mattbrewsbytes

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by mattbrewsbytes 6d ago
The basis of these apps is pretty simple: you have to adjust your calorie target based on changes, you have to re-calculate as you go. What I've found is that tracking activity via calories burned is horribly unproductive as there are
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by mattbrewsbytes 7d ago
This is why a cool tech solution (procedural generation of "levels") by itself isn't good enough. The core gameplay loop is fundamentally the same on every planet. The graphics and descriptions may change but once you've
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by mattbrewsbytes 12d ago
> I chose this career mostly due to monetary reasons I saw similar cases during the dot com boom and then bust. My opinion is that people that don't have an intrinsic interest in their work won't last a career length in it. Do
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by mattbrewsbytes 15d ago
How often are people that are paid by their content attracting eyeballs correct? Isn't this a universal thing that people in these roles are constantly stating all sorts of things that never happen. This happens in sports media, politi
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by mattbrewsbytes 15d ago
Most refrigerators in the US have automatic ice cube making and water dispensing. At least ones in homes, rental properties tend to skimp on this unless they are labelled "luxury". Its connected to the water supply of the house, t
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by mattbrewsbytes 17d ago
I don't necessarily mean that managing up is negative in all cases. Its negative when that is the person's main focus - to manage up for that next promotion, make their mgmt believe everything they do is great, nothing is their f
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by mattbrewsbytes 17d ago
If you've played video games you're familiar with the dopamine hit you get when defeating a big boss, solving some hard puzzle or finding rare loot. In some ways, solving problems with software is the same way. Its the same feelin
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by mattbrewsbytes 23d ago
I've seen a fair share of personalities in middle/upper management. My hypothesis is that in large organizations, people that operate at that level often exhibit more survival skills that are ruthless than moral. A common characte
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by mattbrewsbytes 23d ago
Developers en masse do not run Linux as a desktop, about 80% of developers run Windows or MacOS. Your average software developer isn't going to figure out what linux distro to use on desktop, then install and configure everything, its
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by mattbrewsbytes 26d ago
If its a fixed cost on a balance sheet you might as well just use github (substitute whatever SaaS you're going to have AI clone), thats what that is without having responsibility for it.
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by mattbrewsbytes 26d ago
The reason why small and large companies use github (or any other SaaS) is simple: building and maintaining that service is not something that will help that company move forward. Spending the amount of time to build it, integrate everythin
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by mattbrewsbytes 1mo ago
Lets bring back Java Applets and Flash. I thought WASM was going to get more than niche adoption but it hasn't and there hasn't been anything else that I've heard gaining popularity. I think an element of this is because JS i
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by mattbrewsbytes 1mo ago
I've seen their ticketing software, what on earth are they going to do with any trade secrets? There are none in ticketing software or wiki's. Also the people making decisions on their products (or any "enterprise" SaaS
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by mattbrewsbytes 2mo ago
You can have cutesy names for employees and a culture with mission statements/purpose, etc. but when it comes down to it, if you're doing layoffs no collection of words is going to appease those that are let go and no collection o
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by mattbrewsbytes 2mo ago
Politics is about framing, posturing and perception. Engineers tend to focus on data, science and part of our job is testing a hypothesis, reviewing results and shifting a solution. A lot of software engineers make a lot of money in the US
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by mattbrewsbytes 3mo ago
> I need to have the system running day and night Buy a server or rent a VPS. Take the cost of either of the Apple options and divide by 36 months and get the biggest server you can for that monthly price.
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by mattbrewsbytes 3mo ago
Usually when talking about bubbles bursting its about a stock market bubble. P/E ratios now are approaching/passing the P/E ratios during the dot com boom/bust. Another reference point with high P/E ratios was aroun
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by mattbrewsbytes 3mo ago
AI support agents, chatbots, etc. on web sites these days are the equivalent to search engines during the dot com boom. Everyone felt that having a search engine on their dot com was the killer feature that was going to win. There were a lo
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by mattbrewsbytes 3mo ago
You do a great job not curating content. If people are complaining about the plethora of JS frameworks years ago or "everything is AI" these days, its a reflection of what people are discussing online. Now I'm waiting for the
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by mattbrewsbytes 3mo ago
> is kinda fake and unauthentic I think Apple can't find their voice since Steve Jobs passed/stopped doing the presentations. Thats why it feels inauthentic. I imagine its also hard to really feel "best (iphone|ipad|macos|
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by mattbrewsbytes 3mo ago
Your job as an experienced developer is to ship working code, the fact that AI tools are here doesn't change that. I would strive to create as minimal a set of artifacts for AI as possible. Observing where we are today with 6 months or
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by mattbrewsbytes 3mo ago
Letting new stocks marinate in the market and get 4 quarters of SEC filings along with following all the GAAP accounting practices will definitely help evaluate them before inclusion. The last large boom/bust cycle had a couple of comp
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by mattbrewsbytes 4mo ago
It might be a good idea to move to entire market index funds (VTI for example) for a few months around these IPOs to minimize the blast radius to your portfolio which still includes them in case of massive upside. If there is a downturn in
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by mattbrewsbytes 4mo ago
Or possibly an elevated number of AI Slop Cannons aiming their LLM generated hallucinations at github hosted repos?
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by mattbrewsbytes 4mo ago
I'm just an internet commenter who knows nothing about running a retail store and has thought about a bookstore as well. With that out of the way, finding high margin items to sell to offset low margin items would make sense. I think t
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by mattbrewsbytes 4mo ago
You could say the same about software. In both cases someone is looking at a screen typing things. One is used for communicating with other humans, the other is used for communicating with computers. For sure there are software engineers wo
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by mattbrewsbytes 4mo ago
In the dot com boom there were companies spending like $100+ on ads per $1 of revenue. The cost of customer acquisition was insanely high because of the hype of ecommerce and it was being subsidized by VC and IPO's. This AI boom feels
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by mattbrewsbytes 4mo ago
The race to invent variants of Gas Towns, Ralph loops, pump out videos, blogs, etc. showing off greenfield development with cleverly named agents running in parallel is another case of engineering people diving head first into Resume Driven
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by mattbrewsbytes 4mo ago
I think there's merit in a privacy first, no ads, no global/viral content app/service like this; there have been a lot of threads here on HN with related sentiment. I think the challenge is more a business problem - how do yo
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by mattbrewsbytes 4mo ago
Back then your typical management, who frequently followed "you can't go wrong with picking IBM" in their decision making, would question open source software and take actions to stop it from being used (like blocking sites i

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