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by heeton 1y ago
I've considered "great engineer" a hiring anti-pattern for a decade. (Specifically in the space of product-focussed pre-pmf startups, through into early scale-ups). I'll take "great communicator", "great c
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by heeton 1y ago
I spoke with Peer (the creator of Grisp) about this at Elixirconf earlier in the year, and I'm not an expert here so I hope I don't misrepresent his comments: Grisp puts enough controls on the runtime that soft-realtime becomes ha
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by heeton 1y ago
You're overthinking it. I'd rather have interesting than milquetoast.
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by heeton 1y ago
Nailed it
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by heeton 1y ago
Eesh, a disaster? I use it daily to do some pretty impressive things. Wouldn’t call it a disaster.
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by heeton 1y ago
Is this actually a game? It loads with one item in an inventory I can’t seem to use past the first room, and there seems to be nothing in the second room that is interactive except (spoilers) a cupboard door. Is this just a tech demo of som
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by heeton 1y ago
> What I do care about is being met with something cutesy in the face of a technical failure anywhere on the net This is probably intentional. They offer an paid unbranded version. If they had a corporate friendly brand on the free offer
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by heeton 1y ago
Not to speak for OP, and this library is very cool, but: It’s ~20 commits done in two batches. 2018 for the initial release then some more work on it in 2023. Zastai: you could have that kind of progress on any lib you wish to release, and
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by heeton 1y ago
It’s not a tool for signatures. It’s also hard to sign documents with a paint roller. But this UI is much better at, e.g. drawing a smooth, symmetrical heart symbol, with a crisp turn. Different UI for different tasks, and it’s very cool to
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by heeton 1y ago
What makes you say the library is modifying the signature? (It’s not)
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by heeton 1y ago
For others reading this, “AI” in this context means Artificial Insemination.
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by heeton 1y ago
We all know that being first does not mean success, and it’s not “gargantuan” mismanagement. It’s rare to be first AND the leader 20 years later.
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by heeton 1y ago
Annoyingly I'm finding cursor's autocomplete to be better than others, even though it's agent editing is not as good as claude code. So I'm using CC in cursor (the little integration is nice) to get the best of both. Non
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by heeton 1y ago
I've test-driven 2 cars in the last 2 years (because I'm environmentally interested in swapping my diesel for an EV), but each time has put me off that entire brand. First was Tesla, I can't stand the full iPad console with n
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Ask HN: What's your (opinionated) way to iterate FAST in production
2 points by heeton 1y ago|0 comments
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by heeton 1y ago
I'd assume eventual IPO. And/or specific lucrative contracts within US Govt/Military/Tech.
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by heeton 1y ago
But, why?
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by heeton 1y ago
~5 year pro elixir here, various systems in production, I don't know any erlang.
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by heeton 1y ago
I don’t quite understand why reforming the actual system, and moving away from first-past-the-post, isn’t higher on everyone’s list. It feels like we don’t have a functioning democracy in the U.K., and that gets in the way of pretty much ev
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by heeton 1y ago
Having been to a place that does this, before I had an online profile: I think this is only one side of their approach. During my visit the team were super attentive and conversational and picked up on insanely small details. I’m sure if yo
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by heeton 1y ago
My friend does this and calls it “hedging humanity”. Every time some big political event has happened that bums me out, he’s made a few hundred.
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by heeton 1y ago
Tried to login to the example site, unfortunately hit an error immediately after auth'ing with github.
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by heeton 1y ago
Risk / reward tradeoff. There are other options that are as good, as cheap, as easy. Why pick one with a significant, unpredictable, often unknown flaw. Where if it happens you end up needing major surgery?
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by heeton 1y ago
I’ve built a few things like this using Nerves / Elixir on a pi. It’s got a really nice dev experience through to useful deployment and over-the-air updates. I highly recommend it to anyone building little functional prototypes of this
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by heeton 1y ago
I had a go and it failed at the first hurdle I’m afraid. It was hallucinating my responses and inserting phrases that I wasn’t saying. The teacher kept switching into an American accent when I was trying to learn French and the responses we
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by heeton 1y ago
Sorry, I only just saw this comment. Feel free to reach out (email in profile) and I’d be happy to chat.
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by heeton 1y ago
A point on skimming vs taking the time to read something properly. I read a transcript + summary of that exact talk. I thought it was fine, but uninteresting, I moved on. Later I saw it had been put on youtube and I was on the train, so I w
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by heeton 1y ago
I tuned in, and immediately watched a guy wait for his dog to shit, and then pick it up. The internet is a wonder.
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by heeton 1y ago
Yea CC is great with phoenix / liveview. It’s been doing things that teach me new tricks about elixir I didn’t know yet.
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by heeton 1y ago
Bad choice imo, given that there is another database called tiger beetle. I assumed they’d merged when I saw the title.

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