alex_lav

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by alex_lav 3y ago
In my experience working with junior engineers, design patterns seem to be kind of a toxic concept to teach about without the right guardrails, such that I'd almost say newer engineers should totally skip books/materials about des
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by alex_lav 3y ago
It's like the writer of this article thinks employers give out raises based on inflation. I'd expect it'll be a few years before most people feel the effects of the inflation cooling.
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by alex_lav 3y ago
> You can rent a 2-socket AMD server with 120 available cores and RDMA for something like 50c to $2 per hour. Source required
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by alex_lav 3y ago
I think the ultimate question for me is, does increased tedium demand/imply/require "attention", or does it just create a new opportunity for mistake? If devs are so frequently writing these "check()" style fun
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by alex_lav 3y ago
My sister and I have separate mothers. My mother, who I lived with, was pretty absent throughout my childhood. I never really had any monitoring on how I spent my time, for better or worse, but that reality allowed me to kind of chase inter
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by alex_lav 3y ago
Requires OpenAI API key. It feels like this is becoming too prominent.
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by alex_lav 3y ago
I need to remember that on HN, sometimes the founders of companies I'm talking about will respond :D. I should've used more words. I don't really know what reasonably costed would've looked like for the time I used Ampli
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by alex_lav 3y ago
Last I used Amplitude it was insanely expensive. Is that not still the case?
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by alex_lav 3y ago
> Can you please specify whether you use (paid) GPT-4? Paid. > Would you kindly provide links to a few examples of very fundamental things incorrect? No, definitely not. > I notice very rarely that it hallucinates. Unsure of what &
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by alex_lav 3y ago
You're mostly right in your experience. I have spent quite a bit of time trying to get ChatGPT to be a worthwhile piece of my workflow, and I guess sometimes it is, but most of the time the basic code or config or content I try to gene
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by alex_lav 3y ago
Is static typing "safe", and have I demonstrated that simply by publishing a blog about bugs in dynamically typed applications?
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by alex_lav 3y ago
The original article didn't disprove the existence of vulnerabilities though. Is "Concurrency is hard and I think this concurrency model is easier" "proof"? Did you read either article?
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by alex_lav 3y ago
I believe it is very clearly social media. Humans aren’t intended to have fake-insights into what people around them pretend to be doing
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by alex_lav 3y ago
PFAANG
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by alex_lav 3y ago
After skimming it, I kinda think the only point they really needed to make was "Rust makes the core team happier". I think the person you're responding to's point, is lots of the things this post is describing about Rust
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by alex_lav 3y ago
It's very normal to have on-call and overtime stipulations in employment contracts for salaried positions.
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by alex_lav 3y ago
They say they don't have an on call rotation. You say you want some amount increase during on-call rotations included in your offer, even though they don't currently do an on call rotation. If they push back, you say "Well yo
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by alex_lav 3y ago
> I mean being able to version a system implemented in "advanced SQL" the same way I'd version one implemented in an applications language. Make some changes, keep them in VCS, at some point decide to do a release and depl
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by alex_lav 3y ago
> - Has no way to deploy a specific historical version of the SQL (e.g. deploy this git tag) Can you clarify this? Do you mean the version of a specific schema/query? > - Has no automated checking that the SQL behaves as expected
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by alex_lav 3y ago
This is the second time you’ve said “it’s bad!” And then used a strange hand wavy analogy (in the first post, an xkcd comic) as an out. Again, if you don’t understand something and don’t want to, just say it, don’t paint it as bad. Enjoy yo
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by alex_lav 3y ago
It's funny, for my lil startup, "How do you get the data" is now _less_ tech than ever. I pay an hourly wage to a human to generate/transcribe it. This method is both much more cost effective and scalable than tech-enabl
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by alex_lav 3y ago
To be fair (this comment is mostly a joke), Ashburn/Loudoun County is pretty nice for a suburb/strip mall hell. I've had some really good food in that area.
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by alex_lav 3y ago
“Everyone” in this context means “the places one individual person is aware of”, and when compared to _actual_ “everyone”, is mostly irrelevant though. The things you’re complaining about are solved problems, you just don’t care/refuse
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by alex_lav 3y ago
React Router? React Router Dom? Redux? Rematch? Jotai? MobX? Hooks? Classes? Create react app? Not create react app? Next? Gatsby? Preact?
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by alex_lav 3y ago
> SQL may be a language for all those things, but unfortunately it's horribly bad at it. Any piece of software used incorrectly will seem "horribly bad". > Wilfully obtuse syntax This is an opinion. > Incredibly poo
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by alex_lav 3y ago
I think this use of "suffer" is kind of silly. Outside of actual dwarfism, is it really "suffering" to just wish you were taller?
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by alex_lav 3y ago
> By the way all of the complaints in this post can be solved if OP uses a PaaS solution. This statement is untrue. PaaS offerings just trade one set of problems for a maybe slightly smaller but mostly the same set of problems. I actuall
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by alex_lav 3y ago
> I think an unbiased, responsible observer would have to conclude similarly to me. Unsurprising conclusion. Enjoy the day!
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by alex_lav 3y ago
Because GCP and AWS give access to "fly by night" devs, companies, products etc. as part of their business? Anyone can create a company, create some dev infrastructure and then _also_ ignore security and "compliance" bes
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by alex_lav 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23033183 A pretty apt write up. But I accept there’s probably not an amount of evidence to change your belief on Go’s dogmatism. And that’s okay! You like a language. That’s great!

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