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by mhotchen 4mo ago
Oh wow I went and looked that up after reading your comment. Launched less than a month ago! Incredible that you're seeing such impact already
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by mhotchen 4mo ago
This conversation makes me wonder if age verification at the system level could be considered an externality for its cost to society as a whole, and the solution be to collect tax from any commercial sale of a desktop OS that doesn't i
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by mhotchen 4mo ago
Location: London, UK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Permanent: No Technologies: TypeScript, Python, PHP, SQL, Terraform, Linux, AWS, AWS Lambda Email: m@mhn.me My name's Matthew Hotchen. I was founding engineer o
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by mhotchen 4mo ago
HUMANS need control flow. It's a very effective strategy that has worked wonders in healthcare
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by mhotchen 10mo ago
If you consider it in absolute values it makes sense. Bezos could give me a billion dollars which would match my wealth with Pichai's, and he'd still have 199 billion dollars
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by mhotchen 1y ago
It almost feels predestined for this to not solve the problems at hand, overrun on costs and timelines (furthering the first point), in no way streamline existing processes or cut costs, leave behind parts of society, and present security v
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by mhotchen 1y ago
There are many paths to overcoming this; none of them easy. I'm finding a lot of help in Martial Arts and Eastern Philosophy. Acknowledge thoughts and emotions, understand them, but don't hold on to them deeply. It's a hard s
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by mhotchen 1y ago
I think about this often. I hear people talking about why we need sunscreen these days and in my mind it's simply due to the lack of foliage and natural shade in both modern urban and rural areas (which are largely farm land these days
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by mhotchen 2y ago
Christ: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Red_Alert/blob/main/CO...
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by mhotchen 2y ago
This is awful
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by mhotchen 2y ago
Thanks both; you've inspired me to push on with learning React (Native)! Gonna be a fun weekend
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by mhotchen 2y ago
This is super cool. Found myself learning a few things about the power grid and of my country, and I spent some time looking in to the energy market off the back of this
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by mhotchen 2y ago
https://www.regular-expressions.info/ and https://blog.stevenlevithan.com/
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by mhotchen 2y ago
100% I believe this is the most common pitfall that I've seen. Long-term thinking is an acquired skill when it comes to engineering good solutions. Unfortunately after (sometimes) years of over-engineering solutions in your career, the
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by mhotchen 3y ago
Oh and we only deploy functions and their IAM permissions with serverless. All other AWS resources are managed by terraform. I think this was wise
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by mhotchen 3y ago
We use serverless, quite happy with it. TBH I mentioned SST in my first comment but I'm not super experienced with it, and I'm reasonably happy with serverless. I'd definitely be careful in my own decision in trying out SST s
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by mhotchen 3y ago
Yup. Entire core business product for a succeeding startup, though it's a small team of contributors (<10), and a much smaller platform team. Serverless backend started in 2018. Been a blessing in many regards, but it has its warts
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by mhotchen 3y ago
If you listen to the people who have worked closely with him from SpaceX[1], themselves heavy hitters in space industry which is a heavy hitting industry full of ridiculously smart people, it's clear he is simply on another planet. He
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by mhotchen 3y ago
I think yes. It's not easy to design and manufacture a phone using sustainable materials and components from vetted sources who treat their employees fairly, unfortunately. And to do it in such a way as to be easily repairable. They&#x
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by mhotchen 3y ago
Sounds like you'd get a lot out of Event Storming (if you haven't looked in to it already)
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by mhotchen 3y ago
I think this is a really interesting perspective. This could decentralise the population and solve many problems that way, and also reduce the costs and risks associated with utilising fully modernised technology; no need for compromise
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by mhotchen 4y ago
Referring to the title I think this is exceedingly the exception, not the norm (excluding bad hiring policies). Learning what not to do is more valuable than starting with a clean slate Referring to the twitter post, I agree. No point wasti
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by mhotchen 4y ago
One thing I've been thinking for the trauma cycle is how isolating childhood is for those who are in an abusive cycle (and in general). It takes a village to raise a child, but often the entire responsibility is put on 1-2 people, who
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by mhotchen 5y ago
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by mhotchen 5y ago
I did some sleuthing recently because I am quite sceptical about the whole "burn rocket fuel to go to space during a climate disaster" thing and found a study indicating that the current trend is going to cause more damage than CF
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by mhotchen 5y ago
Very impressive! I use DataGrip currently which is great but it has performance issues. This is very fast! And I like that it's AppImage. I really like the UI. And it's impressive what you've achieved. The main thing that sto
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by mhotchen 6y ago
Few interesting things in this comment, thanks! What you say makes sense; it sounds like Haskell can't literally hold my hand for me which is fair enough. I've just started my Haskell journey and the undefined paths through partia
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by mhotchen 6y ago
What approaches and tools do Haskell developers take to guard against this? I assume in the head case a Maybe would be a better return type? But then why doesn't the Haskell core do that in the head function?
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by mhotchen 6y ago
Africa is _the_ underrated continent. Just as many smart and driven people as anywhere else without the capital investment. Go Africa!
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by mhotchen 6y ago
I'm very impressed with what works so far by the way.

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