darrelld

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by darrelld 1mo ago
We have a junior research student who does this on slack. Before I think he was using AI and other tools to translate his messages since english isn't his first language. His own words, then AI translated it. Sounded kinda clunky, but
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by darrelld 6mo ago
Exactly! I've been working on a side project that I started in 2020. If I wanted to implement a new feature it was: - Wait for regular work hours to wrap up around 5 or 6 PM - Get dinner and rest / relax until around 8 or 9 PM - O
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by darrelld 8mo ago
I just sent my single client a monthly subscription link via stripe. $875 a month for service and support on a custom built loyalty platform. Make about $25K up front to build it, then followed up with maybe another $20K worth of various f
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by darrelld 1y ago
Built a bespoke loyalty points system for a chain of gas stations back in 2020. Thought at first it would be a one time deliverable and then I could move on with my life. Cut to today and I'm trying to launch it into it's own plat
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by darrelld 1y ago
I'm accustomed to seeing large plumes of chemicals coming out the other end in my minds eye when I think about rocket launches. This looks "clean" coming out the exhaust. Why is that? Is it due to the nature of chemicals it u
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by darrelld 1y ago
I'm reading through the book the blog mentions right now and building a small LLM. I'm only on chapter 2, but so far it's helped clarify a lot of things about LLMs and break it down into small steps. Highly recommend Building
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by darrelld 2y ago
Working on a loyalty points platform. Right now it's been commissioned by one customer and is a hodgepodge of duct tape and glue. Trying to slowly refactor functions so I can truly make a platform and onboard new customers.
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by darrelld 2y ago
Born Guyanese, but only lived there until I was 3, then we moved to St. Lucia. Have lots of memories from visiting over summers and Christmas multiple times when I was a kid. Mostly consider myself Lucian and I feel like I've assimilat
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by darrelld 2y ago
This is cool, I've thought of building something like this for years now. The price is a bit high, but glad to see it in the real world.
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by darrelld 2y ago
I'm building a loyalty points platform. Started off as a one off solution for a single client, but then I realized that I could generalize it. The one off solution is running for my client for the last year, but the generalized API is
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by darrelld 2y ago
AI is definitely a big part of it. When I would search Google with a technical question and land on StackOverflow I was looking for an answer. Sometimes you get a post which is similar, but not quite right, or the answers are only 95% of an
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by darrelld 2y ago
yeah check out this other reply thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41353838
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by darrelld 2y ago
Broad strokes: I went to school with the son of the owner. For about 3 years off and on he'd been asking me about building apps, where he could find good devs, what price to pay. I'd sent him some info, but never got too involved.
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by darrelld 2y ago
So back in 2021 I built a loyalty platform for a chain of gas stations in the Caribbean. Thought it would be a quick deliverable, then hands off. It's turning into a full time side gig that's paid off in handful of batches (~$25K
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by darrelld 4y ago
> Your boss is ok with your performance. Why overthink it? This is what I had to learn to let go of imposter syndrome. All the mental hand wringing, constant worry and fear even after they said "good job". Instead nowadays I wa
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by darrelld 4y ago
I don't recall ever seeing it in the wild, but I remember it as a JS script you could add to your site from a page that I think was http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ I may have played around with it on a couple of HTML page
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by darrelld 4y ago
Lots of comments in here disregarding the author's take, but there is a pervasive alcohol culture in most US workplaces. One place I worked at did champagne for birthdays and major celebrations. All outings after work were at a bar. An
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by darrelld 4y ago
Sidebar: This is the first piece of content out there in the wild where I've noticed a Dall-E generated image for an article.
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by darrelld 4y ago
Never forget: The original version of Javascript was written in 10 days. Javascript is a mess, especially at smaller shops which may face pressures to ship projects to a client that work, regardless of the state of the code. Breathe. You&#x
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by darrelld 4y ago
I moved away from for profit orgs to work for a social movement org a few years back. Your best bet is to find orgs that you like, and reach out to them. Some may have a careers page, others won't. Mostly you can expect to get contract
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by darrelld 4y ago
I gamble with the devil. They sit on a 14 TB HDD. Of that about 70% of my photos are backed up to Glacier, but the remaining 20% needs to be culled (lots of repeated shots from camera high speed burst mode, bad shots etc) before I put them
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by darrelld 4y ago
Yeah, I feel like that a lot. 1. Usually I've found it takes about 1 year to fully understand a significantly large organisation and how it works. 2. After a while, it stops mattering. I came in to do a job, to focus on building whatev
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by darrelld 4y ago
At the end of the day stories reflect our society and LoTR is just another story. All of the classic stories we tell kids have evolved over time and are no longer true to their original source material. We take the thing we need, ignore the
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Do you care about your craft?
3 points by darrelld 4y ago|2 comments
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by darrelld 4y ago
Don't fall into the trap of needing the "best specs" for the job. Camera's from the 2010s were producing great images in color and black and white. Go to a store that sells cameras (B&H Photo, Target, Walmart, Best B
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by darrelld 4y ago
I keep telling myself: "He who worries, suffers twice". I can't remember who the quote is attributed to, but it's a helpful little phrase that reminds me that it's better to just suffer once and be done, or sometime
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by darrelld 4y ago
I don't get the use case for this. Are browsers really that slow? I have an old 2013 macbook air with 16GB ram and it still surfs the net silky smooth. I have a desktop I built back in 2015 with an i7 and 32 GB ram that I'm using
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The Cult Inside Google(medium.com)
597 points by darrelld 4y ago|6 comments
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Uncanny Valley (2016)(nplusonemag.com)
9 points by darrelld 4y ago|0 comments
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by darrelld 4y ago
In your terminal Ctrl+a will return you to the start of whatever line you have typed, and ctrl+e will return you to the end.

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