ericmcer

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by ericmcer 4y ago
It was weird how easy this was to identify if you have read any amount of ChatGPT content. It has a particular writing style that is pretty obvious. I am not sure how you would code something to detect an author based on writing style. It f
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by ericmcer 4y ago
This all seemed really predictable: the cross-industry layoffs followed by the hard line return to office demands. I don't want to say it was collusion, but the shift of narrative from tech workers have leverage to tech workers should
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by ericmcer 4y ago
If you view software as a bunch of contracts between different services/libraries/etc. it is hard to ensure that each piece upholds its contract, so we trust them to a degree. I can see how a failure in one place due to load would
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by ericmcer 4y ago
I think Bill Burr has a joke about how congress members are all making ~150k but somehow are multi-millionaires.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
An attempt to blame low income (especially of color) families for their kids poor academic performance would be instant political suicide. Probably one of the fastest ways to end your career.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
I remember an article about a sewer tunnel in LA (or maybe Las Vegas) that was completely packed with 1000+ stolen bikes. Most of the bikes were rusted out and unusable, it seemed like whoever was stealing them had no plan beyond storing a
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Right now being a specialist seems to be the way, the market is flooded with full stack generalists.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
because Republicans started too and Democrats are obligated to take an opposing position.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
I don't think we are talking about national security spying, I am sure every country does this as much as they can. This sounds more like stopping people who want to extort or even just mess with American companies or individuals. It d
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by ericmcer 4y ago
This doesn't take into account that C-suites might like going into big offices in the city and walking around seeing all the people who work under them. Maybe being an executive lacks panache when it involves leading Zoom meetings in y
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by ericmcer 4y ago
I wonder if this is somehow correlated with all the layoffs. Return to the status quo, cut down the massive hiring during the pandemic, scare everyone into RTO, get back to pre-pandemic worker relations.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
What does it really offer? Performance and flexibility? It will probably continue to be a niche for really specific high performance applications but the DOM will always exist as long as 99% of the internet is just viewing or uploading text
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Maybe it's time to shine some light on inequality in the realm of attractiveness??? As kids increasingly interact via social media, being funny, intelligent, or creative is less important than looking good in pictures. I can't ima
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by ericmcer 4y ago
What really kills communal spirit is low rate of home ownership. I can walk down my street and tell who rents vs who owns based on the front yards. People who own actually invest into making it nice, and will be out front gardening or wave
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by ericmcer 4y ago
> Why no built-in sorting HTML tables, and easy hooks into them for custom sorting Because as soon as you do this <table> is no longer a layout element, now it is specifically made for displaying and sorting csv style data.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
How much of this do you think is caused by legacy browsers? If you view the browser as a general purpose OS then it makes sense the features are pretty pared down on it.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Maybe not clone… but I have suffered in the past by not using competitors products. One of the easiest UI/UX steps you can do is use a bunch of products solving similar problems and see what you like and don’t like. It’s insane how oft
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Yeah he is actually doing pretty well. The people who do the best seem to be the ones who do newsletters and courses on... how to build SaaS companies lol.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
4 years is a long time, so you should have some explanation, but there is really only one way to find out! No one has asked about why I took 8 months off yet.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
The reality is super bleak. Listen to the Indiehackers podcast and you will see that most of the 'crazy success' stories involve someone getting lucky and ending up with $10k/mo, that is a low junior dev salary at a FAANG. Th
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by ericmcer 4y ago
I took 8 months off voluntarily, just started applying again last week (full stack dev): 10 applications, 2 rejections, 1 initial phone screen Anecdotally I see very few junior/low level positions open, most jobs seem to be senior+.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
The story of the Crave cookie company is the exact opposite of this one. They had a perfect product in cookies, super high margins, easy to transport and make, not perishable and easy to market through social media. Their tech was abysmal,
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by ericmcer 4y ago
I have thought about this too, it would probably be very innovative if smallish 100 person companies brought on software people to do menial work with eventual automation in mind. The problem is no competent software engineer is going to wo
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Yep it sucks. I think it is more insidious than other time wasters because we can pretend it is productive.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Diaper is gross, but peeing in a bottle while sleeping in the car can be nice. Just roll over, pee, roll back over and fall asleep again. Much less intrusive than getting up and walking to the bathroom, dealing with bright lights, etc.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
I hard disagree that a laid off Google employee would feel better if Google had wanted to keep them on but the company was folding. No severance and all your equity being worthless is a pretty shit trade for knowing your corporation still l
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Is your first instinct that jail is too harsh and we should find them a qualified therapist? I have several elderly relatives (including my 70+ year old parents) and if a person infected them with TB or Covid through gross negligence I woul
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by ericmcer 4y ago
I like the softness, just #000000 on #ffffff is kinda harsh. Look at HN the off-white background makes it less assaulting on your eyes.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
ChatGPT will have a very hard time. If I want to get on ChatGPT I usually google ChatGPT and click the first link. It is a crazy competitive advantage.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
I am not sure but this did trigger a vision of a dystopian sci-fi world where governments attempt spike each others AI with false training data to control narratives. Google can leapfrog OpenAI because they are the entry point for 99% of us

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