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by jjice 3y ago
Agreed. I've also been using Kagi for the last month and love it, but local results are just not as good. They provide some Yelp locations but usually not as well as Google does. I wouldn't be surprised if this is improved over ti
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by jjice 3y ago
I stick with backend development personally, but I will say that their new Server Actions look super handy for quick development. We've used TRPC for that currently and will probably continue to do so, but I really like the concept if
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by jjice 3y ago
That's _wonder_-ful to see. I love the idea of being a "lifer" but I just can't see it happening for me. I like working on a variety of different things, but I think a lot of modern software won't have to make drast
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by jjice 3y ago
Huge fan of the people behind Oxide as well as the concept behind the product. Can someone tell a layman like myself where a 44M Series A funding round lands among other Series A rounds? I was at a startup during 2021 and when we raised 25M
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by jjice 3y ago
And they currently run a podcast weekly called "Oxide and Friends" where they talk about miscellaneous things in the software space. The most recent few episodes have been about corporate open source and they've had excellent
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by jjice 3y ago
I interned at a large-ish retail company in the US and we had an IBM mainframe that hosted the core DB2 server. I remember when I first learned of EBCDIC because of that IBM machine and I was blown away. Never had I worked with a character
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by jjice 3y ago
More so just a question for you, but how does one get into or at least improve their technical writing as a software engineer? Any feedback? I've found met with questions from customers that my writing wasn't able to make clear an
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by jjice 3y ago
I'm confused (and an electricity layman, so please excuse), but why would that power requirement of NFC matter in conjunction with the eInk power usage? Why can't the NFC reader be isolated from the display's power usage?
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by jjice 3y ago
The care that must go into writing and testing software that goes out to a machine like this is incredible. I write software that, if and when it fails, it fails hard and it just comes back with no added cost to me while I go ahead and look
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by jjice 3y ago
I had a good experience with AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Basically Heroku on AWS. I used it with Docker, but they support having a definition file like Heroku's Procfile as well. It abstracts most of the underlying infra like EC2 and VPCs i
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by jjice 3y ago
Oracle has `SAMPLE(N)` which can come after a table name to get N records from the table. I believe it's built specifically to be performant for this kind of thing. That said, it's the only case I've heard of and only because
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by jjice 3y ago
I love that Java and C# (not sure about VB.NET and F# in the .NET ecosystem) are continuing to get handy language features instead of collecting dust. The array syntax stuff is a nice win. Having other languages be the guinea pigs for langu
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by jjice 3y ago
My dad actually worked at a startup (two programmers if I recall) in 1990 onward that wrote very similar software to MS Visual Basic and even has a BASIC derived language. It was called Realizer. They started working on this before MS annou
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by jjice 3y ago
Found it. Article and associated HN post: - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273741 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26072025
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by jjice 3y ago
Oh I love stories like this - great retort! It reminds me of that time that some app (or apps) was hammering an image of a butterfly from Wikimedia because it was part of some sample code that was never removed. I couldn't find the sto
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by jjice 3y ago
I don't think I could ever pick a single book, but Clean Architecture by Robert Martin is a favorite of mine. Really helped shape the design of testable systems for me. Once I actually started writing automated tests for my code, it tu
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by jjice 3y ago
I agree with the final sentiment but I do think you gave a good example of a more direct response. That said, there's something charming about seeing Torvalds's attitude come out. People really care about Linux and it warms my hea
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by jjice 3y ago
I get the sentiment from the pro LLM folks, but this is a fun thing we do once a year that is held by a few dedicated volunteers that want to keep it to be a programming competition. Using an LLM is not in the _same_ spirit as past years an
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by jjice 3y ago
Can you say what the software is? I do like the model you have laid out.
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by jjice 3y ago
I'm in batch 7 of this laptop's shipment waves which I expect to actually release mid to late December and it seems like that's a good thing. Still very much looking forward to it, but being super early in the AMD 7040 series
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by jjice 3y ago
Hmm I wonder if that could just be a simple keyboard replacement given the modularity of the Frameworks.
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by jjice 3y ago
I heavily agree. I used to work on a LAMP stack where the deployment was just dumping the code into an EC2 instance. All is fine until there's a weird system dependency error that isn't documented because the AMI being used has ju
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by jjice 3y ago
Agreed and I think it's due to two things: - The app just requests may more permissions than required. Often times you'll see an app that just requires read access that is requested read, write, personal email, and blood of your f
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by jjice 3y ago
I'll never not recommend this book. Fantastic and free, but you can get an official paperback book these days too. It's well written if you want to learn basic networking with the BSD sockets API. It's also the funniest softw
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by jjice 3y ago
Yes it's an interesting trend. I integrate with a good handful of systems in my current work and the most important ones we integrate with are SOAP based. The concepts behind a WSDL are great in theory, but they end up incorrect or unm
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by jjice 3y ago
That's a ton of weight - rooting for you. That's a massive goal to hit, especially on a bench. How long have you been training?
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by jjice 3y ago
I'll read a bit here and there but CS was always more of the traditional pathway to software engineering for me. I do still love to read language theory (what I can understand, at least). It's a very neat glimpse at what we can ho
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by jjice 3y ago
I pay $14 a month for YouTube Premium. YouTube is my most used streaming service and I think it's completely worth it. Maybe if you don't consume a lot of YouTube it's not that valuable to you but I'd rather have YouTube
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by jjice 3y ago
I made tee shirts on RedBubble when I was 14 or 15. Really low quality designs from a non-artist for niche communities. One really caught on. Another two or so got a bit of traction. The other 30 never sold. Ended up making probably around
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by jjice 3y ago
4chan is such an interesting piece of internet history that's still living. Despite lots of parts of 4chan being terrible, I will say that the diy board has helped me figure out some clever solutions to around the home jobs.

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