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by jskulski 2y ago
Congrats! The launch is a stellar example of focusing on key functionality and cutting everything else. Core tech is amazing. I played writing an intro for some documentation I'm creating, and it was amazing. It felt very conversationa
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by jskulski 3y ago
Agreed. He reads his own audiobook and it’s incredible. I keep going back to it.
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by jskulski 3y ago
(Not OP) I’d find value in this if you were considering publishing a guide. Been working on a pi400 eink solar powered cyberdeck but haven’t done anything with cell connection yet. So could follow long for that and for the blackberry.
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by jskulski 3y ago
Ive built a couple systems that would have been datomic’s bread and butter. Each time the company was more comfortable with mainstream dbs, so we ended going with something like you’re talking about, built on top of a db. A couple of the pr
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by jskulski 3y ago
Yeah Sean Evan’s is an amazing interviewer. Some mix between the depth of Nardwaur and the pleasantness of Jess Thorne. The questions earlier in the series felt more “real”, where I get a sense of promotion now. It was always about the prom
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by jskulski 3y ago
I generally will use vcr[0] or something similar to record requests and then I write tests and code against that. 3rd parties go down, it happens. In general a system that is dependent on a third party should have some non exceptional behav
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by jskulski 4y ago
We may not be able to observed it, and maybe can’t. Just like time slowing down would be imperceptible to the person on the spaceship nearing light speed. It takes the mathematics Or if I’m lucky enough to have the time to watch the moon mo
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by jskulski 4y ago
I like the breakdown and agree with your general line of reasoning. I’m confuse though why you don’t just say refactor. This just reads like you redefined “refactor” to be adding layers and “defactor” to removing layers. Textbook refactorin
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by jskulski 4y ago
> What have they ever built? While I agree that reading code and learning is essential, I don’t think this line of criticism is fair. I mean like most programmers I’d imagine their years and years of industry work isn’t public. I mean wh
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by jskulski 4y ago
Don’t buy product that helps you focus, instead spend more money on a different product and tune that constantly to maybe help you focus? (This method doesn’t work for me) People’s brains, environments and situations are different. It’s a l
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by jskulski 4y ago
Very cool, not GP but also thanks for pointing me to this board. I’m just getting into hardware stuff but have an e-ink project in mind.
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by jskulski 4y ago
Crazy, I was watching some some smalltalk 80 demos this weekend. And was like I bet you could ship a js image that does some of this. Someone must be working on it. I don’t know if that’s your teams inspiration but there’s a a lot of overla
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by jskulski 4y ago
Interesting idea and good execution. My thought would be it feels like it is helps enable “careless” PMs, rather than make better stories. I added a simple user story “I want to be able to check our prices against competitor prices” Imo, a
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by jskulski 4y ago
SHADOW DOM
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by jskulski 4y ago
Acknowledging that I don’t know the business or context, “remote does not work for eng” is a bad take.
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by jskulski 4y ago
Haha yeah I feel like SQLite is a very _told_ story on HN. Great story and tech for real, inspirational but also very trendy right now!
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by jskulski 4y ago
Im not sure if it’s future proofing exactly, but I’m placing my bets on Nix powered development systems. The conceptual clarity combined with sparse documentation, rough edged user land, and the army of edge cases give me flashes of Docker
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by jskulski 4y ago
A company I worked at was in the business of classified ads in the early two thousands. “We” started selling typeset ads at some point to customers unbeknownst to the tiny fresh grad three person tech team. So we did what we had to do which
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by jskulski 4y ago
Great read, thanks!
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by jskulski 4y ago
After an initial small investment, I was able to take notes. Then it was keeping my todos on projects at work, getting a list, etc. Then I could add source blocks and execute them. Now it’s a literate and repl driven engine that is nearly a
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by jskulski 4y ago
Not a consumer grade solution, but Org mode handles this with some setup and browser extensions
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by jskulski 4y ago
My answer is I would. I enjoy the process and at this point, is my most reliable way to the flow state. I am more motivated by the process and the learning of making than I am about finished products. I have a couple of projects that I day
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Ask HN: If AGI hypothetically brings us utopia, would you still code?
1 points by jskulski 4y ago|3 comments
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by jskulski 4y ago
Had they talked about releasing the source code? I would love to see the machine behind DF. I think about it all the time. Either is a complete mess that no one else can understand, or they nailed the abstractions and it is infinitely exten
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by jskulski 4y ago
Yes. I no longer use vim (plugins aren’t fun to mess around with for me, feel like I’m just always catching up to functionality in more complete tools) but I use vim mode in all my other editors/IDEs (pycharm, emacs, vs code) For actua
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by jskulski 4y ago
As cool as I think this technology is, it’s on the backs of artists who have spent years finding their voice and training themselves. Please be forward thinking and community minded.
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by jskulski 4y ago
Strong agree. Pete Holmes has a great bit about how google makes 'knowing' and 'not knowing' are the same thing. "You don't know something now? Wait 2 seconds and you will know it. There's not time for mys
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by jskulski 4y ago
Team Rdio right here. A truly great app for music lovers that arrived when the age of apps felt like a bright utopia ahead of us. I truly miss it.
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by jskulski 4y ago
I got about a decade of scattered print debugging tools that I’m packaging into a tool. I prefer debuggers and imaged based REPL environments, but that doesn’t mean I get to work in them. Always fall back on print debugging and loggers at s
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by jskulski 4y ago
This was like watching someone cast a spell. Thanks for sharing!

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