neebz

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by neebz 2mo ago
This is like pre-LLM, you presenting a problem to the team, and they google and send you the top few links thinking they have found the solution and have done their job. I actually banned this and made it part of onboarding. I can google to
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by neebz 4mo ago
do you also have separate prompts for each domain (security, architecture etc?). would love to look into it if any part of it is open source
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by neebz 6mo ago
Once the plan stage is done is it fire-and-forget for you afterwards?
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by neebz 6mo ago
what a brilliant blog. the Lotus 1-2-3 screen brings so many memories of my childhood. My father was a power user of Lotus back in the late 80's. He extensively used it as his job at GE. When we moved back to Pakistan, he setup a girls
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by neebz 7mo ago
I've faced the same but my conclusion is the opposite. In the past 6 months, all my code has been written by claude code and gemini cli. I have written code backend, frontend, infrastructure and iOS. Considering my career trajectory al
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by neebz 8mo ago
For window management, Aerospace has been a game changer for me. I could never work with multiple monitors before that.
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by neebz 10mo ago
We switched to solar in 2021 expecting a 3.5-year payback. Electricity prices rose so fast that we recovered the investment in under two years. Also the national grid is notorious for it's frequent blackouts (load-shedding) since the e
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by neebz 11mo ago
All these coding agent workflows really drive home how important a solid test suite is but who’s actually writing the tests? In my case Claude Code keeps missing key scenarios and I’ve had to point out every gap myself. Also reviewing LLM g
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by neebz 1y ago
Looks super interesting. Has anyone here tried a keyboard-first tiling window manager on macOS? Any recommendations?
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by neebz 1y ago
Finally someone emphasized upon the cognitive load of AI-assisted coding. It definitely makes me faster but it's consistent prompt->code-review->prompt->code-review->scratch->prompt-code->review cycle which just requi
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by neebz 1y ago
We setup a solar on in our home in Pakistan back in 2023. Our primary driver was cost since it was getting extremely expensive during summers when the ACs were on. We expected to get the return in 4 years but inflation went so high in subse
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by neebz 2y ago
I remember back in the summer of 1996 in Pakistan our household was one of the first few to have to internet. At that time angelfire.com used to give free webspace. My brother got hold of a pirated version of CorelDraw and setup a fan websi
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by neebz 4y ago
yup - some documentation/legal work remains but they should be able own the company abroad as a subsidiary soon. how would you suggest we should pursue this once all the paperwork is done? hire an immigration lawyer? any recommendation
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by neebz 4y ago
How are the odds for bringing your remote employees to US using the L1 visa? They've worked for us for more than 5 years in management role. Also the startup got acquired sometime ago, does that impact the L1 application?
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by neebz 4y ago
Bertrand was one of my favorite people in the software field. I really wanted to do a Phd under his supervision.
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by neebz 4y ago
awesome. thanks for sharing.
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by neebz 4y ago
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30674159
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by neebz 5y ago
Some feedback from our transition: - automated tests are the pre-req of feature flags. kindly make sure that you have good test coverage. otherwise the team loses confidence in code & feature flags which defeats the whole purpose. - as
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by neebz 5y ago
Yes. Feature flags changed the mindset of my whole team. I absolutely love the fact that it pushes the whole team towards release-small-release-often mentality. It's a technical solution with many benefits but I love the cultural impac
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by neebz 5y ago
In Safari you can set reader mode turned on for specified websites. I have done it for all the sites which I visit frequently. Unfortunately there is no way to to turn it on at global level. The only minor gripe I have is the slide-above an
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by neebz 6y ago
Personally I learnt to be less judgmental of people. From media you compartmentalize everyone into neat little boxes to make sense of the world. We find other people's values ridiculous when we hear/read about it but only when we
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by neebz 6y ago
regarding local environments, have you faced performance issues? running 5-6 docker images (app,redis,db,mq etc) at the same time has been causing the machine to lag for us. most of my team is on the 16 inch macbook.
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by neebz 6y ago
It's a bit strange but for me Google's biggest pull is live scores. I follow cricket, tennis and football. And all the dedicated websites are heavy and slow (cricinfo, espn etc). Google scores are quick to load and update even bef
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by neebz 7y ago
For me Hipmunk had the best calendar control. You could just type in your dates in pretty much any format and it was able to parse it. No need mess around with pop-ups and small buttons to switch months etc.
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by neebz 7y ago
How exactly do you use NewRelic to see what is blocking the event loop? I thought we always needed Flame Graphs for it (which NR doesn't provide)
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by neebz 7y ago
My father in the 80s was working at GE where he extensively used Lotus 1-2-3. He loved it so much that he bought a computer in 85 and used to use it at home as well. I always hated the boring blue and black screen. We moved back to Pakistan
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by neebz 8y ago
If anyone on mixpanel is reading this I would love to know how do they maintain mocks? We've been burnt so many times with outdated mocks in my experience that I've always tried to supplement our front-end tests with Selenium as t
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by neebz 8y ago
You can do what codecov does; They keep updating the same comment with the latest result.
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by neebz 9y ago
I loved remote work and did a lot of effort to ensure that we adopt a remote-friendly culture. However I will never get over the fact that we found some of our engineers ended up doing freelancing work, over-estimating work and basically ju
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by neebz 9y ago
Great to see Manuel Oriol get a mention. He was my thesis advisor at University of York and one of the best professors I've worked with.

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