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Re:Uncle Bob Martin's UML Tool to Manage Grok AI Agents on Friday September 18, 2026 @04:55PM (#49760136)
Readme seems unreadable to me!
The former is in the prior art section at 2:24!
Thanks for taking the time to spell this out and sorry for making it necessary. As it happens, I thought the product looked cool, so a belated congratulations to the founders, and an apology to frabonacci! I'm glad there was a benign explanation for what I was seeing, and I'm a little disappointed in my lack of imagination. Dead internet may be coming, but it's not here yet ;-)
This is amazing, especially if it helps facilitate astroturfing, such as these comments made by fresh users, all with AI-generated responses from frabonacci:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=SkylerJi

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=zwenbo

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ekarabeg

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jameskuj

Re:Typesetting the LaTeX Way (2013) on Sunday March 31, 2024 @01:47PM (#39886320)
What a bait-and-switch Google Chrome has been...
Re:Use weird tests to capture tacit knowledge on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @09:03AM (#39765849)
Another thing that came to mind: do-nothing scripting[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29083367

Re:Use weird tests to capture tacit knowledge on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @06:20AM (#39764638)
More info on pytest's test parametrization: https://docs.pytest.org/en/7.1.x/how-to/parametrize.html
Re:Enough with the dead butterflies (2017) on Sunday March 03, 2024 @07:53PM (#39585980)
I see dead butterflies.
Re:Bcachefs Merged into the Linux 6.7 Kernel on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @09:38AM (#38084614)
[delayed]
Re:A literate Org doc on building Emacs from source on Sunday October 29, 2023 @07:52AM (#38057655)
You have to allow sudo without entering a password to use this document (to build Emacs)? I wonder if gksudo could not be used instead…
Re:How to See Bright, Vivid Images in Your Mind’s Eye on Sunday October 01, 2023 @12:27AM (#37722537)
Rubbing one's eyes is not entirely innocuous, as it can induce or worsen astigmatism.
Re:If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them? on Thursday August 03, 2023 @04:43AM (#36983086)
Can you share an example?
Help run an ArchiveTeam Warrior VM pointed to the URLTeam project. They’re archiving all URL shorteners.

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/URLTeam

Re:Duolingo Max, a learning experience powered by GPT-4 on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @10:54PM (#35163161)
+1 for language transfer, great execution of a great method.
Also, if you haven't seen it before, read this seminal procrastination post by Wait But Why[1].

Of course it's just a theory, but one that clicked for me and many others. It gives some helpful names to many of the things you experience when procrastinating. Afterwards you'll be able to recognize, "oh, I'm in the dark playground again" and possibly be able to do something about it.

[1] https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrasti...

Hey, I own the existence of my thesis (and resulting degree) to Beeminder[0]. I also made use of someone who was my supporter. Someone not involved in any capacity with the project, but who I could send status reports to. This is related to the concept of a body double (search for "body doubling adhd"). Reply if you want to know more or want a chat.

[0] https://www.beeminder.com/home

Re:D2 language, open source alternative to PlantUML on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @09:04AM (#34065998)
Thanks for sharing, looks really nice. Way less verbose and more intuitive syntax than PlantUML. Also seems to drop some vestigial UML aspects, like those default icons in the top right of PlantUML boxes (although I don't really grok UML). Title is somewhat ambiguous, since PlantUML is open source as well.

I have a standing Google alert for UML threads, because I've been looking for a long while for a good resource on what makes a good diagram. Not how to make it or what to make it with; like a Tufte for diagrams... Anyway D2 seems to make it easy to make clean diagrams.

Re:iOS Ships Dvorak, Finally on Monday October 10, 2022 @08:49AM (#33150678)
Well put...
Re:iOS Ships Dvorak, Finally on Monday October 10, 2022 @08:48AM (#33150671)
That's one hell of a mind fuck! I wouldn't know what to do with that keyboard (at first) and I've been typing with Dvorak for ages. If you're touch typing, you never look at the keyboard, so I just don't recognize this layout (visually). Still, great news.

If I had a tablet device or regularly used one, I'd be able to get used to the seeing the layout. Maybe then there'd be a improvement when thumb-typing on a phone-sized device, but I agree with the other commenter that it probably wouldn't be worth the hassle. Something to check out in a couple of years, when I end up with a device that runs iOS 16.

Re:Extending org-mode to handle YouTube links on Friday September 23, 2022 @07:35AM (#32950479)
Nice work! Do you automatically convert the links on yanking?

How has being free from employment been working out so far?

Re:Welcome to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to PlantUML on Monday June 20, 2022 @07:18AM (#31808939)
What I'm forever looking for is a software-agnostic write-up of what makes a good and clear diagram/flowchart. Something like Tufte, but a little more specific. Most UML tutorials focus on the software (and those early pipe-dreams of generating code from diagrams). Anyone has any pointers?
git-annex has metadata driven views[0], which might be what you're looking for. When you're looking at a view, copying or moving a file to a folder "tagname", adds the tag "tagname" to that file. That seems easily scriptable to tag by media type/extension...

[0] https://git-annex.branchable.com/tips/metadata_driven_views/

Ask HN: Is Ruby on Rails still relevant?

I'm currently going through Destroy All Software's screencasts [0]. They're heavily based on Ruby + Rails and TDD, although most of the concepts probably do do translate to other languages.Since the screencasts are over 10 years old now, I'm wondering if Ruby on Rails is still going strong. What resources would you recommend to get into Ruby/Rails specifically? Same question for TDD? Thanks![0]...

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Re:Learning at Work on Monday March 28, 2022 @09:17AM (#30830215)
See also "How I learned to program (danluu.com)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16010173 and "Why you should maybe not work so hard (johnwhiles.com)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30829243

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