kixxauth

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by kixxauth 4mo ago
Yeah, pinning dependencies is very similar to vendoring or cloning them. By cloning, you get to know the code better and how it is structured, plus you cherry pick only the features you want. But, like you said, you are at risk of introduci
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by kixxauth 4mo ago
It makes me wonder if large engineering organizations are going to splinter. The coordination costs are getting, proportionally, much larger than they used to. When I left my corporate engineering job wayyyyy back in March, there were engin
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by kixxauth 4mo ago
I really don't like how the payment plans work with the providers right now. I feel this pressure to use all my tokens for the week, often just "wasting" them. But also, I want to take advantaged of the subsidized tokens in C
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by kixxauth 4mo ago
Vendor your dependencies, clone or port them where needed, and freeze them. Most good packages these days do not have a deep dependency tree, and we should stop using the ones that do. I spent a week with claude and codex re-implementing se
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by kixxauth 2y ago
I heard from someone, somewhere, that coffee and free wifi may be the biggest economic value driver of all.
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Coffee Fueled Revolutions–and Revolutionary Ideas(history.com)
1 points by kixxauth 2y ago|1 comments
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by kixxauth 2y ago
What aspects or use cases of crypto do you find important?
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by kixxauth 2y ago
Yeah, it's appropriately ironic that these things were supposed to give power to the people (excluding the private jets), but power has become consolidated to those who have the means to consolidate it ... and the climate pays.
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by kixxauth 2y ago
It's no longer a boom (and yes, AI is probably far worse at this point) And proof of stake consumes less energy, but still significant.
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by kixxauth 2y ago
Additionally, a question for you: I don't have experience in finance. Do you think this idea of having a settlement period for crypto transactions could work?
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by kixxauth 2y ago
Ha. That's cynically hilarious.
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by kixxauth 2y ago
The carbon emission problem with crypto currency and AI is analogous to the oil and gas industry. When you boil it down to first principles, we are extracting resources from the Earth, and destroying our climate, in the hope of some sort of
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by kixxauth 2y ago
Ha, yeah. So, maybe a stretch here. I'm thinking of use cases like distributed domain name lookup systems, identification systems, social networks.
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by kixxauth 2y ago
I'd be really curious to know if this could be use case for AI code generation tools using speech recognition. I don't know of any, but this could be very interesting.
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(Opinion) Crypto mining is nonessential and is killing our climate
18 points by kixxauth 2y ago|27 comments
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The email threads which led to JavaScript modules (2009)(groups.google.com)
1 points by kixxauth 2y ago|1 comments
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by kixxauth 2y ago
I was part of this discussion in 2009-2012, and was curious if it was still out there. It is! It's fascinating to take dig stuff up like this and replay it, knowing what we know now. Of course, everyone is using the new ES modules spec
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by kixxauth 4y ago
Learn to love JavaScript. Then you'll always have fun building side projects. Sounds snarky, but I'm serious. You can build anything with it, and it can be fun to use too.
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The Gerber Statistic: Reducing noise in portfolio risk management(papers.ssrn.com)
1 points by kixxauth 4y ago|0 comments
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by kixxauth 4y ago
To really become valuable in your role you need to leverage your experience and skills to become a force multiplier (as mentioned several other places in this thread). There is some good advice in here to help junior devs level up. But I wo
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by kixxauth 4y ago
Copilot may be one of the most valuable early use cases for chat AI. I've been brushing off AI as overhyped, but this is very compelling. I believe the real crux of software engineering is thinking about the problem and organizing solu
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Ask HN: What's your legal business structure and why?
2 points by kixxauth 4y ago|1 comments
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by kixxauth 4y ago
I’ve been recreating in the mountains for a few decades now, some of it pretty serious. Honestly, nothing has taught me more respect for life than being challenged in the mountains. The lessons I’ve learned I’ve applied to software, managem
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by kixxauth 4y ago
Looking through the comments on this post, it's no surprise that many HN readers are doing the same. A self selected audience, I guess ;-) Still, it has been fun, and rewarding. I don't feel like building these things is a waste o
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by kixxauth 4y ago
> There is a ton of practical stuff written in this general area if you search for "mind mapping" or "zettelkasten" (links below). I think sometimes we can overweight the impact of tools and systems for retaining know
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by kixxauth 4y ago
I've been collecting nerdy tech information on and off for 30 years. I say "on and off" because it seems to come in waves. It happens between spans of time when I'm building something important or profitable (not necessa
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by kixxauth 4y ago
> I also find it really sad that a lot of the small teams who are on the road to success get distracted by applying "best practices" that were built for big teams (e.g. Google uses kubernetes, we should too). Totally. It takes
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by kixxauth 4y ago
In most large businesses the most significant work is done by 20% or less of the workforce (I work for a fortune 100 company). Too often the team size is a proxy for how successful an entrepreneur is. Although I’m not a fan of the solo entr
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The False Premise of Group Brainstorming(hbr.org)
2 points by kixxauth 4y ago|2 comments
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by kixxauth 4y ago
In my experience, while group discussion establishes the context for a problem, breakthrough solutions usually come when thinking alone.

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