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by Doches 1y ago
I wouldn't even say "corporations" because honestly, it's just the one corporation that's keeping the US tax system mired in pointless, manual complexity: Intuit.
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by Doches 1y ago
> This feature exists because: - Many iTerm2 features translate well to web browsing - It provides a unified terminal and browser experience - A former colleague suggested this idea in 2014 and I haven't been able to stop thinking a
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by Doches 1y ago
To be fair, both of those statements ("AI progress has plateaued" and "AI is taking jobs") can be true at once! There's almost certainly some disconnect between improving frontier models and UX vs. increasing adopti
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by Doches 1y ago
https://archive.is/52NXY
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AI is already taking jobs away from entry-level workers(axios.com)
3 points by Doches 1y ago|11 comments
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Introduction to SaaS Taxability in the US(stripe.com)
1 points by Doches 1y ago|0 comments
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by Doches 1y ago
I'll take that challenge. Even if you're 100% accurate that the advent of LLMs means that the field of software engineering has effectively devolved into prompt engineering and AI-wrangling, that is a change that we should fight w
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Why Silicon Valley's Most Powerful People Are So Obsessed with Hobbits(nytimes.com)
10 points by Doches 1y ago|0 comments
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by Doches 1y ago
> I’ll collect some money and retire in a couple years. Hopefully the open source world stays the same until then. As someone who explicitly did this and is now out the other side: can confirm, this is the way.
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by Doches 1y ago
I hereby propose "Tomcam's Iron Law of Revenue": if you have to ask how a product will make money, the answer is "Advertising."
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by Doches 1y ago
Visual Studio Code was first released in 2015; Intellij (the original JetBrains IDE) was first released in 2001. Even Atom -- the editor that Microsoft forked to make VSCode -- had its first public release in 2014. It's safe to say tha
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by Doches 1y ago
Why would they? If there’s one agency that’s spiritually aligned with DOGE — in terms of incompetence, malice, and sheer cruelty — it’s ICE/CBP.
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by Doches 1y ago
https://archive.is/0D1Ov
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by Doches 1y ago
> Builders can leverage their soft skills like taste, intuition and empathy into their product design. If you're 'vibe coding' are you really...building something? Kinda sorta devalues the term "builder", in my o
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An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force(aftermath.site)
443 points by Doches 1y ago|409 comments
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by Doches 2y ago
> his company is pure evil Would you mind elaborating on why you'd call Palantir 'evil' in particular? I wouldn't exactly hold the company up a a role model of good corporate citizenship, but I also wouldn't put
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by Doches 2y ago
As someone who lived in the sud-ouest during the yellow vests protests, "very very low tolerance for social violence" is...not my general impression of the French people. (Low tolerance for fascism, yes, obviously. But "socia
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by Doches 2y ago
Good thing not all of us write software for a business. I write little utilities for my parents, games for my son, a web shop for my wife. I write social spaces for myself and my friends. I write tools for myself. I write software for stran
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by Doches 2y ago
I think the final point illustrates this one pretty succinctly: 'what will be left will no longer give us the joy of hacking.' Personally I build my own version of almost every software tool for which I regularly (like, daily) use
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Trump just rebranded the U.S. Digital Service as 'DOGE'(fastcompany.com)
4 points by Doches 2y ago|2 comments
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Show HN: Animated SVG Avatar(codepen.io)
1 points by Doches 2y ago|0 comments
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Crimes Against Mimesis(groups.google.com)
2 points by Doches 2y ago|0 comments
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Home Depot software devs to spend 1 day per quarter working in a retail store(old.reddit.com)
4 points by Doches 2y ago|4 comments
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by Doches 2y ago
> We fight in the same wars, are owned by the same corporations, and sit beside each other at the same international bodies. > We have broadly similar attitudes to democracy. > We share the same aversion to enforcing our borders. &
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Pandemic Startups Are Thriving, and Helping to Fuel the Economy(nytimes.com)
1 points by Doches 2y ago|1 comments
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by Doches 2y ago
Good god, enough with the AI hypegen! Are you yourself an LLM? I'm going to be downvoted to oblivion for this comment (and I should be, because it's absolutely contrary to the rules and spirit of HN) but I am so, so tired of see
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by Doches 2y ago
Palantir has been doing exactly this for more than a decade...
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by Doches 2y ago
App Store policy (written or otherwise? It's hard to say.) only levies the 30% on digital goods delivered in the app. Uber, for example, doesn't pay 30% of rider fees to Apple. Patreon is in this weird gray area because you kind
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by Doches 2y ago
This article reads like an uneducated rant in so, so many ways. Apple rolling over its sleep and squashing Patreon isn't 'enshittification', it's just textbook monopoly abuse. And if you want to rail about the nuance of
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by Doches 2y ago
> It's special that we make our own tools I've always taken this to heart, but not necessarily with programming languages. Any piece of software that helps run my business that I can reasonably make and maintain myself, I do.

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