aarondf

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by aarondf 2mo ago
> When one develops using open-source software they have an obligation to follow the licenses. Agreed! > They also have a moral obligation to be respectful of the work upon which they’re building. Respectfully, completely disagree! Op
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by aarondf 2mo ago
Yeah! So is Taylor otwell, the primary source to whom I linked.
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by aarondf 2mo ago
Pretty well https://x.com/taylorotwell/status/2093329899083759634?s=46
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by aarondf 4mo ago
I was at Big Sky Dev Con when they unveiled the GameBoy game. I kid you not my jaw dropped. I thought it was some sort of like emulator gimmick until they said "everyone can take a physical cartridge home!" One of the most delight
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by aarondf 6mo ago
I added the qs because it defaulted to a story from 3 months ago.
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Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved](status.railway.com)
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by aarondf 7mo ago
soloterm.com is closed source
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by aarondf 7mo ago
woah hey! you're speaking the shibboleths!
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by aarondf 7mo ago
I'll take that bet
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by aarondf 7mo ago
I think you're conflating a talent pipeline with ease of running PHP. Those are not the same thing at all
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by aarondf 7mo ago
> We should fund open source! > Not like that!
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by aarondf 8mo ago
My word... samwho is doing some of the best technical explainers on the internet right now.
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by aarondf 8mo ago
I've run into that issue while developing https://soloterm.com . If you respond twice to their theme query probes, the whole thing bricks. Or if you're slightly out of order. It's very delicate.
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by aarondf 10mo ago
damn framerate looks good
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by aarondf 11mo ago
> But the good news is that we can increase our chances of encountering good luck. Every phrase in the article was carefully selected to make it clear that we're trying to increase the odds. Nothing is sure. But if you play the game
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by aarondf 11mo ago
My role? My role as a what?
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by aarondf 11mo ago
I understand. I am, however, impotent against OpenAI. If I publish code to GitHub, I understand it will be used for training. I'd rather get the win for my family than try to fight a megacorp. I'm sorry.
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by aarondf 11mo ago
Unfortunately we have to play the game according to the rules on the field. You can decide to opt out entirely (which is fine) or you can play the game and try to win. Personally, I will play and try to win. That means I will make things, t
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by aarondf 11mo ago
And guess how you make friends in high(er) places... by... publishing your work and making friends in your industry
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by aarondf 11mo ago
No easy answers, I'm afraid. But I would still say you can get lots of social capital from creating things and talking about it. And these days, that can get you past the LLM-inundated HR front door if you want a job. If you hang out o
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by aarondf 11mo ago
Very well said
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by aarondf 11mo ago
You had me in the first half! <3
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by aarondf 11mo ago
Hey! I wrote the article a few years ago. Fun to see it on HN again. It was here back when I wrote it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32071137 Lots of comments talking about how this is just some sort of ploy to feed
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by aarondf 11mo ago
Then define luck as "connecting with fellow nerds." Still works
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by aarondf 11mo ago
Totally. An engineer, who (at the the time) works in marketing! Makes sense to me :D
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by aarondf 11mo ago
I'm a software developer who was, at the time, working in a marketing role. Happy to answer questions.
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by aarondf 11mo ago
I wrote the article. I'm not a marketing droid, I don't work for GitHub, just a guy recounting his personal experiences and hoping to help others.
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by aarondf 11mo ago
Hey! I wrote the article. Having an OSS project take off changed my life. YMMV
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by aarondf 1y ago
I think you're conflating the cost to consumers to use AI and the cost to run AI. Sure, it's a house of cards, but the cost to consumers still rounds to zero.
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by aarondf 1y ago
hell yeah, Rainmaker rules

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