ramijames

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by ramijames 5d ago
Not "a lot of". "The majority of". I've been doing development, in one way or another, since the 90s. I've worked with dozens of teams from enterprises to startups. Hundreds of developers. The quality of work h
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Forward Guidance: A Stronger Canada [video](youtube.com)
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by ramijames 14d ago
It's weird because it does on Android. I use Firefox on Android to watch YouTube videos without ads.
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by ramijames 15d ago
I recently did and I got dozens of emails asking me to change it back. It was a huge hassle. I'm going to respect the users and stick with the name.
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by ramijames 16d ago
I'd argue that our biggest vote is in how we bring up our kids, but I get your meaning.
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by ramijames 16d ago
Mmm, I doubt it. I have a weird background (product, development, writing + devrel). I write a lot of code and a lot of articles. I think there is a lot of overlap in how people who write code or articles (documentation, books, etc.) use AI
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by ramijames 16d ago
This should be the new norm. Vote with your wallet.
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by ramijames 19d ago
I can't imagine how potentially bad the codebase for PayPal must be.
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by ramijames 21d ago
I adopted Linux in 1998 (Slackware). It was super rough around the edges as a desktop, but absolutely an upgrade for a server. Especially since the alternative was Windows NT, which for an 18 year old, using shitty hardware, was out of my p
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by ramijames 22d ago
Ya, I'm sure the guy had his reasons. We were just kids. It's not like we were going to be buying a $4k computer. We were just a nuisance.
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by ramijames 22d ago
Ya, could be. We didn't get a copy at home for a while. Mostly, I remember when we got a new 486, which did have Windows 95. It was a multimedia machine with a CD-ROM and a fancy new copy of Myst. I remember being totally blown away.
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by ramijames 22d ago
I remember being 15, that August. We were excited for this release. My dorky friends and I went to a local computer store and tried to get the clerk to show us what Windows 95 was like. He had a pre-release version installed on one of their
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by ramijames 22d ago
I'm in Boston. I'll never earn enough to buy property here. I'll never have a mortgage.
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by ramijames 22d ago
Sorry, but I don't care what other people think. It's my money and I'm careful with it. The entire credit card industry is set up to squeeze out as much profit from people as possible. They offer discounts as an incentive, bu
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by ramijames 22d ago
I haven't considered this. I'm just one guy and juggling a bunch of different brands would be a lot of technical and marketing overhead I'm just not set up for right now. Probably worth thinking about though. Thanks for the i
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by ramijames 22d ago
I'm 46. I've never had a credit card. I have a bank account and a debit card. If I can't afford something, I don't buy it. You can just opt out of using credit cards.
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by ramijames 24d ago
I've actually been thinking that I should be putting out a monthly report that shows costs, revenue, and profit margin. It's negative right now, but I'm hoping to turn it around within the next six months. The scraping proble
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by ramijames 25d ago
It felt like they are targeting EE labs, because that's what they personally are using them for. It felt out of sync with the video of Workbench.. doing web development work. I don't know. I think it's a cool idea and maybe f
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by ramijames 25d ago
I really wouldn't know. I haven't had any real exposure to either. I visited Maine once. It seemed nice.
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by ramijames 25d ago
I usually compare the US to Switzerland. I live in Boston, but was born in Lugano (southern tip of Switzerland). Switzerland has an excellent quality of life, far better education system, remarkable stability, and amazingly good healthcare.
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by ramijames 25d ago
You're right, my answer wasn't clear. I'm saying that I've identified a few places that actively produce job listings with the sole intent of getting you to sign up for their service. It's a dark pattern and I'
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by ramijames 25d ago
Ya, I spent a month building a pretty complex scraper system that targets ~75-100K companies around the world and manually scrapes their career pages. It was just a fun thing for me to do and it morphed into something useful for others. I h
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by ramijames 26d ago
I appreciate that, and the feedback. Will find some time over the weekend to add it. We already have these facets, I just don't expose them in the filters. Good call.
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by ramijames 26d ago
I have a blacklist that filters them out at scrape-time.
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by ramijames 26d ago
I run a mid-sized job board ( https://miserablyunemployed.com/ ) and I deal with a substantial amount of reports from users about jobs that aren't accurate or don't exist. They get taken down immediately. The worse
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by ramijames 26d ago
I found the UI really interesting. Nice to see a group really trying something new. This really feels a lot like the raw experimentation of computer types and styles in the 80s. https://customer-i8ks9tgi5lkllj0i.cloudflarestream.
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by ramijames 29d ago
I remember the cost of RAM in the 80s and 90s. If I remember correctly my mom paid ~$1000 for 32mb of RAM in 94/95. Something or other like that. While they have spiked this year, the trend is towards more RAM for cheaper. https:&#x2F
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by ramijames 29d ago
I think right now AI is mostly providing a much better experience for using a computer for people that already have deep knowledge of how to use a computer. For example, no matter how many times I've tried to explain how to use it, my
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by ramijames 29d ago
Oh, I know, but the prices that I get on Amazon are definitely cheaper than what I can get from the real Wholefoods 500 meters away. It's absurdist.
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by ramijames 29d ago
Mostly I'm buying Amazon groceries because here in Boston if you don't have a car and access to Costco, wow are your local shops over-priced. Wholefoods, Star Market, and Trader Joes are all at least 25% more expensive.

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