Solvency

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811.
by Solvency 3y ago
This sounds much more effective than when the Norwegian government issued grant funding to some crazy lady in South America who would "whisper" sweet nothings to wildlife through a webcam from her house. I'm not even joking.
812.
by Solvency 3y ago
What does C++ grilling look like? Types of questions they asked etc?
813.
by Solvency 3y ago
They've saved money, sure. They've also added toxic fat soluble molecules and heavy metals into the soil. What a win for the people! This is the same city that made an ecological disaster by dumping thousands of tires into their o
814.
by Solvency 3y ago
Moreover, what is he coding. Because there is zero chance in hell Google is getting a multiple of that cost back in value from him. The value for them is that he's not working for a competitor. That's it.
815.
by Solvency 3y ago
Since when is the CTO expected to be to be a rockstar programmer? CTOs communicate technology matters to the board that they are beholden to. And they manage the technology teams within a small region towards the top of their departments py
816.
by Solvency 3y ago
Maybe for CRUD business apps this is true, but there are constant innovations and research papers coming from rockstars in dark corners of the world. All of the time.
817.
by Solvency 3y ago
Why does HN support and believe everything the WHO says when it comes to transmissible viruses but not anything else? Honest question.
818.
by Solvency 3y ago
How ironic, because the Airbnb cleaning fees and requisite cleaning chore lists are skyrocketing.
819.
by Solvency 3y ago
Seems pretty common to claim <technology X is both easy to learn yet extremely powerful>.
820.
by Solvency 3y ago
It took me 4 months to see an endocrinologist. Some things suck.
821.
by Solvency 3y ago
All of this is exactly why mainframes still exist and still excel at what they do.
822.
by Solvency 3y ago
Have you played D3? It's insanely polished.
823.
by Solvency 3y ago
Relative to its own perspective and contextual existence, sure, yes it is. Does that intimidate your human consciousness for some reason?
824.
by Solvency 3y ago
Why have there been thousands of overnight AI/GPT startups and products in the last few months and NOT a single simple intuitive "fine tuning wizard" app? That seems like such an obvious glaring gap.
825.
by Solvency 3y ago
Seems like a missed opportunity to make it Gua.
826.
by Solvency 3y ago
No. They are an IP and merchandising company. That's where the money is.
827.
by Solvency 3y ago
So why does so much amazing music continue to get made, daily, as opposed to amazing journalistic content? Writing and producing music is no less challenging and time-consuming.
828.
by Solvency 3y ago
What's the short version of why Meta did this, wrapping so much up in this internal nonstandard format?
829.
by Solvency 3y ago
There is an entirely possible and alternative funding model that perpetually allocates a responsible amount of incremental funds for the purposes of novel R&D. It's trivial to imagine how a responsible incremental funding approach
830.
by Solvency 3y ago
This is the cold truth. The entire process of raising money in the modern software world has nothing to do with creating a better product and business specifically. It's simply the de facto step-by-step playbook process one follows if
831.
by Solvency 3y ago
Virtually the entire VFX industry has shifted to remote. Let that sync in. The most hardware/GPU intensive industry of creatives dealing with ungodly complex technical pipelines, terabytes of 32bit EXR frames of rendered data, Houdini
832.
by Solvency 3y ago
Wait, 4 days ago we were on the cusp of a golden age of medicine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36458515 I must have blinked and missed it!
833.
by Solvency 3y ago
Not Martin per se but there have been a few submitters in the past with thoroughly robust content who have also shared bad interview experiences.
834.
by Solvency 3y ago
Can someone explain why, in an interview context, someone with the technical ability to understand and assess and write and communicate a deep set of domain-specific knowledge like this....might still be asked to do some in-person leetcode
835.
by Solvency 3y ago
Perfectly illustrates my displeasure at Tailwind. I know the common refrain is "that's why you use React components", but I can't help but feel bothered by this idea that <X framework has traction> and it requires
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On the left, Tailwind. On the right, vanilla CSS(twitter.com)
6 points by Solvency 3y ago|5 comments
837.
by Solvency 3y ago
What's the super Birds Eye view tldr reason that such a thing does require 20 million lines of code? How did this happen?
838.
by Solvency 3y ago
Non-native English speaker here. What does "serial" mean in this context? Is it referring to a linear record of achievements/prior employment?
839.
by Solvency 3y ago
How did you make the animation in the homepage? It's definitely not a screen recording...it feels like something animated in After Effects at 60fps. Is that true? Or did you use something else?
840.
by Solvency 3y ago
1. Connection pooling can be set up with dedicated servers, but it doesn't mean that all clients like Knex and Prisma do it by default without an external server. Some clients may handle connection pooling internally, while others requ

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