acolytic

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by acolytic 3mo ago
I've been working with coding agents for a few years and became increasingly frustrated by the way it pushes you towards a solution. So I built rubberduck ( https://userubberduck.com/ ) - a way to control exactly what so
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Show HN: Rubberduck – Software design agent where you make the decisions(userubberduck.com)
3 points by acolytic 5mo ago|0 comments
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Toronto business owner loses $14K to technical glitch at mobile payment company(cbc.ca)
3 points by acolytic 7y ago|0 comments
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by acolytic 7y ago
I'm not very familiar with the concept of tarpitting. How do they get the bot to run CPU intensive code? By passing in extra Javascript? Can this affect a bot that doesn't run any JS?
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by acolytic 7y ago
I thought Google's SRE book ( https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/toc/index.html ) was incredible. Probably a good place to start.
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Ask HN: Why Isn't Go Functional?
23 points by acolytic 7y ago|18 comments
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by acolytic 7y ago
In my case, I lost one of them.
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by acolytic 7y ago
Don't believe so, no. The lottery is supposed to be blind though, so no company has any edge for any given applicant. That said, one strategy some companies take is to pack in as many applications as possible to get as many people thro
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by acolytic 7y ago
Just to add some context to this since I was a bit confused. The H-1B goes through the lottery to see which applications get seen by immigration. This seems to be the approval rates of the H-1B after the lottery which makes sense. The FAANG
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by acolytic 8y ago
Are you talking about the earpods? I just bought the iPhone XR and I got the earpods but I didn't see any lightning adaptor. Now I have two earphones, one that only works on my phone and another that only works on my laptop - it's
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by acolytic 8y ago
>Other crowd founding venue charge around 5 % which is the level i would personally feel comfortable with. 5% is $0.5 which right off the bat assumes payment processing is separate. That's fine if people prefer that but even then $0
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by acolytic 8y ago
Donations are not tax-deductible for now. We might do that later if people ask for it. 30% includes all payment processing costs and other costs for both users and projects, so there is a flat 70% remaining for projects that doesn't ge
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by acolytic 8y ago
One thing I'm not seeing here is people giving freely simply because you created something they value. You will never become a billionaire through this mechanism but I suspect you can probably earn a decent living. The problem with thi
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by acolytic 8y ago
Disclaimer: I'm working on a platform that allows you to contribute to open source as a whole and which distributes your money proportionally to how much you care about various projects. I'm thinking of taking 30% as well. I think
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by acolytic 8y ago
Hey everyone, this is Alex from SeedAndDew. The idea here to give people a way to contribute to open source as a whole with the revenue being distributed in proportion to how much you care about a project. The proxy we're using for now
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Show HN: SeedAndDew – Support open source with one subscription(seedanddew.com)
6 points by acolytic 8y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: How do you deal with application logging in a web service?
1 points by acolytic 8y ago|4 comments