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by habosa 2y ago
Many criticize the retail investor for treating the stock market like gambling, but I think it really does resemble gambling more than investing these days. How many times have we seen a companies value jump or fall by billions based on a t
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by habosa 2y ago
The apostrophe placement was almost as bad as the content. No thanks.
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by habosa 2y ago
I’m glad that your takeaway from this was to criticize my personal finances.
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by habosa 2y ago
> I’m not sure what world other people live in > I’ve been building an app Most people live in a world where they don’t build their own ebook software. I think you actually do know this.
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by habosa 2y ago
I just want to +1 the recommendation for StoryGraph. I used Goodreads for a decade but got frustrated at how little Amazon invested in it. Plus the review culture was getting toxic. Took me an hour or two to migrate all of my books over. St
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by habosa 2y ago
Maybe the best thing to do is just continue practicing the art of writing code without LLMs. When you're the last person who can do it, it might be even more valuable than it is today. (this is my naive tactic, I am sure sama and co wi
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by habosa 2y ago
Here’s my Carta horror story, since we’re sharing. I left my last company and had 90 days to buy my options. The day after I left the company (January) I exercised. The total I had to pay was about $20k. I didn’t think a lot about it after
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by habosa 2y ago
I run CodeApprove ( https://codeapprove.com ) which is a better code review interface for teams that work on GitHub. Know when it's your turn to review, what discussions/files need your attention, and do it all in a ligh
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by habosa 2y ago
Ok I need to hear the full version of this story.
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by habosa 2y ago
The Forbes 30 under 30 to prison pipeline continues its excellent run.
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by habosa 2y ago
Shameless plug but this is one of the many GitHub code review limitations I set out to fix when I created CodeApprove ( https://codeapprove.com ). You can comment on any line, a whole file, or a whole PR and all comments are threa
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by habosa 2y ago
I don’t read much non-fiction but for this year my pick is “Everyone Who is Gone is Here” by Jonathan Blitzer. It’s a well-researched and original account of immigration at the US Southern border. It tells the story of many individuals and
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by habosa 2y ago
Or Virgin/O2 could, you know, just actually block the scammers.
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by habosa 2y ago
I’ve got two! The first is CodeApprove ( https://codeapprove.com ) which is my attempt to bring the best code review experience to teams on GitHub. It’s heavily inspired by the excellent tooling I saw within Google (Critique, for
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by habosa 2y ago
I think this is one of the big reasons so many companies end up using Bazel as part of scaling their monorepos. It has many faults but one thing it does perfectly is “build and test everything affected by this commit”
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by habosa 2y ago
Mondrian! That’s a name I haven’t heard in a while. Google uses Critique for code review these days. I tried to bring the best of Critique to GitHub with https://codeapprove.com but you’re right there’s a lot that just doesn’t w
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by habosa 2y ago
They've made some nasty pricing changes in the past. For example they decided on per-user pricing (based on git committers) if you used them for the very common task of deploying branch-based previews on PRs. At my last job this was a
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by habosa 2y ago
You maybe should be looking more at location than the office amenities. A dentist on a popular shopping street may be relying on foot traffic to bring in patients. A dentist who’s buried in a neighborhood might get more word of mouth referr
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by habosa 2y ago
I’ve been writing code for money for 10 years. I’m a terrible typer, probably 40WPM and not consistently touch typing. I never cared that I was slow, I’m fast enough. I do wish I was more accurate though.
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by habosa 2y ago
If this happened then JavaScript would be split into 20+ languages, one for each popular compiler. There would be nothing stopping a tool maker from adding their favorite language features even if no other compiler ever adopted them. That w
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by habosa 2y ago
Minor point, but the author says about Clerk that they’d glady pay 1% of revenue for a polished auth solution. That might be true for a side project, but that would be an absurd figure for an established company. Can you imagine a company w
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by habosa 2y ago
I bought the domain http://ftp.computer because it made me laugh. I set up the site using an MS-DOS stysheet. It had a single button and it said “feed me”. Clicking the button let you upload a file. It would spin for a while and
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by habosa 2y ago
The new Kindle paper white may finally get me to upgrade … but also maybe not. I have a 10+ year old Kindle Paperwhite (I think first gen). I use it daily and it’s still just nearly a perfect device. It’s withstood rough treatment, battery
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by habosa 2y ago
It’s no coincidence the US, the most powerful country in the world, tries to get every other country to buy as much of its debt as possible. We owe everyone billions or trillions. They’d hate to see us (or our dollar) fall.
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by habosa 2y ago
It’s been years since you’ve seen a captive portal? I can’t remember the last time I saw a WiFi network that didn’t have a password that also had no captive portal. I’m pretty sure every airport in the US has captive portal WiFi.
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by habosa 2y ago
It’s so good hearing about a “bike to work scheme” and trying to imagine what the evil part is.
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by habosa 2y ago
Very cool! My only online news source these days is text.npr.org which might as well be a dot matrix printer.
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by habosa 2y ago
Lately I've been working on GitGuard ( https://gitguard.dev/ ) which is a flexible way to write approval rules / workflows for your GitHub PRs. Think GitHub's branch protections but with the power of a toy prog
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by habosa 2y ago
I refuse to work on AI products. I refuse to use AI in my work. It’s inescapable that I will work _near_ AI given that I’m a SWE and I want to get paid, but at least by not actively advancing this bullshit I’ll have a tiny little “wasn’t me
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by habosa 2y ago
No screens and at most of them no music either. Very few people drinking while standing. Just a pleasant place to have some beers with friends. When I moved back from London to the US (where I’ve spent 90% of my life) I was so much more dis

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