allknowingfrog

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by allknowingfrog 5mo ago
Because the goal isn't "keep this exact version of the app alive and running". The prototype is never the whole application. If your only metric is incidents, then yeah, don't ever touch the code again. You can get a few
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by allknowingfrog 5mo ago
This problem definitely predates AI coding agents, though it may be exacerbated by them. The article essentially concludes with the ancient advice of "plan to throw one away". Well sure, I also read Mythical Man Month, but how do
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by allknowingfrog 5mo ago
I got excited about TUIs when I was exposed to the Bubble Tea framework for Go. I'm sure that Claude has accelerated the trend, but interesting things were already happening years ago.
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by allknowingfrog 5mo ago
Isn't it all just information? The lock code and the location of the safe are both just data. I think it's possible that all security is obscurity.
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by allknowingfrog 5mo ago
I think both can be true. Ideally, we should do more to address the social issues that cause people to drink and drive, but revoking licenses is still a good short-term move. We could outlaw AI policing while we work on deeper issues with l
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by allknowingfrog 6mo ago
Does anyone know how this fits into the larger picture of recent Ruby drama?
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A New Chapter for Ruby Central(rubycentral.org)
2 points by allknowingfrog 6mo ago|1 comments
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by allknowingfrog 6mo ago
I've used foreign keys and unique indexes to enforce validity on even the smallest, most disposable toy applications I've ever written. These benchmarks are really interesting, but the idea that performance is the only considerati
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by allknowingfrog 6mo ago
I think this is too soon to call. No one questions whether AI can build things. We question whether they can build stable things that work as expected and stay online in the long run.
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by allknowingfrog 6mo ago
I think "make a product" is the important point of disagreement here. AI can generate code that users are willing to pay for, but for how long? The debate is around the long-term impact of these short-term gains. Code _is_ a means
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by allknowingfrog 6mo ago
Isn't this easily defeated by closing the betting before the wheel starts spinning? Is that not standard practice anyway?
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by allknowingfrog 7mo ago
I deal with a fair amount of newline-delimited JSON in my day job, where each line in the file is a complete JSON object. I've seen this referred to as "jsonl", and it's not entirely uncommon for logs and other kinds of
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by allknowingfrog 7mo ago
I'm proposing that DST is an awkward solution to the problem. You're suggesting that we should use the awkward solution and then also stack another solution on top. Why not cut out the extra step?
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by allknowingfrog 7mo ago
> Uncle Steve is zero hours ahead. Uncle Steve is the same number of hours ahead that he has always been, and that's a thing that could be looked up just as easily as finding his time zone. I think the author is greatly exaggerating
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by allknowingfrog 7mo ago
Well, I'm not one of those people. I like waking up with the sun and driving to work in the daylight. The idea that DST solves anything absolutely blows my mind. If you want the ability to start your work day earlier and end it earlier
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by allknowingfrog 8mo ago
Well, find and sed have modern "fd" and "sd" alternatives. Naming it "gt" allows you to claim that your version save 33% compared to typing "git".
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by allknowingfrog 8mo ago
This is news to me. What motivates you to reach for an S3-backed queue versus SQS?
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by allknowingfrog 8mo ago
I could stand to hear less from both the enthusiasts and the detractors. My HN experience has changed substantially in the last couple of years.
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by allknowingfrog 8mo ago
Everyone acts like the electoral college was a blunder. The founding fathers studied the democracies of ancient Greece, and they made a very intentional choice to guard against unfettered democracy. You were supposed to be involved in local
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by allknowingfrog 8mo ago
Is "founder" the right word for living off of savings for 8 years while trying various things? I haven't done anything more impressive, but I also don't describe myself as a founder. If someone killed me tomorrow, I&#x27
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by allknowingfrog 8mo ago
Preventing the traffic from being distinguished is the whole premise. Port 23 gets blocked because everyone uses it for telnet, and everyone expects bad actors to know that. If everything moves to 433, we'll end up with a variety of ro
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by allknowingfrog 8mo ago
I've only ever built something that worked by first building a couple of things that didn't. No amount of theory or specification can replace what you learn by actually building and interacting with a system. Accept that there wil
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by allknowingfrog 8mo ago
"When you have to pick fine grained tasks, you are forcing yourself to actually figure out what steps you are going to have to take." That process isn't free. For many features, it's the largest share of the work.
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by allknowingfrog 8mo ago
Americans pay a pretty hefty health insurance penalty when they leave steady employment to start their own business. There have definitely been better times to be an entrepreneur in this country.
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by allknowingfrog 8mo ago
I'm not familiar with this pentagon trick. Care to elaborate?
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by allknowingfrog 9mo ago
I pulled beanstalkd into a legacy PHP/MySQL application several years back and was very pleased with it. It's probably not the right choice for a modern Rails application, but if you already don't have a framework, it's
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by allknowingfrog 9mo ago
I genuinely went looking for an "off" button, and was very confused when the snowflake icon changed the background color instead. I didn't even notice that the snow stops being generated until I read your comment and tried ag
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by allknowingfrog 9mo ago
The article is specifically about the decline of Adwords, not the company as a whole.
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by allknowingfrog 9mo ago
ChatGPT makes the content visible and the author invisible. Why should anyone optimize for AI consumption?
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by allknowingfrog 10mo ago
Are you seeing anything interesting happening in this space with Zig? I've been dabbling a bit (after seeing so much about it on HN), but TigerBeetle is the only successful project I can name. I know a few embedded developers, and they

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