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Re:Anthropic Cracking Down on Video Game Rewrites on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:19AM (#50305169)
You can write the code yourself you know?
Re:Aidlc: Adaptive workflow steering rules for AI coding agents on Thursday October 15, 2026 @09:05AM (#50103103)
Wow does it really have 479.001.600 experts?
Re:Programming Isn't Special on Friday October 09, 2026 @03:17PM (#50025388)
We're in the late stages of capitalism, at a point where everyone is scrambling to extract some wealth, before everything comes crumbling down. No one is even remotely thinking about art of the craft now, or programmer happiness or whatever, and you're branded a loser if you think about that stuff.
Re:A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:58PM (#49984039)
I don't know, one thing going for him is he's actively learning by doing. A lot of people appears to have mentally checked out and just press the "Solve this ticket" button and never learn anything new now. Programming skills might still be valuable down the line, he's betting on that I suppose.
Re:NPM's release cooldown is security theater on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @12:09PM (#48994222)
I don't agree with this take, there are a bunch of security companies that are screening new versions of packages looking for vulnerabilities, so waiting a bit before upgrading to the lastest package is miles better than immediately upgrading.
Re:$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on Friday July 17, 2026 @05:26AM (#48945120)
The physical limitations work with you, not against you. Have you ever read a book? The physical limitations is the blank paper, you need to be creative enough with the words you need to express for your vision to come to life.
Re:A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro on Saturday May 09, 2026 @01:52PM (#48076819)
You're comparing a gpu to a human brain?
Re:I don’t believe in sprints on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @08:20AM (#33094457)
Sprints are a good tool to transform bad teams into better teams. No amount of process and tools is going to convert a good team into being a great one.

Great teams do not need additional processes to deliver value and they usually are more of an obstacle. Clear goals and a vision are much more important, as well as having an environment where the decision makers are the one implementing the solution.

Re:Google Analytics Opt Out on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @05:54AM (#25441162)
You can set your router with a firewall NAT rule to capture all DNS requests and redirect them to use Pi-Hole. Your tv will think it talks to 8.8.8.8 when in reality it will talk to your server.
Twilio[1] and MessageBird[2] come to my mind as competitors. They both are a "Voice & SMS" communications platform and I guess the innovative part is that they provide an easy way of connecting companies to their customers via multiple channels.

[1] https://www.twilio.com/ [2] https://messagebird.com/en/

Re:Systems Design for Advanced Beginners on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @03:11AM (#23904925)
Yes, I think the second diagram that you showed is the preferred way of doing things, since using or "dogfooding" the client libraries will ensure they are always tested and correct, plus you'll get immediate feedback from the other developers who work on the apps as well.
Re:New Microsoft Edge on Thursday July 16, 2020 @07:05AM (#23857699)
There is an explicit section for privacy on the page as I can see, there is even a dedicated page to it: https://microsoftedgewelcome.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy

Also they wrote a privacy whitepaper for Edge as well: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/privacy-whit...

Re:CRDTs: The Hard Parts [video] on Saturday July 11, 2020 @01:03PM (#23803616)
Oh man, I was just about to recommend this book, you beat me to it. I am currently reading it, and I cannot recommend it enough. If you're interested in distributed systems and learning about database fundamentals, it really is a must read.
Re:RediSearch – Redis Powered Search Engine on Thursday July 09, 2020 @03:44AM (#23777893)
You can read about their licenses here: https://redislabs.com/legal/licenses/

  Redis Modules created by Redis Labs (e.g. RediSearch, RedisGraph, RedisJSON, RedisML, RedisBloom) are licensed under the Redis Source Available License (RSAL).
Here is their RSAL license: https://redislabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/redis-sourc...

  - Preventing me from switching to it: once a tool (ie. pencil) is used for a stroke, it reverts back to mouse cursor (I'd rather have it stay as pencil and hit 1 for it to switch to a cursor)
There is a little lock icon next to the drawing tools which enables you to lock a tool, so it won't revert back.
Re:Instrumentation in Go on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @05:11AM (#23308869)
Is opentelemetry ready for production usage? As my understanding this project is a merge between OpenCensus and OpenTracing, but it’s still in beta and the documentation is really lacking. Does anyone have any hands-on experience with this library?
We've been trying different tools, and we've found Excalidraw (https://excalidraw.com/) to be satisfying our needs. It's relatively new and albeit it's lacking a few features, it has proven really good for drawing diagrams and designing new solutions like ui mockups and stuff like that.
Re:X on Thursday May 21, 2020 @08:24AM (#23257551)
Reminds me of this comment from Reddit https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5penft/parallelizing_...

Go allows characters from the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics for identifiers, so you can define structs or methods like this:

  type ImmutableTreeListᐸElementTᐳ struct { 
You can pretend that go has generics :)
Re:Building Uber’s Go Monorepo with Bazel on Thursday May 14, 2020 @12:19PM (#23181381)
I've made a similar post about building a Go monorepo using Bazel two years ago, check it out - https://filipnikolovski.com/posts/managing-go-monorepo-with-....

We've been using Bazel not just to build and test our Go apps, but to build docker images, compile proto files, even deploy to k8s. It's really versatile and the developers only need to know one tool to build and test the whole environment.

Re:Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? on Thursday May 14, 2020 @06:15AM (#23177687)
I'm building a web app for sending newsletters with AWS Simple Email Service https://github.com/mailbadger/app. It's still a work in progress, I'm still a couple of features away from releasing a beta version, but basically you'll be able to import your subscribers, group them, create templates and create and send campaigns. After that you can see statistics such as bounces, complaints etc.

I'm using Go for the backend and React on the frontend, along with MySQL and NATS for message queueing.

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