westoque

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by westoque 2y ago
i've worked on many legacy code bases and i think an underrated skill that you need is courage. courage to be able to push changes you think could be breaking changes but always be optimistic that you to be able to fix as soon as possi
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by westoque 2y ago
reminds me of the anthropic claude jailbreak challenge which only pays around $10,000. if you drive the price up, i'm pretty sure you'll get some takers. incentives are not aligned.
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by westoque 2y ago
I'm a CTO and scaled multiple companies from zero to multiples of TBs of data (also to millions in revenue). I also worked on companies such as yourself that have an existing solution and want to revamp their entire technology base. Th
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by westoque 2y ago
NVDA market cap for sure is bonkers but AI is here to stay. Anytime you question the future, think if you can see yourself in "that" future. For me, AI is already a part of my workflow and it's beneficial to my daily life. Fr
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by westoque 3y ago
just basing my assumptions on: - https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/08/apple_web_apps_eu/ - https://itnext.io/apple-wants-to-kill-pwas-0895be2e497b i really hope they don't as it d
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by westoque 3y ago
alternatively you can get away from the app size bloat by using X as a PWA (progressive web app). in iOS, this would use safari as the app container and you would just have the assets to download for dependencies. it's sad however that
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by westoque 3y ago
Most of the speed I believe is from using the server iodine https://github.com/boazsegev/iodine which is a wrapper around facil.io https://facil.io that is built using C. Great project either way!
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by westoque 3y ago
I was using the Kinesis Advantage 2 (KA2) for the longest while 8+ years now, and then recently upgraded to the Kinesis Advantage 360 and the KA2 was still hands down the best keyboard that I used. I still switch between the KA2 and KA360 b
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by westoque 3y ago
regarding concurrency, language plays an important role and pretty much dictates how code is written which is i believe where it has most of the frustration. in erlang it’s in a functional style, in javascript it’s in an asynchronous style.
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by westoque 3y ago
another similar concept i have found to be effective is to “teach what you learn”, i have noticed that it takes some good understanding of the topic you want to teach in order to communicate that effectively as well.
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by westoque 3y ago
I've seen this in person. It's such a beautiful piece! Note the details in the background and the 3D perspective of the frame. Easy to miss but when you focus, you see great thought and detail that goes into the piece.
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by westoque 3y ago
same with high end luxury watches. i think that these companies just add another layer on top of the standard veblen goods definition making it even more exclusive/desirable, and therefore even harder to get one.
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by westoque 3y ago
this. properly made abstractions are actually more maintainable and easier to manage. for ex, take anybody learning programming about writing to a file, if you write your code using ruby, it would be a lot safer and maintainable than the C
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by westoque 3y ago
As a software engineer, I wonder how accurate they stuck to their said schedule at the last page.
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by westoque 3y ago
I'm a fan of RSpec and any BDD (Behavioral Driven Development) type of framework. You are correct that they all do the same thing, but for me everything boils down to which one provides the quickest understanding of the code by the rea
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by westoque 3y ago
> When having conversations in HN does it bother you that you have no way to know if you're talking to a real human, not hiding behind fake usernames? On HN, I'm not bothered at all. If I see the username "dang" for e
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by westoque 3y ago
Funny. I see it differently. I pay for the blue check because it adds legitimacy. If I'm replying and having conversations with people with similar blue checks then I know I'm talking to real humans not hiding behind fake username
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by westoque 3y ago
When Teslas were hot, it was really hard to buy one in my area, it involved using the search function on the Tesla website, inputting my zipcode and waiting every few hours until new cars are out. I basically made a script that texts me if
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by westoque 4y ago
random but this is probably a good use of blockchain tech. a smart contract that stores the notes and unlocks using a key that is given to a loved one. perfect for use case for a lasting note. only time this goes down is if the entire netwo
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by westoque 4y ago
i actually support the pay to verify feature. my reasoning for this is it gives authenticity to the user. if the user is verified then i know that the user is most likely not a bot account and gives some credibility. could this be free? cer
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by westoque 4y ago
I was CTO of a company that was doing consumer text messaging through Twilio. I would say Twilio actually does a good job of monitoring messages going through its system. Our system at times were used by spammers to send spam text and Twili
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by westoque 4y ago
Same here. I am a big proponent of state machines. I have found that state machines bring sanity to an otherwise complex situation. For example, most inexperienced developers will check presence of certain fields to imply where someone is i
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by westoque 4y ago
I am this exact position. I had a separate account (work related) and personal one. It boiled down to me knowing that I value influence and authenticity more so I used my personal account. It's easier to make arguments and discussions
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by westoque 4y ago
this is one of the reasons i changed my OS to linux since docker there works natively. i believe there will always be a bottleneck for peak performance on macOS until we are able to run natively, not virtualized.
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by westoque 4y ago
> I don't care about money I’ve heard this statement used frequently in business. I think this statement is incomplete… what if instead you said something like “I don’t care about money as long as you get it done before the deadlin
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by westoque 4y ago
Thank you :)
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by westoque 4y ago
I've been a CTO for 5+ years and have grown a company from 1 to 15+ engineers. I agree that a CTO SHOULD be technical but it shouldn't be their only skill. The CTO's skill actually varies depending on the stage of the company
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by westoque 4y ago
Ruby. To quote the creator Yukihiro Matsumoto: > I believe that the purpose of life is, at least in part, to be happy. Based on this belief, Ruby is designed to make programming not only easy but also fun. Writing Ruby code feels natural
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by westoque 4y ago
Related. I also have a similar experience when I worked as a contractor for [big ecommerce] for simply building a JavaScript loader that loaded ads on their ecommerce platform using JSONP. That ad loader got millions of views and pretty muc
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by westoque 4y ago
as an aside, i found this bit from the link for https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows : > Some build-time tools will send telemetry to Microsoft by default. can we please stop collecting telemetry by default an

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