chairmansteve

5 ms·

31.
by chairmansteve 4mo ago
Interesting. A web form completed by the sales people would not have sufficed? I guess it's the backend interfaces to multiple systems that's the difficult part?
32.
by chairmansteve 4mo ago
> I tend to get very good results How do you define the good result? Does the definition of success include clean, maintainable code? I am finding I need to be in the loop. My code ships to thousands of users, so any issues get amplified
33.
by chairmansteve 4mo ago
"It’s hard to find a good balance and it depends on the kind of business and scale of project". Exactly. The abstraction purists are not working in the messy, dead line driven real world.
34.
by chairmansteve 4mo ago
> I disagree. So... the wrong abstraction, no matter how bad, is better than code duplication?
35.
by chairmansteve 4mo ago
Time travel!
36.
by chairmansteve 4mo ago
In Ukraine they are using tracked autonomuous vehicles for the same tasks. Much cheaper.
37.
by chairmansteve 4mo ago
It's probably because they have a lot of coal and not much natural gas.
38.
by chairmansteve 4mo ago
This looks really good!
39.
by chairmansteve 4mo ago
Try living in Phoenix without a car...
40.
by chairmansteve 4mo ago
But you don't know why...
41.
by chairmansteve 4mo ago
I think some industries have notably high quality output. Automobiles, aerospace for example.
42.
by chairmansteve 4mo ago
"but we will have no choice but to march forth from there". If you haven't seen it, I think you would appreciate the film Margin Call.
43.
by chairmansteve 5mo ago
> but the other half of the puzzle is you need to have good options to vote for. No. It's always been that you get to choose the least bad option. Unless you fall for the personality cults that sometimes develop around politicians.
44.
by chairmansteve 5mo ago
> Democratizing propaganda. Not really. A lot of the disinformation is generated by authoritarian state actors.
45.
by chairmansteve 5mo ago
Very well said. The author was noodling around bored, generating random crap on AI. Not surprising the result is meaningless junk.
46.
by chairmansteve 5mo ago
>something i have seen dozens of times Me too. But I think AI might be a much more powerful delusion generator.
47.
by chairmansteve 5mo ago
"That leaves small SAAS companies exposed to incoming inflation in the cost of hosting". Which they will pass on to their customers. If their product provides enough value the customers will pay.....
48.
by chairmansteve 5mo ago
Well... I use RSS. I find a lot of the sites on HN. Google has been worthless for years,
49.
by chairmansteve 5mo ago
Google??? Remind me what Google is again. Haven't used them for years...
50.
by chairmansteve 5mo ago
You left out ponzi schemes, aka crypto.
51.
by chairmansteve 5mo ago
Whatever....
52.
by chairmansteve 5mo ago
Yeah. There were books written about Enron and Worldcom...
53.
by chairmansteve 5mo ago
If there was a way to support smaller artists outside of spotify, that would be great.
54.
by chairmansteve 5mo ago
"Because of onerous regulations, the EU has much less startups". That old trope. Is that also the reason Miami or St. Louis have less startups? I have started companies in the UK. The process is about the same as in the USA. The p
55.
by chairmansteve 6mo ago
In chatgpt, I start every session with "Caveman mode:". Works at the moment.
56.
by chairmansteve 6mo ago
The BBC wants me to pay $8.99/month??? How the mighty have fallen....
57.
by chairmansteve 6mo ago
"This page is about 1 MB of assets". And it could easily have been 10 KB.
58.
by chairmansteve 6mo ago
>the impetus for me leaving tech. What do you do now?
59.
by chairmansteve 6mo ago
IRS Tax form 1040 is made from a tree. The tree seems much more miraculous..
60.
by chairmansteve 6mo ago
I get good value out of using the Libby app with my local library.

More ›