mindfulmark

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by mindfulmark 2mo ago
Last year I was trying out cars for a new purchase and was excited to try out the Subaru Outback. After one drive I decided I would never buy a Subaru because of their software. Lots of annoying noises, ugly, and no physical buttons. It was
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by mindfulmark 3mo ago
also the french word for ants, fourmis
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by mindfulmark 4mo ago
Whether we like it or not, coding is now about how you can leverage Claude/OpenAI/Gemini to do the work for you. If you don't have these skills I would focus some effort there. Are you familiar with how to use agent skills, p
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by mindfulmark 5mo ago
We're building https://brooked.io/ . In the same way that Cursor provides a lot of features on top of the base agents, we want to do the same for spreadsheets. There are many workflows that benefit from having an agent
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by mindfulmark 5mo ago
I think it’s ok that it’s similar to other SaaS websites. It wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for LLMs and it gets the job done and looks decent.
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by mindfulmark 5mo ago
We built the frontend for https://brooked.io and https://app.brooked.io using only prompting so I agree!
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by mindfulmark 8mo ago
Anecdotal, but I'm extremely disappointed with my Hyundai Tucson purchase. It's the first car I've owned. The drive train is gone on it and the mechanic says it's a common issue. Only 140k on it, 2019. It's hard to
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by mindfulmark 1y ago
More like we are all equally unprincipled when it comes to survival
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by mindfulmark 1y ago
I’ve reviewed stacked PRs a couple of times and found it pretty terrible. The only one that ends up making any sense is the first. Better off with either just one single big PR, or don’t ask anyone to look at the next PR until the first one
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by mindfulmark 2y ago
I guess I was just disagreeing with your opening sentence, the rest was spot on.
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by mindfulmark 2y ago
Disagree. Gukesh was constantly putting pressure on Ding to find defensive moves and Ding finally made a mistake. The fact that it happened when it did just makes it even more dramatic. We know from the other matches that Ding is capable of
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by mindfulmark 2y ago
Can a bear be blamed for murder? Somewhere in between the two is where AI models currently are, and they’re going to continue getting closer to the bear scenario.
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by mindfulmark 2y ago
Second this. Libraries like Material UI are battle tested and cover the vast majority of components you’re going to need. You can extend or theme them to match your needs and often include a built in design system. The likelihood of buildin
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by mindfulmark 2y ago
It’s interesting to read comment threads of people that are dead set against Typescript. It’s a tool that has very few downsides and that improves nearly every single line of code you write. Either they’re scared to learn something new, not
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by mindfulmark 3y ago
Seems like the gases are getting compressed either way and it's just different ways of wording the same effect. As for it being reversible or not, is it not just a matter of whether the energy was actually transferred somewhere? Like y
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by mindfulmark 3y ago
There are a some things in your comment that give me the impression that your opinions are too strong for your experience. 99% of codebases are bad. It’s the baseline condition. It’s our job everyday to slowly make them better. I’m extreme
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by mindfulmark 3y ago
Realizing that external dependencies are regular codebases just like the one you're working on. That you can open them up in VSCode, look around and figure out any bugs or issues you're having and even open pull requests to improv
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by mindfulmark 5y ago
I'm curious why you don't recommend PowerBI. What are the pain points?
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by mindfulmark 5y ago
Ah, thanks! I've added it.
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Ask HN: Would you like me to review your resume?
5 points by mindfulmark 5y ago|4 comments
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by mindfulmark 5y ago
Personally I call this « playing piano », as I’m not sure I’ve ever gotten passed this stage when practicing..
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by mindfulmark 6y ago
I think it's a good point and something I find myself worrying about as well. The hype around GraphQL and Apollo, for example, made me feel that I was losing serious time developing a REST APIs until I finally committed and decided to
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by mindfulmark 6y ago
Agreed! I got back into piano at the beginning of quarantine and it's been really interesting for learning how I learn. As you said, to make any level of progress on new pieces I need to break it up in to short 20 min exercises interle
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by mindfulmark 7y ago
I cannot agree more. I haven't felt so strongly about a book in a long time.