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by habosa 2y ago
I’m an American who lived in London for 3 years and was also impressed, but as someone who only had to use national rail for leisure (got around London by bus/tube) I was oblivious to two things: 1) Commute hours are brutal. Trains are
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by habosa 2y ago
If having a laptop is really one of the biggest issues, I will happily get you one (assuming there is somewhere I can send it). Won't be anything fancy, but it'll be a laptop. Email in bio.
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by habosa 2y ago
Definitely a cool post and I certainly think people should be able to de-DRM things they own for their own use, but I do have some sympathy for the defense of LCP. Digital books are a good thing. I can hear about a book I'd like to rea
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by habosa 2y ago
This. I’d like to hear from the HN comments. Does anyone here work for a modern and popular software company (something I might have used recently) and think that the software they make is really and truly bulletproof? Like no backlog of hu
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by habosa 2y ago
The first thing it said to me was that I should read the “looong looong” post about how it works and it pronounced that as “loon-g” not “lawn-g” which was a weird own goal. Extremely impressive overall though.
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by habosa 2y ago
Or just … enjoy your cash business? Be your own boss, make a good amount of money, do it as long as you can. Seems aggressive to look at a 5-6 person agency pulling in $1M a year and give the advice “now it’s time to start your _real_ busin
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by habosa 2y ago
I’ve had a Kindle since the very first model. I’ve bought 380 books for it, so probably like $3000. This recent shift by Amazon ends that. I’m buying a Kobo reader and I’ll be buying all my ebooks from bookshop.org as soon as they launch th
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by habosa 2y ago
Even that option only allowed one by one downloading from the web, with 3 clicks per download. Instead I sent my 400 books over the air to my Kindle (you can do this in bulk) then connected the Kindle over USB and had Calibre pull the books
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by habosa 2y ago
As someone who has enjoyed your writing, I find your trebuchet comment to be so distasteful I’ll have a hard time not hearing it if I read your posts again in the future. These are human beings you’re talking about. And before you say I don
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by habosa 2y ago
Please try to speak only for yourself, not all SF residents. I’ve lived here for a decade, in 6 different neighborhoods (including 6th street). I now live near Golden Gate Park where this article is mostly set. I found it inspiring, not ins
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by habosa 2y ago
I’ve been waiting for this for so long. I love bookstores and want them to exist but really prefer to read books on an ereader because they don’t take up space and it’s easier for me to read at night. Right now my solution is to buy Kindle
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by habosa 2y ago
Try cold outreach software like Apollo.io As a test I downloaded it and got my wife’s full email and cell phone number easily from their free trial. And the full price would be on the order of pennies per contact.
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by habosa 2y ago
I have seen this work. You just work it out with your manager directly and don’t involve HR or leadership and it’s fine.
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by habosa 2y ago
I am hyper negative on all things crypto but I actually like this. People living with hyperinflation are being screwed by their governments and this gives them a chance to keep what they earn. Hopefully you find a way to balance ease of use
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by habosa 2y ago
+1 I've use Jenkins, Travis, Circle, Cirrus, GitHub Actions, and Buildkite. Buildkite is leagues ahead of all of the others. It's the only enjoyable CI system I've used.
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by habosa 2y ago
Shameless plug but I built GitGuard ( https://gitguard.dev ) to solve the "Pull request and required checks" problem mentioned here (and other problems). Basically: you set GitGuard as your required check and then write
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by habosa 2y ago
Don’t forget code review. I created CodeApprove, but there are so many other good alternatives that could have been GitHub features (Graphite, CodePeer, Reviewable, etc).
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by habosa 2y ago
> automatically consigned to worst-in-class experiences You said it perfectly. This is why there are a lot of people willing to create better experiences on top of GitHub’s API. I created CodeApprove ( https://codeapprove.com )
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by habosa 2y ago
Educational merits aside, this is part of a broader trend of losing or dismantling the few “public” parts of our society we have left. People simply don’t want to be forced to interact with others in the physical world, especially others no
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by habosa 2y ago
I've been a Chrome user since literally the day it came out. On my iPhone 13 though I just noticed Chrome was getting slower and slower. At first I thought it was the phone, since I spend most of my time on the phone in the browser it
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by habosa 2y ago
If pg isn’t writing about startups, we’re all better off not reading it. There’s nothing here but fuel for the comments section.
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by habosa 2y ago
On all the teams I’ve worked on the written standard has been one business day, but most people get to them faster. I always make sure to tell an author if I don’t think I can review their code same day. Just a comment saying “hey this is a
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by habosa 2y ago
The branding of congestion pricing has been so disastrous. It could have been separated into two very normal things: tolls and parking fees. Every city has those. NYC could have played with those knobs until they got mostly the same effect
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by habosa 2y ago
Legitimately curious, what interesting websites are usable without CSS?
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by habosa 2y ago
I think the AI investor class wants to find a way to have it replace a large amount of human labor. I think if they succeed this will damage our society irreparably which, like it or not, only works well when people have jobs. I’m also very
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by habosa 2y ago
I specifically said I don’t judge others for working there now and just wanted to add to the conversation by explaining how my thoughts changed over time. I do not think I was or am brave for any of my career decisions. I was 20 when I star
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by habosa 2y ago
I worked in Big Tech and it changed my life financially so I can’t judge anyone else for doing it, but I will say that I had a moral reckoning while I was there and I am (right now) unwilling to go back. At the time (2012-2022) the things a
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by habosa 2y ago
What I was trying to say is the thing that makes him dangerous is that he believes disaster is possible and is still heading towards that possibility with maximum velocity. That makes him one of the few people alive who, in their own estima
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by habosa 2y ago
Sam Altman is one of the biggest threats to humanity right now, and I’m basing that opinion on his own statements. He believes that AGI has the potential to dismantle or destroy most of the existing world order. He believes there is some no
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by habosa 2y ago
I think lumping in LSPs to Copilot is wrong. The LSP is a (mostly) deterministic system that surfaces information provided by the language or by other programmers (types, comments, etc) which are meant to save you time and reduce the cost o

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