calderwoodra

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by calderwoodra 20d ago
Use Raycast, and never look back
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by calderwoodra 22d ago
If a merchant gets a lot of charge backs from a specific card issuer or acquirer, they can block them specifically. A company at Netlifx's size could be doing this, but I've heard specific instances of it happening with grocery st
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by calderwoodra 3mo ago
I remember this period of Google very vividly, it felt absolutely surreal to see everything about the company immediately leaked to the press and getting insane media coverage. Younger me was very skeptical and it was hard for me to reconci
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by calderwoodra 5mo ago
They'll all turn in to "the managerial class". That's the higher order function that requires high judgement, low frequency work (unlike developers, data entry, designers, BDRs, compliance, etc.)
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by calderwoodra 6mo ago
Linear
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by calderwoodra 7mo ago
Greptile is an awesome product, not sure where the scam is there
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Hadrius (YC W23) Is Hiring Designers Who Code(ycombinator.com)
1 points by calderwoodra 7mo ago
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by calderwoodra 9mo ago
Afaik, Niagra has all of that. My favorite aspect of it is that I can remove all text and see 95% of the wall paper at all times.
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by calderwoodra 9mo ago
I've been using Niagara for a few years and I love it.
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Show HN: Crapless craps – flutter PWA vibe coded from my phone(craps.exe.xyz)
2 points by calderwoodra 9mo ago|0 comments
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by calderwoodra 9mo ago
Building is so much fun, probably my #1 favorite thing to do, but a bad company culture can ruin it. I love being a CTO so I can build and set the culture that keeps it fun.
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by calderwoodra 9mo ago
Yes, the InfoSec advantages of using RDS are very real, especially in B2B Enterprise SaaS.
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by calderwoodra 10mo ago
Agreed, specifically for the file structure use-case, we were able to solve this with ltree.
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by calderwoodra 10mo ago
In software engineering, "senior" or not usually means you can be trusted to take on certain problems vs. others. In US primary school (an industry I've never worked in), this might be close to something like teacher, curricu
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by calderwoodra 10mo ago
Remember this when you're thinking about the average commenter's opinion on anything technical.
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by calderwoodra 10mo ago
Article about smartphones being bad? Right to the top. Generic comment that would fit in the comment section of any of those articles? Right to the top. I get baited into reading these posts and comments every day - why can't I stop? P
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by calderwoodra 1y ago
This has been an interesting realization for me, seeing the LLM well poisoned by its poor understanding of hooks and effects has opened my eyes up to how much the average developer also doesn't understand these things.
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by calderwoodra 1y ago
2 data points and you're drawing a conclusion about an entire graduating class? For all we know, you might be experiencing a reality that you're company isn't able to attract great young talent.
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by calderwoodra 1y ago
Why doesn't LISTEN/NOTIFY work with connection poolers?
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by calderwoodra 1y ago
I'm not an accountant, but as I understand it, you don't pay taxes on profits, but on revenue. So previously, some 20% of all revenue would be owned as corporate income tax, and startups would deduct it all as they're spendin
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by calderwoodra 1y ago
Communication doesn't scale and there are many examples of that. It's not possible to convey complex topics to a large audience, well, at all times. The audience has to do some work too.
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by calderwoodra 1y ago
The poor support for types in VS Code has always been a blocker for me adopting it vs. Jetbrains, where types and the intellisense are much easier to jump between.
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by calderwoodra 1y ago
The internet taught us long ago that novel thoughts are extremely uncommon. Most people likely don't have any novel thoughts their entire lives.
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by calderwoodra 1y ago
You need a DUNS number for iOS too, fwiw
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by calderwoodra 1y ago
Been there and done many of the things you described, have a family today and I still love being a founder and working very long weeks. I know not everyone is like this though. The only unmet desire I have left to work towards is to serve o
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by calderwoodra 1y ago
More specifically, using AI bots that can write functions, sometimes entire classes, refactor code, etc. GitHub copilot which is mostly single line completions isn't "vibe coding". I think vibe coding also entails some "
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by calderwoodra 1y ago
It's easier to identify women's fashion among millennials imo: 2000's: jeans 2010's: leggings 2020's: not those
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by calderwoodra 1y ago
What kind of database is this using and how is the search so performant?
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by calderwoodra 1y ago
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/10/20/tech...
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by calderwoodra 2y ago
Their current rate is about ~20% cheaper (4k/day), so missing the deadline isn't that big of a deal.

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