thr0w

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by thr0w 8d ago
That's crazy. I did a Notes migration to a custom Java/Red Hat platform 20 years ago, even at that time it was like "can't believe these guys are on Lotus Notes". I remember Howard Stern used to reference LN on his
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by thr0w 11d ago
> acquiring assets that can make the money for you Any ideas beyond real estate?
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by thr0w 1mo ago
It is rage inducing.
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by thr0w 1mo ago
> And more directly, I believe good software engineering is really hard. It really is, if there's one sentiment that's remained consistent in me over time it's awe at how harsh of a mistress software is. As good as coding
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by thr0w 1mo ago
> Call me a gatekeeper if you want but, we ended up with a lot of people that just can't do the job. The vast majority! I think I've come across 1 or 2 competent engineers in 20+ years. It's a miracle that software works,
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by thr0w 2mo ago
> "Why am I paying a consultant for something AI can do in 15 minutes?" Tech consulting takes all kinds of forms. I've been doing it for a while. A lot of clients aren't thinking about time spent. A lot of clients hav
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by thr0w 2mo ago
> Hmm - I need to map these results onto objects I can use. What sql client is going to hand you raw text? > Hmm - wouldn’t it be great if the object tracked changes and could save itself. Lost me there.
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by thr0w 3mo ago
> The founder is very good. He builds a plan that, on paper, is flawless and airtight Premise is laughable right out of the gate.
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by thr0w 3mo ago
> I feel like we as a profession generally don't like sloppiness Thanks for that, needed a deep guttural laugh.
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by thr0w 3mo ago
> The people who most argue for vibe coding will themselves never accept responsibility for the technical outcomes. This is right, and don’t think this isn’t all partially fueled by spite. I’m not sure if engineers understand how much th
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by thr0w 3mo ago
> grinds its way to profitability over 3 years, can't raise, and grows 15% / year. You've been a part of some successful ventures! I've worked at places that grind their way to an uneventful shutdown over 3 years, can
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by thr0w 3mo ago
Am I being advertised an ARG via HN thread?
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by thr0w 3mo ago
> LaMDA Wow thanks for reminding me of this. Remember that leaked story of an engineer claiming it was sentient, even before ChatGPT came out?
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by thr0w 3mo ago
> Nowadays carriages are split between 'normal' and 'quiet'... And the number of quiet carriages seems to have increased over time... It's like there are forces in society which try to prevent people with differe
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by thr0w 3mo ago
> Each business domain is divided into a fixed set of layers, with strictly validated dependency directions and a limited set of permissible edges. These constraints are enforced mechanically via custom linters (Codex-generated, of cours
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by thr0w 3mo ago
> No project "needs 10GB" to compile You've never tried to compile NextJS slop, have you? It absolutely can take that much. All those junkdevs have 64GB in their MBPs for a reason. NodeJS max heap is now dynamic because of
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by thr0w 4mo ago
Albert, nice to meet you. Let me be the first to say I'm impressed by your generous casual dress policy for remote work. My current employer makes me wear a 9-piece tuxedo with cummerbund while I work from the comfort of my home office
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by thr0w 4mo ago
Hard to have sober talk about this since a lot of discourse is AI psychosis vs. AI naysayers. Does software quality seem to have taken a jump in the past few years to anyone? Not to me, seems to be getting worse. Think that's a decent
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by thr0w 4mo ago
I run it, it's good other than WSL.
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by thr0w 4mo ago
You are. Human bookkeeper makes a mistake? You're liable. Accountant makes a mistake? You're liable. Have you ever run a business?
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by thr0w 4mo ago
Yeah, if you continuously wake up around 3am you are anxious/stressed/depressed. Whole article is overthought/engineering mindset nonsense.
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by thr0w 5mo ago
You should be able to open a brokerage account. You generally need ~2 years of business history to get a loan.
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by thr0w 5mo ago
We sound similar, I've had some adventures on AngelList. Made an absolute killing, back when that was possible. My total lifetime "ate it" figure is only $2k, and even that one the client kind of eventually offered to pay, bu
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by thr0w 6mo ago
> What is there to be left behind from? Employment?
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by thr0w 6mo ago
You sweet, innocent child. Managers understand that metrics are meaningless. The idea is to have something to point at to scare engineers into jumping higher.
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by thr0w 7mo ago
Who cares. Prescribed workflows apply solutions from the wrong direction. Determine what's impeding your organization, devise a solution. The last guy I encountered who evangelized something like this had smart frames and a Lovecraft a
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by thr0w 7mo ago
People are in denial and use humor to deflect.
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by thr0w 10mo ago
Was Hegelian dialectic on your card? You do bad stuff, and then you do good stuff. That's what all of these people are into.
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by thr0w 10mo ago
> But if you’re down, Spotify is down, social media is down… then “the internet is broken” and you don’t look so bad. In my direct experience, this isn't true if you're running something even vaguely mission-critical for your c
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by thr0w 10mo ago
LLMs will not abstract away framework choice. They will concrete it away. React is for humans. You'll know we're out of the AI stoneage when coding models just generate direct machine instruction, because their output won't n

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