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by herval 1y ago
The last thing we need is “innovation” in the form of MORE JavaScript frameworks.
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by herval 1y ago
Pretty much any antidepressant or anxiolytic
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by herval 1y ago
The way Apple is iterating slower and slower on all product lines is kinda sad. It's not like there's a shortage of things to do - it just feels like they got in the habit of small increments to cut costs everywhere (keep the desi
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by herval 1y ago
How does one “fix hallucinations” on an LLM? Isn’t hallucinating pretty much all it does?
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by herval 1y ago
That’s sadly the reality of the push to 996. When Google added early breakfast and late dinner, it was the same reasoning: if people stay “in the zone” longer, you end up squeezing out a bit more. I get the feeling the push to 996 is in par
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by herval 1y ago
Life is always about optics. Medieval kings wore a piece of gold over their heads for optics. I guess more people are just starting to realize this because many powerful people are actually dropping some of the well-accepted optics (particu
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by herval 1y ago
As someone who had to 996 as a coder and as a manager, I can guarantee you the burnout is MUCH faster on the latter. A 996 schedule of zoom calls is straight up torture. I could feel myself getting dumber after a few months. As a coder, you
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by herval 1y ago
Young people tend to enjoy the grind more because they 1) don’t have a social life yet, 2) don’t know what “productive” looks like, so they confuse grinding with progress
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by herval 1y ago
I feel like this curtain drop started in earnest in tech as well, when Musk took over Twitter and declared (along with certain VC) that engineers are no longer "special" and need to be treated like cattle. The entire industry glad
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by herval 1y ago
The cray part is they're doing it by openly doing stuff that's clearly and unambiguously classified as illegal (eg the gifts in exchange for benefits)
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by herval 1y ago
I recommend this book so often recently, I'm thinking about buying a dozen copies so I can give them away
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by herval 1y ago
They lost the appeal because 1) global logistics normalized, moving the bulk of the money laundering activities back to their usual places (eg physical art), 2) people started realizing that the blockchain actually created a papertrail that
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by herval 1y ago
Who would've guessed it would go this way!
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Showing Tap Indicators on iOS Screen Recording(maestro.dev)
2 points by herval 1y ago|0 comments
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by herval 1y ago
A culture of quality doesn’t require particularly skilled individuals to function. That’s in fact the thesis for the entire Deming management philosophy, and in line with what I’m saying (you can produce high quality with a good process or
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by herval 1y ago
37signals and craigslist are two examples (and they’re open about their engineering being sub-par). If you consider FB products “high quality”, it’s another example (the average FB developer is anything but “high quality”, by most definitio
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by herval 1y ago
you don't need "high quality engineers" to have high-quality outputs. And vice-versa - lots of places with very high quality engineers produce terribly low-quality software
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by herval 1y ago
while at the same time talking nonstop about how "AI alignment" and "AI safety" are extremely important
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by herval 1y ago
What makes someone write so many words just to tell the world they don’t like a brand?
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by herval 1y ago
I personally reached the multi-cloud situation a handful of times - it's particularly common if you're doing anything on-prem, or with customers on certain regions (eg China). If you're truly married to AWS/GCP/what
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by herval 1y ago
do you have a sense of how it compares to GKE or the Azure k8s offering?
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by herval 1y ago
in my current case - the ability to deploy on-prem for some specific customers (on-prem meaning their own AWS or GCP account usually) + per-customer/multitenancy on the main product (ideally with segregated databases) In general - scal
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by herval 1y ago
I tried that in the past and found it extremely unreliable as a production environment. Documentation was also non-existent and I'd have to manually handle clusters, setup my own observability and log stack, etc. Any cloud provider the
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Ask HN: Is Kubernetes still a big no-no for early stages in 2025?
27 points by herval 1y ago|50 comments
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by herval 1y ago
This is such a huge repeat of the early 2000s. All the bust startups spent billions in infrastructure. Everyone built their own datacenters, no matter what your business is. We'll either see a new class of "AWS of AI" compani
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by herval 1y ago
Pretty much the entire tech industry has bent the knee by now - they even gifted the new ruler with golden statues. It's not just a handful of people...
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by herval 1y ago
I was a big Windsurf fan. What they did with their team became a massive cautionary tale around the current wave of startups. It's creating a distrust culture that's gonna be very hard to repair (not that it matters for the handfu
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by herval 1y ago
I'm not sure those are mutually exclusive? Modern coders don't touch Assembly or deal with memory directly anymore. It's entirely possible that AI leads to a world where typing code by hand is dramatically reduced too (it alr
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by herval 1y ago
People have been saying that since the advent of formal education. Turns out standardized education is really hard to pull off and most systems focus on making the average good enough. It’s also hard to teach people “how to think” while at
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by herval 1y ago
This isn’t a “vibe coding” phenomenon and isn’t particularly egregious now. It’s usually the same people who peddled crypto, NFTs, multilevel marketing, seo blogspam and a bunch of other “get rich quick” schemes in the past

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