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Re:Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @03:50PM (#50077621)
I honestly think that these AI companies really messed up their futures by adopting a token model. They should have gone the route of IBM and offered consultant services.
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:57PM (#50008384)
Don't worry, I'm sure their leadership is thinking "AI Bots" instead of remote workers.
Re:Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro? on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @05:40PM (#48468152)
I use it every day, sometimes for hours. Once I embraced that fact that my family goes to bed before I do, I use it watch all of my "nerdy" shows at night. During the day it's been really great for having a large desktop that I can see throughout the house. For gaming, I use the geforce now service and a playstation controller. It's been quite fun!
Re:Sagrada Família Lego set on Thursday June 04, 2026 @01:59PM (#48402217)
This is exactly how it happens at my house. I purposely stick to to the $20-$40 boxes for this reason. Over $100, that's not a toy anymore for me. That price range becomes a collectors figurine.
Re:The User Is Visibly Frustrated on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @04:29PM (#48285555)
This is basically the Linus Torvalds method. We could take a page out of FOSS here.
Re:I built a programming language using Claude Code on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @01:27PM (#47326264)
I'm imagining the amount of energy required to power the datacenter so that we can produce isEven() utility methods.
Just ban social media entirely. You would find a lot benefits to society for doing exactly that.
Re: on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @06:24PM (#46609956)
I keep reading comments that claim GenAI's positive traits, but this usually amounts to some toy PoC that very eerily mirrors work found in code bootcamps. You want an app that has logins and comments and upvotes? GenAI is going to look amazing setting up a non-relational db to your node backend.
Re:Microsoft lowers AI software growth targets on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @12:46PM (#46137537)
Is 8 where they leaned heavily into touch screen boxes?
Re:Claude for Chrome on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @05:12PM (#45032397)
I've had this conversation a couple of times now. If AI can just scan a video and provide bullet points, what's the point of the video at all? Same with UI/UX in general. Without real users, then it starts to feel meaningless.

Some media is cool because you know it was really difficult to put it together or obtain the footage. I think of Tom Cruise and his stunts in Mission Impossible as an example. They add to the spectacle because you know someone actually did this and it was difficult, expensive, and dangerous. (Implying a once in a lifetime moment.) But yeah, AI offers ways to make this visual infinitely repeatable.

Re:AdonisJS on Thursday June 20, 2024 @12:26PM (#40740475)
Anyone else see these types of announcement posts, and it's like they already have thousands of users? Where do y'all learn about these projects so early?
This feels like disabling unit tests in order to get tests to pass. I've yet to see this strategy not blow up later.
I have read many comments on this thread pointing towards other calendar libraries. I appreciate projects like this because I believe it's healthy for our industry to rethink "solved" issues. You put a cool spin on this topic and I hope that it taught you lots while building it.
Re:We're All Bored of Culture on Monday November 13, 2023 @04:24PM (#38255620)
Not that I believe the OP's statements, but I think the idea is that 'inclusive' cultures live at the intersection of many circles rather than their union.
Re:People who still rely on paper on Monday September 25, 2023 @03:23PM (#37649183)
I'm in the same situation as you. Though I think the major factor is that the physicality of handwriting the notes helps me.
I used Ramda for 3+ years. I like somethings but overall wouldn't pick it up again. FP in general makes it really easy for people to write inefficient passes over data. In addition, debugging or code reviewing ramdajs code can be painful as you often have several layers of call stack with meaningless (curryN, pipe, map, pick) functions. I say meaningless because when your whole app uses ramda, you find it very difficult to know what is being map'd or curry'd.
Re:A Tiny Grammar of Graphics on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @07:20PM (#31747216)
The thing I hate about all of these GoG approaches is the wastefulness of the translation of data + style into visual representations. For example, if you have a dashboard with 8+ charts visible, the scaffolding of the charting library starts to weigh down the system in both performance and memory usage. VegaLite, especially, seems to make a copy of the data being passed in. Looking at the examples of ObservablePlot, I can see more wasteful processing in the form of dataset.map(d => d.property) sprinkled in several places.
Ex-googler here. I hated the promotion process with a passion. 20 pages of "evidence" which is usually just links to green/blue docs, CLs, and just flowery puff language to argue your case. My org skipped the promo committee process at the start of the pandemic when I was up for it. When we had teammate that changed teams join us for a virtual meet up to tell us _he_ got promo in his org. I quit the next week.
Re:A Better Git Flow on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @06:59PM (#30002292)
Yeah I'm also confused why making multiple unrelated changes is celebrated with a special gitflow. Two changes == Two PRs.
This is fantastic news as my wife has been complaining about scalpers on apps like Mercari and Poshmark.
Re:What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:26PM (#29826524)
I agree.

However, having just recently replaced a couch from a chain retailer, I can attest that they are pretty much made from paper mache.

Re:A record 4.5M workers quit their jobs in November on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @12:51PM (#29812372)
You could bring a TON of value to a company and get paid peanuts. Let's not assume a just world here.
From my experience the ones pushing for these ideas are the fresh grad PMs trying to do something big for "perf". The whole platform feels like Waymo, driverless.
Re:FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine on Monday August 23, 2021 @01:33PM (#28279266)
With its approval, I'm going to ask my pediatrician to get them to approve use in our younger kid.
Re:FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine on Monday August 23, 2021 @01:32PM (#28279240)
Great. When can my younger kid get it?
Re:Gnome Shell on the Apple M1, bare metal on Sunday August 22, 2021 @08:10PM (#28270974)
I am forever in awe of the engineers that can work with the low-level bits and make things like this happen. I'm a deer in the headlights whenever I see addrs and `eax 0xDAFAC000...`
This is why I don't interview at FB. I always told people the interviews I've had with FB just seems ridiculously off. Your story kind of corroborates that.
Re:Bitcoin Is Time on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @05:05PM (#26321631)
I'm really glad someone can articulate what I've bee thinking for a long time. It started when I realized that bitcoin was being used to fuel dark markets then again when I saw that anyone was able to make a coin and pre-mine thousands before sharing with others struck with FOMO.
Re:How hustle culture took over advertising on Monday November 05, 2018 @03:42PM (#18385774)
They would make money by selling a product.
Re:Carbon Removal Technologies on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @03:32PM (#18286635)
Feed it into a massive underground greenhouse?

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