TheAndruu
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Working a corporate job is more like a marathon than a sprint.
As a SWE, it's a tormenting me about future job prospects as well
Additionally, there's always more work that can be done. Learn to balance 'good enough' vs 'perfect'
Posted by
TheAndruu on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @09:32AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://ai-clean.dev
I kept manually reformatting wrapped paragraphs and trailing whitespace every time I pasted Claude Code or Copilot CLI output into a Slack message or a GitHub issue. So I built a terminal command to run after copying that does the reformatting for me.Running in a terminal instead of using one of the browser-based formatting tools means less context switching. It handles both regular text,...
It's always bothered me that recipe sites are now full of SEO-targeted text you gotta scroll past just to find the actual recipe. Thanks for this.
I'm thankful Apple updated iPhones to include the feature where unrecognized callers are asked to state the reason for the call.
Honestly any db system is going to be at the mercy of inefficient queries. Regardless of what one uses, optimization will always be necessary
Whenever I start a side-project now, I think through my expectations and set a timeframe to abandon it depending on how those expectations work out.
It's refreshing to see a story like this make it to the top page on hackernews
I wouldn't sweat no 4-year AI degree. If a person wanted to advance the theory and innovation within AI, they'd prob want a PhD.
But sounds like you're talking about becoming a practitioner who leverages AI.
The great part about new technology developments like what's happened with AI the past few years is that there is a small pool of people who have experience in the tech.
So if you invested the time to learn and build prototypes on your own, you'd be very attractive to any employer seeking to add the skillsets you practiced.
Much of what is called 'science' is not, in fact, 'science'.
The bet is that none of your predictions come true
It's unfathomable that people buy into the climate change narrative.
It's like a breath of fresh air to hear someone make straightforward statements without fear.
Thanks for posting this. I had the same suspicion. Makes me wonder if they've teamed up with one of the other big tech companies to supplement their results.
Posted by
TheAndruu on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @10:27PM
from the 00e9e64bacfc74b06a1069830e97141ea323d9b8cc998d93da-apidata.googleusercontent.com dept.
Posted by
TheAndruu on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @10:40AM
from the github.com dept.
Posted by
TheAndruu on Sunday September 02, 2018 @09:25PM
from the backend-gl.appspot.com dept.
> "One idea was radio waves, but that was dismissed early on, says Taylor. “If you were in an apartment building, you might start changing the channel on the TV in the next room as well as your own.”
This reminded me how as kids in the 90s, the remote unlock button for our parents' car would set off our neighbor's car alarm if you were too close to them.
You just summed up what I basically wanted to know. Thanks.
I can't believe how many words are written about everything except his journey. I kept skimming and skimming but there's so much fluff
Add an environment variable for `GOBIN`, like this in `~/.bashrc`
export GOBIN=$GOPATH/bin
export PATH=$PATH:$GOBIN
Now, whenever you run `go install filename.go`, you'll automatically be able to run it anywhere on your machine.
Posted by
TheAndruu on Saturday March 03, 2018 @07:00AM
from the code.selfmadefighter.com dept.
The secret is to wake up very early before anyone else to get anything you want done.