justinram11

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by justinram11 3mo ago
I graduated college and started the digital nomad thing back in 2016 -- first traveling to mainland China and then spending some time in Taiwan. Intending to stay a stay a few months, I thought it would be good to learn the basics and met m
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by justinram11 4mo ago
Something I've enjoyed more than I expected is Google and Apple photos sending me photo memories and compilations of various things in my life and my kids lives over the last decade. I'm really bullish on taking more video of my k
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by justinram11 4mo ago
Mostly for myself (stripe isn't actually even hooked up anymore afaik), but a Mandarin language learning app: https://nextword.app . Deepseek v4 pro does a pretty good job of actually adhering to the word restrictions. Most
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by justinram11 4mo ago
Actually on my list this week to take a look at putting an intelligence escalation flow MVP together (initial assumption would be that flash is good for 60-80% of my user's workflows, with only the tricky questions needing a more capab
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by justinram11 4mo ago
That's about what we've seen as well (even directly from deepseek themselves). We've been using it for async "heartbeat" processing and sms replies, but it's just too slow for live chat replies (which is a sham
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by justinram11 4mo ago
Bought the exact same machine (same config and ram as well) around the same time off ebay for ~$280. Part of me wonders if I should sell it, but I do occasionally like to play with homelab stuff. I have a 3060 12gb card I'd love to hoo
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by justinram11 5mo ago
I actually enjoy it much more than I thought I would. I love tinkering and solving problems on the computer, and it's fun to have a space to do it with my hands in the real world. Learning the basics of carpentry to erect a fence, basi
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by justinram11 10mo ago
This was around 2020-2022 during COVID, but the whole process from start to finish from Taiwan took a little over two years for us (we had issues with the financial supporting documents that took 3 months round trip twice to get resolved --
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by justinram11 11mo ago
Just bought that exact kit for my Minisforum 790S7 build at the eye watering $592... Kicking myself as I was just starting to contemplate it early Oct but not yet seriously looking
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by justinram11 1y ago
Have you checked out Ona [1] (gitpod's pivot)? [1] https://ona.com/
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by justinram11 1y ago
As a mostly java dev, I choose Rails 8 w/ Jumpstart Pro [1] for my latest startup and it's been a joy to work with. There is something about Rails' convention over configuration that plays really well with LLMs, and I love no
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by justinram11 1y ago
Curious if the suspend / hibernate "just works" when you close the lid? I feel like I've tried several times to get this working in both Linux and Windows on various laptops and have never actually found a reliable solut
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by justinram11 1y ago
Although I think Cursor has the best UX (love how they queue up diffs that you then go through and can review/approve/deny easily while the agent still works), I've since switched to Claude Code + JetBrains IDEs as the sweet
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by justinram11 2y ago
I've recently been experimenting with Jumpstart Rails [1] in Cursor and it feels like a super power (coming from a generalist-but-mostly-spring-boot dev). I'm really burnt out by the current state of JS, and the way rails 8.0 does
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by justinram11 2y ago
Kotlin would have definitely been a step up over Java purely for null safety. In hindsight, RoR or Django would probably have been a better starting place considering their financial constraints (non-technical bootstrapping founders), but n
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by justinram11 2y ago
The startup that I work at had started as a project a contracting company had taken on, and they had chosen Java Spring Boot to handle their REST API backend back in 2020. Although probably not the decision I would have made, it's actu
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by justinram11 2y ago
> Oh, and the original author doesn't work here anymore so no one's here to explain the original code's intent. To be fair, even if I still work there I don't know that I'm going to be of much help 6 months later
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Ask HN: Best place to find non-technical co-founder?
4 points by justinram11 2y ago|2 comments
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by justinram11 3y ago
IANAL or Accountant, but just a heads up that under the new Section 174 rules, foreign developers have to be amortized over 15 years (5 years for a domestic developer)
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Ask HN: Best country to run a boostrapped startup from? (After Section 174)
56 points by justinram11 3y ago|32 comments
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by justinram11 3y ago
Hsinchu, Taiwan Pro: Taiwan is overall a very convenient place to live. Cheap delicious food; convenience stores on every other block; public transportation is great in Taipei, decent everywhere else; beautiful mountain hiking trails, and b
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by justinram11 3y ago
Same thing in our case -- we didn't want to move to the US right away (wanted to spend ~6-9 more months in Taiwan anyway). It ended up being a 2 year slog through covid, was brutal. Wish we would have had an overwhelming urge to get ma
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by justinram11 3y ago
Had literally the exact same issue with my spouse, but without the luck of finding an insurance person who cared. At the end of the day, it wasn't worth the $200 to continue fighting it (had already invested ~5 hours into phone calls b
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by justinram11 3y ago
When I was 12-13 I wanted to get a new gaming laptop, and so learned enough HTML to sell custom websites on Craigslist for $50 a pop over a summer, and made close to $600 (my parents helped cover the rest). That turned into php and custom w
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by justinram11 3y ago
Please shoot me a message -- email on profile
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by justinram11 3y ago
Fresh Coffee -- I had bought an expensive latte machine but was still using typical store-bough coffee. My latte's were "good" but not "great". Ordered fresh light roast coffee from Happy Mug and it's like a wh
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by justinram11 3y ago
MoneyDolly | Senior Flutter Developer | US Remote | Full-Time MoneyDolly is transforming the North American fundraising industry by putting more money into the hands of students and allowing them to do what they love. We are looking for a s
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by justinram11 3y ago
I didn't realize the creator of Skritter was on HN! Just want to say that I've really enjoyed your app, and it's helped immensely with trying to learn Chinese
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Ask HN: Best practices for purchasing a Pen Test?
7 points by justinram11 3y ago|6 comments
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by justinram11 3y ago
MoneyDolly | Generalist Data Engineer | REMOTE - US | https://moneydolly.com MoneyDolly is transforming the North American fundraising industry by putting more money into the hands of students and allowing them to do what they l

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