point, to write while remember
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by codingdave 24d ago
Rambling is often an effective writing technique. Go ahead, ramble... then go back later, figure out where in the writing you stopped rambling and actually hit your stride, and delete all the rambling that came before that point.
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by codingdave 25d ago
There is the obvious alternative of still using it, including creating your own fork. They removed telemetry and auth, according to that same page. I'm also curious what other alternatives exist, so would be interested in what others a
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by codingdave 25d ago
Likewise genuinely asking - Is the consequence if they do not like your answers ever worse than just not letting someone in? Because in the USA, border control is now ICE. They throw people in jail. They deport people. They separate familie
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by codingdave 27d ago
Those levels seem incorrect to me. They are written presuming that more AI == right answer, which is not always true. I think the ladders would be less about how you use it, and more about when you use it. Do you understand when it absolute
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by codingdave 27d ago
Honestly, no - vibe coded projects that aren't done well never launch. So if you ever reach a "Day 1", you did well enough that you can probably roll with it for a couple years before you need a rescue. And if your business s
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by codingdave 28d ago
> AI-native premium webmail service What does that mean? It is just a pile of words to me, not an outline of what your product would do, or how it is differentiated from any other mail platform. So gut feeling, no - email is personal com
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by codingdave 28d ago
Legacy tech work. I get almost no calls for modern dev stacks, but I'm kept as busy fixing and modernizing legacy apps on legacy stacks, and helping to get their data moved to a modern environment. I'm not drowning in calls or any
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by codingdave 1mo ago
I agree that it implies simplicity, but in my experience, that is exactly the intended context. People say "Can we just..." when other people are proposing complex solutions that may not be needed. And if the answer is that a comp
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by codingdave 1mo ago
> With AI doing much of the work, how do we humans keep life interesting? If you think work was the only interesting thing in life, I don't think you have fully explored everything this world has to offer.
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by codingdave 1mo ago
Actual Title: MIT Webscraper "...please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by codingdave 1mo ago
There is no way I'd track that info in an app. My meter keeps history. I can download it to my device. Why would I put another app in the middle of that process?
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by codingdave 1mo ago
Federally? 1920. When did all the voter suppression become illegal? 1965.
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by codingdave 1mo ago
https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/about/index.html https://projectlyme.org/ticks-debunking-common-myths-and-mis...
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by codingdave 1mo ago
Hey, thanks - I wasn't aware of that. Glad to have learned it. But you can probably tell that there is no need to be snarky. Just your first sentence would have been more in line with how people engage with each other around here.
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by codingdave 1mo ago
Getting a tick is no big event. It is just something that happens if you live near woods. I own a forest, and get ticks on occasion. Gross, but no big deal. Grab a tick-pulling tool and gently coax them out. Don't crush them or force t
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by codingdave 1mo ago
Somewhat off-topic, but that page is unreadable. I need to zoom in to 200% to read the charts, but then the normal text is gigantor. It looks like it could be interesting content, but when I need to zoom in and out every time I scroll down,
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by codingdave 1mo ago
wat. AI is a tool. You can use it regardless of how much or how little people talk about it.
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by codingdave 1mo ago
Think about what problem HN solves in your life. To achieve that solution, is it required that you "keep up"? Or does HN serve its purpose in your life when you casually browse some stories once in a while? I suspect that when you
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by codingdave 1mo ago
Possibly because all you have ever done here is post Show HNs. You haven't engaged in discussions outside of your own posts. You have not shared anything that was not your own work. Hard to say for sure why people flag, but your histor
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by codingdave 1mo ago
Zero personal. Zero at work.
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by codingdave 1mo ago
This is a leadership failure more than anything else. People will do whatever you incentivize them to do. If you are promoting them or giving them other incentives to do things that are not what the business needs, you can hardly blame peop
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by codingdave 1mo ago
Blog posts are explicitly excluded from 'Show HN'. Of course, since the post is about Show HNs, just remove the colon from the title and now it matches the title on the page, which is also one of the posting guidelines. https:&#x
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by codingdave 1mo ago
The problem with this effort is that they are drawing the wrong conclusion. Yes, Bauhaus had heavy influence on the last 100 years of architecture and other areas, especially in the corporate spaces. So it was a valid proof that an intentio
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by codingdave 1mo ago
Oh, good catch - they did it on an earlier post, too. And now the parent comment has been edited to not ask a question.
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by codingdave 1mo ago
And who are you hearing that from? Designers and engineers? Or managers who want it to be true?
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by codingdave 1mo ago
Sure, if you are hiring one person to do two jobs, it is going to be a struggle. Even two jobs that are related to each other - if they have different skill sets, it is two different roles. Take racing as an example. Drivers and mechanics a
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by codingdave 1mo ago
No, I've found that LLMs are only effective on popular stacks. On niche stacks or legacy stacks, you get back code that doesn't even run - syntax pulled from other languages, object models and APIs from stacks that are not the one
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by codingdave 1mo ago
It is difficult to believe you are approaching this in good faith when you started with drug testing and background checks, then pivoted to it being about tax brackets, are replying to most comments to be sure your perspective always has th

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