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by fishtoaster 8mo ago
It feels like someone asked an AI to read a year of output from a ruby link roundup newsletter and then had it write a report: many facts, minimal synthesis, and little-to-no useful opinion/summary.
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by fishtoaster 8mo ago
I'm a big fan of this genre of "a person got rich in tech and spent their wealth making an unrelated thing they wanted to exist in the world, untethered from the need to be profitable or self-sustaining." See also, Jamie Zawi
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by fishtoaster 8mo ago
> if you have any code you actually care about I would watch them like a hawk, in a nice large IDE on the side. This is about where I'm at. I love pure claude code for code I don't care about, but for anything I'm working
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by fishtoaster 9mo ago
Yeah, this feels right on the cusp of being interesting. I think that, being charitable, it could be interesting if it turns out to be successful in hiring and coordinating several people and physical assets over a long time horizon. Fo
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by fishtoaster 9mo ago
This article makes a number of the standard arguments for hiring juniors and a couple new ones: - Companies should hire juniors [at their own perceived detriment] to improve the overall industry - Hire juniors because strong companies are r
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by fishtoaster 10mo ago
This post was so in-line with her writing that I was really expecting it to turn into an ad for Honeycomb at the end. I was pretty surprised with it turned out the author was unaffiliated!
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by fishtoaster 10mo ago
Based on the later life updates, I suspect this was being humorous. > After these zoom attempts, I didn't have any new moves left. I was being evicted. The bank repo'd my car. So I wrapped it there.
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by fishtoaster 11mo ago
Well, TFA linked to https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29741239/
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by fishtoaster 1y ago
Yes. But that's like saying "a racecar would gain a competitive advantage by being faster." Getting your internal structures right and aligning your incentives is one of the main challenges of building and running a large
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by fishtoaster 1y ago
> Selling to businesses is very easy. You go to a business and you say "hey, you like making money?" And the business will say "why yes, I do like making money" and you will say "great, I can help you make more m
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by fishtoaster 1y ago
This is one of my next learning goals: getting a better feel for which models to use when. "100% claude 4 Sonnet" worked pretty well, but I want to keep pushing myself out of local maxima.
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Forcing Myself to Vibe Code(kevinhighwater.com)
1 points by fishtoaster 1y ago|3 comments
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Show HN: Kriegspiel Tic Tac Toe(kttt.io)
2 points by fishtoaster 1y ago|0 comments
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by fishtoaster 1y ago
It's niche, but I wasn't really able to find anything else like it. I wanted to project our some retirement scenarios and my options seemed to be: - Any of a few dozen "retirement calculators," each consisting of 6 fiel
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by fishtoaster 1y ago
Haha, yeah, I, I was considering putting some disclaimers around those. "What actually are the true, base-level primitives of physics?" has been an ongoing project for centuries. :)
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by fishtoaster 1y ago
My take has always been: 1. D&D mechanics, like all games, are a simplification of the real world using primitives like "firing a bow" and "passing an item" and "downing a potion" 2. The real world is fract
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by fishtoaster 1y ago
Or just someone who's familiar with the terminology. I've never worked at Amazon, but I've heard the term for years as an Amazon thing.
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by fishtoaster 1y ago
The storage is not just an implementation detail because it affects how fast things run, which affects which tasks it's better or worse for. There's a reason people reach for a columnar datastore for some tasks and something li
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by fishtoaster 1y ago
Yep. Clickhouse is absolutely great for tons of production use cases. Unless you try to join tables in it, in which case it will immediately explode. More seriously, it's a columnar data store, not a relational database. It'll d
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by fishtoaster 1y ago
Honestly, it's been pretty great at my tiny startup. The designer has a list of tweaks he wants that I could do pretty quickly... once I'm done with my current thing in a day or two. Or he can just throw claude at it. We'v
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by fishtoaster 2y ago
GeneralMayhem captured it pretty well, but yeah: it's complex at every scale. You see some complexity, you zoom in, and you find that the bit you zoomed in on is just as complex! Our founders are pretty deep domain experts on aws cost
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by fishtoaster 2y ago
Stealth | San Francisco, CA (hybrid: M-W-F ONSITE) | Full-time | Fullstack Engineer We're looking for a backend-leaning fullstack dev. Highlights: - We're a 5-person startup in San Francisco (hybrid: 3 days/week in office) -
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by fishtoaster 2y ago
Sounds like this is the result of "accelerated depreciation." As far as I can tell, that's a strategy that ultimately allows you to pay less tax one year and more tax in a later year. I don't have a strong feeling on t
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by fishtoaster 2y ago
This seems somewhat useful. I've definitely found I have a much better signal-to-noise ratio on more focused job boards. The more focused, the better. Eg when hiring at tiny startups, WorkAtAStartup (or Wellfound, if I'm not cur
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by fishtoaster 2y ago
I'm really interested in this bit: "the fracture with the community is not about licensing, or at least it’s not mainly about licensing" I wish he'd elaborated a bit more on what he thought it was about. My understand
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by fishtoaster 2y ago
I would second this. I have pretty extensive experience in a few python-like languages, and had written a few hundred lines of python over the years, but had never had a full-time job writing it. I had an upcoming job working on a python
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by fishtoaster 2y ago
I think this is a nice way to clarify the different use cases for version numbers: - SemVer is a communication tool for when an author needs to tell a potential user what to expect from a new version. - TrunkVer is an auditing/engineer
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by fishtoaster 2y ago
That's why I offered the choice: different people do well under different circumstances. I figured that it'd allow me to hire a great dev who hates timed challenges or a great dev that hates take-home busywork. In practice, th
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by fishtoaster 2y ago
Yeah, that was the explicit tradeoff: I'm losing the ability to compare apples-to-apples. I decided it was worth the risks associated with that - that I'd wind up with two candidates who picked different options and I couldn&#x27
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by fishtoaster 2y ago
Because all evidence[0] I've found has shown that work-sample tests and repeatable, structured indicators are the best indicator of job performance. I understand that a lot of devs think they can get a feel for a candidate by just hav

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