half0wl

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by half0wl 9mo ago
I appreciate this blogpost. I'm the one at Railway responsible for this decision, so I wanted to share some context from our side. First off, sorry you got nailed by this. I genuinely empathize because _we_ got nailed too - the Railway
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by half0wl 11mo ago
I've been here. Taking a vacation never helped, because I'd be stressed during the vacation thinking about "work" in an active manner. What really helped me was fully disconnecting and shifting my mindset to think about
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AI will NOT replace Software Engineers(ray.cat)
3 points by half0wl 11mo ago|0 comments
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by half0wl 1y ago
I'm curious - why? I personally find the search summaries helpful more often than not, and it works nicely in products like Google Sheet. There is an extension posted here a few days ago that you could try [0], but I think that's
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by half0wl 2y ago
No questions, just wanted to say hi, congrats, and thank you for building Yaak :greg:
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Ask HN: What's the best forum-based community you've been a part of, and why?
21 points by half0wl 3y ago|13 comments
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by half0wl 3y ago
You should have 50/50 odds. If you don't, you're dropping the overall bar on each hire.
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Support Engineering is Engineering (2024)(blog.railway.app)
2 points by half0wl 3y ago|0 comments
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by half0wl 3y ago
And one more to the casket - https://killedbygoogle.com/
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by half0wl 3y ago
I highly recommend Fastmail [0] for this purpose. I have been with them for 5 years, and they're rock solid. I have ~10 domains on it, they support wildcards (send/recv at anything@you.com), the composer has sane defaults for mult
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by half0wl 3y ago
How are you "training" them? It's important to drill down into what they're struggling with before you throw resources at them. I've found that code reviews are the best way to mentor and transfer knowledge. And it
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Ask HN: What companies do you admire for their user/customer support?
4 points by half0wl 3y ago|3 comments
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by half0wl 3y ago
`requests` is just a HTTP library. Classifying it as a "scraping library" is confusing; it's part of the web scraping toolkit, but it's not a "scraping library".
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Ask HN: What is the best product documentation you’ve ever seen?
45 points by half0wl 3y ago|40 comments
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by half0wl 4y ago
ORMs come to mind. There's typically a lot of reflection and dynamic instantiation magic baked into its classes, which you really have to hack around typing to make it work nicely (or even at all).
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by half0wl 4y ago
Same. I treat them as immutable DTOs [0], or "value objects" if you will instead of "just a plain class". An unfortunate drawback is that not everyone is familiar with the concept of immutability, especially in the world
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by half0wl 4y ago
I've been having a blast writing plain old HTML templates for the past few weeks. It's a traditional Django app. I also use plain old CSS instead of frameworks like Tailwind (well, I use Bootstrap, but I don't use its utility
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by half0wl 4y ago
> Anything else worth looking into? I've been looking into using ChatGPT as a writing assistant for myself. If you write a lot, it's worth a shot. > What AI tools should I evaluate to improve my office? Start with the proble
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by half0wl 4y ago
I'm in the process of standing up my own hardware (1U server/some simple compute box + FreeNAS) for doing this. There's a variable I don't understand with self-hosted cloud/storage: what guarantees do you have that
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by half0wl 4y ago
I'm currently doing so. I'm pretty early in the process, and I've had a great experience thus far: quick replies, nice challenge (it was actually a challenge for me because I haven't touched the relevant language/fr
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by half0wl 4y ago
Thank you for sharing. This is a perspective I’ve never had, it’s going to give me a lot to think about tonight :-)
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by half0wl 4y ago
Generally, I think having an open handbook is the trending culture. Building in the open is becoming more popular - GitLab really moved the needle on this, so IMO from an outsider's perspective, Airbyte [0] and Posthog [1] has the best
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by half0wl 4y ago
GabeN hit the nail on the head. If you make paying for a service/content impossible or hard, people who want it will find other ways to get it. Regional DRM/content licensing is one annoying culprit.. Consumers want something inst
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by half0wl 4y ago
Is CS/programming something you're interested in or passionate about? > but I have no skills nor experience to show for it Skills and experience can be acquired. My inbox is always open :-)
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by half0wl 4y ago
The train is the longest part of the journey, and seemingly one of the calmest (compared to subway and that short tram ride). Are you able to do any deep work (reading, learning, brushing up on CS, etc.) during this commute on laptop or pho
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by half0wl 4y ago
That's indeed a huge one. Learning to manage differing management & working styles is challenging especially when you don't have the cultural context. Do you mind sharing how your team/leadership navigated it?
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by half0wl 4y ago
> You list major barriers around legal presence (the cost of deel) and compliance, what more do you want? Exactly what you posted :-) I have rough thoughts. I'm curious about other people's thoughts, experiences, and opinions.
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by half0wl 4y ago
I believe they maintain a legal entity in countries they're operating in. I was a "Deel employee" and they operated through the same name.
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by half0wl 4y ago
You're right. > It definitely adds risk From other comments such as badpun's [0] and ohadron's [1], along with yours, it looks like this is all boiling down to risk + unknowns vs reward. I wonder if we can make the unknow
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by half0wl 4y ago
Fully agreed. GitLab's handbook is required reading for all remote companies, IMO. I did a small "case study" of how they operate & mirrored some of their processes. There are a bunch companies with an "open handbook

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