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Re:Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes company database in 9 seconds
on Monday April 27, 2026 @04:01PM (#47926583)
it's spelled out in the linked tweet
https://x.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248
Re:On With Theo / T3.gg
on Sunday September 29, 2024 @08:57PM (#41692350)
Some feedback:
- The constant interrupting each other made it hard to listen to
- Also the interviewer Theo/T3.gg giving his CEO take on strategy to sandbag silverlake after finding out more context behind silverlake and automattic's relationship led me to have an unfavorable impression of the guy
Re:Ask HN: Why Is Pave Legal?
on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @04:29PM (#41515089)
Gusto is not pre-revenue, it has $500M+ in arr
https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/27/gusto-remote-deal-500m-rev...
Re:Crypto 'pig butchering' scam wrecks bank, sends ex-CEO to prison fo...
on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @08:11PM (#41315451)
I don’t think that’s fair to say the person is not engaging content in a meaningful way. Have you read the article? It’s pretty clean cut aside from understanding who the perpetrators were. The ceo of a bank got conned and went to prison, and there’s emphasis on calling the con a “pig butchering scam”
Re:Crypto 'pig butchering' scam wrecks bank, sends ex-CEO to prison fo...
on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @07:32PM (#41315220)
yeah I'm with you there. Pig butchering scam [1] is just a simple con, not sure why they're attributing any importance to the name of it
Re:Software I Pay For
on Thursday August 08, 2024 @06:08PM (#41196850)
Thanks, yeah it does sound like we share the same thoughts regarding paying for solutions that just work
I'm resistant to moving over to Apple because of pure vendor lock in, but also I can decouple passwords from my Apple ID. For example, I use a mac for work but I don't need to sign in to my personal apple id on my work laptop to get access to passwords.
Re:The Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town
on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @03:12AM (#40913315)
I read the entire article and that is tough. Up to 90 dB is wild.
Re:Five Things to Avoid in Ruby
on Thursday May 23, 2024 @07:09PM (#40460976)
I've been writing Ruby for the past 5 years or so and I think it's safe to say that these are very much opinionated takes on Ruby. There is no _one right way_.
A critique: 1. Verbosity vs Idiomatic, to me I find there are times the verbose approach is actually easier to read and understand
2. Long Expressions to Detect nil - this seems a bit like a strawman, sure there are better ways than to check the presence of an object/method chain, but doing the safe operator can bite you in the leg by compacting the complexity
3. Overuse of self - I skimmed through the Rectangle class declaration... it reminds me of writing Java. I rarely see self#method= used
4. Collecting Results in Temporary Variables - I think this is debatable, there's value in condensing method implementations when it makes sense, but also having temporary variable assignment can lead to better readability
Re:Thorium: Cross-platform patched Chromium fork
on Monday May 20, 2024 @07:53PM (#40422156)
I found the original commit [1] since the other Github link in the thread shows the removal. I'm not entirely sure what the thought process was around adding it to begin with
[1] https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium/commit/26655c920b6a9e4...
edit: the commit link is nsfw
Re:A decent VS Code and Ruby on Rails setup
on Thursday February 22, 2024 @02:38AM (#39464297)
Gusto adopted it when I was there (I left at the end of 2022). Like other comments, it's a bit polarizing but I found it to be useful when working in large codebases because you one didn't have to reason about return types and could just read them from function signatures.
Getting it to play nicely with Rails and other gems that did metaprogramming magic was a constant pain in the butt though.
Re:Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?
on Friday December 29, 2023 @09:35AM (#38805346)
I’m sure you can find individual coaches but the cost will exceed what most people are willing to spend or invest. Take executive coaches for example, they exist but from what I understand they’re largely private coaching and cost $$$.
Re:Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?
on Friday December 29, 2023 @09:10AM (#38805025)
My take is that there’s such variance in people’s skill levels and so it’s really hard to cater educational programming content. Personally, I’ve found getting introductory books/courses and skimming through it until you hit something that you don’t understand and then diving deeper into that bit.
Re:Scientist: A Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical paths
on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @10:27PM (#38272958)
I’ve used this gem to remove a Rails Model that was heavily tangled and used in production. It had a bit of a learning curve, such as seeing how errors get handled in try {} blocks, but really nice otherwise when doing the equivalent of open heart surgery.
Re:We migrated our back end from Vercel to Fly.io and the challenges w...
on Sunday October 29, 2023 @08:30PM (#38064300)
I’m a bit out of the loop but I thought heroku died or is languishing under Salesforce. That’s my current perception of everything and no longer see it recommended in HN threads. Hopefully this does not come off as an attack (it’s not).
Re:Ask HN: Help with Gusto? 2021 payroll being double reported to IRS
on Friday January 27, 2023 @06:31PM (#34553262)
It’s unfortunate but tweeting or getting attention on LinkedIn can get you greater visibility. Depending on your company size too I would imagine you would have higher level of support.
Am ex gusto
Re:Microsoft is killing custom domain names in Outlook.com
on Thursday November 03, 2022 @09:47PM (#33460771)
Have you tried this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32793838#32797052
Re:Zoho became a $1B company without external investment
on Sunday September 11, 2022 @06:00PM (#32803696)
I think that's correct. It should be free though.
Re:Zoho became a $1B company without external investment
on Sunday September 11, 2022 @01:24AM (#32797052)
I came across this discussion and was shocked as well. Turns out there's now a button here: https://support.google.com/a/answer/2855120?product_name=Unu...
"I used my account for personal use"
RRF and Yagni in Practice: A Lesson with Kent Beck
Re:Adding a fiber link to my home network
on Sunday August 09, 2020 @01:43PM (#24101331)
Yeah I got the same feeling that this is an ad, or at least in part sponsored by fs.
Re:Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce
on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @03:24PM (#23083804)
A lot of tech is getting hit, it seems like Airbnb is more in the spotlight
Re:Trends in Show HN posts
on Monday April 27, 2020 @02:18PM (#22998405)
It would make a lot of sense if the number of active users have grown over the years. Which I suspect it has.
Re:Zoom has a signed binary that runs any unsigned script
on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @01:47PM (#22751465)
what version of macos are you using?
Re:Airbnb Racks Up Hundreds of Millions in Losses Due to Coronavirus
on Friday March 20, 2020 @02:20PM (#22639984)
> Airbnb was never profitable (I think)
Do you have any sources for this?
Re:Launch HN: Dex (YC S19) – personal CRM that reminds you to keep in ...
on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @05:56PM (#20700407)
What's behind the name?
Re:Bitcoin expert scams a scammer, donates the money to charity
on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @04:49PM (#20638884)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Venezuela
It's highly probable - food or anything needed for daily life
Re:Bitcoin expert scams a scammer, donates the money to charity
on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @04:44PM (#20638809)
He scammed a scammer for $50, that's it?
Re:Don't donate canned goods to food banks (2017)
on Monday July 15, 2019 @01:49PM (#20443315)
Consider watching this video on rethinking charities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfAzi6D5FpM
Re:Justin.tv's Live Video Broadcasting Architecture (2010)
on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @05:35PM (#20349062)
Justin Kan goes a bit into Kyle's accelerated learning - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzyatiQrQlQ