austin-cheney

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by austin-cheney 5d ago
You are mostly correct, but no rule exists in absolution, and my words while harsh are neither snarky nor clever. I really am hoping my comment reaches that curious soul, because I really believe kindness alone is insufficient given the con
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by austin-cheney 5d ago
Software has been in the toilet for years before AI and for years before Covid. Software is fully unregulated which means it’s full of liars and pretenders who should never be anywhere close to any kind of machine. The result is a saturated
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by austin-cheney 8d ago
I don’t think the medical community has believed as the article claims for nearly a century. Most animal brains have three very different organs in the brain: the cerebrum, cerebellum, and the limbic system (which itself is further divided
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by austin-cheney 9d ago
* PiHole - dns * Jellyfin - videos and such * mealie - recipes * aphorio - my own app for container management, web servers, sockets, and more. It can do 5,000,000 messages person on a single socket roundtrip * gamevault - like Jellyfin for
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by austin-cheney 9d ago
> That's an easy question. First, people will forget how to do anything and become highly dependent on AI. That is already here. One example of somebody who probably cannot program desperately trying to push some AI slop without co
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by austin-cheney 9d ago
Everything that touches JavaScript in the corporate world feels broken. Look at any full stack job post. It’s a mess of tech stack nonsense on the backend for people who are terrified of JavaScript and a layering of framework madness on the
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by austin-cheney 9d ago
That is why contracts are more than one page in length. The details matter. I can remember receiving a contract class in Afghanistan about something as simple as moving gravel. Yeah, use your imagination with that and whatever absurd car
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by austin-cheney 10d ago
No. I am going to launch a startup next week by pivoting my current personal application into a different industry. Some highlights: * a proxy (and reverse proxy) is 3 words on a web server configuration object that supports many such proxi
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by austin-cheney 10d ago
A/B testing. I learned how to write high performance JavaScript code directly to the DOM without a bunch of abstraction bullshit. Turns out this proved to be a bias because our experiment code frequently executed faster and failed far
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by austin-cheney 11d ago
So there a couple of problems to solve in this space. 1. The price of hardware has to return to normal. Otherwise it might take 2 years to see a savings compared to just paying streaming subscriptions. 2. Private access from anywhere. This
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by austin-cheney 11d ago
I have something like this very recently. About a month ago I wrote a perf tool for my application to measure its network message speed. It showed I could send 3,250,000 WebSocket messages per second in my TypeScript application. If I moved
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by austin-cheney 11d ago
> When people put quality requirements too high on software, we get situations where This is a common trope of the unregulated: We can’t raise quality because we can barely deliver as it is . The real message there is that the user shou
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by austin-cheney 11d ago
I think you misunderstand quality versus competition. The purpose of regulation is to impose a minimum baseline of quality. Software does not have regulation. In many areas of software we force shit quality on the users and just expect the
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by austin-cheney 11d ago
One of the greatest challenges for software as an industry is for the developers to consider the role of the user. In my 20 years of doing this rarely have I seen a developer advocate for the users over themselves. Instead the developer i
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by austin-cheney 11d ago
Actually they do. Local coffee shops fall under the regulation of local food inspectors just like restaurants.
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by austin-cheney 12d ago
https://aphorio.sharefile.systems/ Aphorio. It’s a fast dashboard for creating web servers, docker containers, server resource management, and transmission testing. It now achieves a single socket send speed of 6,000,000 me
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by austin-cheney 12d ago
There are economic impacts to raising quality: 1. Higher quality requires better trained technicians. That means fewer people will be able to participate due to any of missing experience, costs of training/education, and opportunity co
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by austin-cheney 13d ago
* Strong barriers against caller id spoofing * additional caller id for calls coming from outside the country * salary ranges for an open position is a good start. I would also like to see age of opening, number of people interviewed or ev
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by austin-cheney 13d ago
What exactly are you trying to post that doesn’t work? Is it AI related? Seriously, what do you expect the admins to do? If the AI stupidity is allowed to overrun the site everyone capable of writing and consuming human content will just ab
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by austin-cheney 13d ago
This due to two factors: 1. Bot submitting content. Most of it already automatically blocked. Turn on show dead in your options and then go to the new page. 2. Young, like really young, people wanting to participate but already are fully
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by austin-cheney 13d ago
I guess I can see it both ways. Most people who claim to be software developers have never written software. They likely write some JSX, type a few commands, and pat themselves on the back. For those of us who do write software an API integ
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by austin-cheney 13d ago
> Another thing I'm always looking for is tails that could wag the dog. The history of startups is full of these. Paypal started out doing security for hand-held devices. They created Paypal as a demo of their security software. But
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by austin-cheney 13d ago
Self-hosting and containerized applications. There is still a lot of innovation happening.
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by austin-cheney 13d ago
For strictly personal stuff, like my home network, isolate behind a router to block all outside traffic. Then install a VPN on your home server so that you can remote in via a tunnel. I use TailScale's free tier and its great. If tha
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by austin-cheney 13d ago
* Business analyst and Scrum Master * Test Automation Engineer If you want to remain technical I strongly advocate for the second option. It can be super technical and if you end up in an organization where the primary developers suck at w
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by austin-cheney 15d ago
Absolutely an ad company, 100% without question.
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by austin-cheney 15d ago
That is true, but it’s also why most industries require licensing and/or certifications. These things are not 100% effective, but are still excellent at removing disqualified candidates.
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by austin-cheney 15d ago
> I dont see the correlation between company type (tech/software/X company) and sucking at your job though. The difference is in culture and expectations. People can suck when they are allowed or expected to suck. They can’t su
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by austin-cheney 16d ago
I worked at Expedia for a bit. Ask yourself if they are a tech company, software company, or travel company. It’s not a trick question. They have a shit ton of software developers that work there. Same with Bank of America where I also work
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by austin-cheney 16d ago
In the corporate software world, especially anything to do with the web both front and back, most people really don’t know what they are doing. The goal is hiring/firing and agile. Compare that to companies that release actual software

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