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by jwhiles 3y ago
This taught me that it's possible to change the colour of the header, and that I had enough Karma to do so! Now enjoying my very pink version of hacker news.
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by jwhiles 3y ago
Eating bananas is very safe. Unless there is a poisonous spider inside it.
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by jwhiles 3y ago
There's two main groups on hacker news. The people who think Go and Java are the only reasonable languages, and the people who think Rust and TypeScript are the only reasonable languages.
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by jwhiles 3y ago
I've never looked into this, but I'd assume that a stock's price being the same as it started on any given day is one of the rarest results.
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by jwhiles 3y ago
Buy stock X - it will definitely go up in the next week!
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by jwhiles 3y ago
Probably you talk to a designer, or if that's not possible then deliberately copy the look of existing websites which you believe look nice. Clearly you already have CSS, which is all that's required for a site to look any way tha
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Golden Age of Consumer Software(johnwhiles.com)
3 points by jwhiles 3y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: A browser version of the 'ReAct' pattern for working with LLMs(johnwhiles.com)
2 points by jwhiles 4y ago|0 comments
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by jwhiles 4y ago
What's the reason to think that it reduces the amount of creative code that's written. Doesn't it just let you get through the copypastable stuff faster - all things being equal I'd assume it means you spend more time on
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by jwhiles 4y ago
I used to walk everywhere in the middle of the road but then they started punishing me for it :(
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by jwhiles 4y ago
Gonna start slapping this on all my AI generated content
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Check out uBlock origins element picker(johnwhiles.com)
2 points by jwhiles 4y ago|0 comments
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by jwhiles 4y ago
Can you share a link to this story/ something googleable? Sounds interesting
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by jwhiles 4y ago
In that case, I wonder if blogging stayed the same - and it just feels less important because there is so much more internet now. The pond grew and it stayed the same.
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by jwhiles 4y ago
Was blogging every really mainstream?
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Fixing a Memory Leak in a Ruby SideKiq Job(johnwhiles.com)
1 points by jwhiles 4y ago|0 comments
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Rating the Ramen I ate in Japan(johnwhiles.com)
1 points by jwhiles 4y ago|1 comments
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by jwhiles 4y ago
I'm not saying that it's good to fire people. And yes, companies have levers to retain their strongest staff. I'm not convinced that they tend to be very good at doing that though. The (non-FAANG) company I work for has an on
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by jwhiles 4y ago
I think that your best employees are the people who are most likely to leave a company of their own accord, and so if you rely on attrition to reduce headcount you will also reduce the average quality of your workers.
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I've rebuilt this website too many times. I just did it again(johnwhiles.com)
2 points by jwhiles 4y ago|0 comments
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by jwhiles 4y ago
If you work at somewhat prestigious companies, you've probably worked with ex or part time models. Not many people make enough money off of modelling that they won't need another career, but being model material makes everything e
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by jwhiles 4y ago
I'm a bit confused how this differs from the existing watch modes that are built into test runners I'm familiar with, such as Jest. Is this something that I'm used to in TypeScript, but which just doesn't exist in most l
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Setting up my new computer, Neovim configs, and Spotify in the terminal(johnwhiles.com)
2 points by jwhiles 4y ago|0 comments
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by jwhiles 4y ago
I'm kind of curious what you mean by 'point and click' here? The contentful web interface is, of course, a web interface - but it's perfectly possible to interact with the API directly for people who want to do so.
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by jwhiles 4y ago
I live in very central Berlin, and regularly go 'mountain' biking after work. You can ride from the city to endless forests in like 30 minutes in relative safety. There's also a huge amount of green space in the city itself.
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by jwhiles 4y ago
I think you have a somewhat distorted understanding of what FIRE means, or at least one that is different to my own understanding of the term. I think of FIRE as essentially trying to optimise lifestyle and work in order to quickly reach a
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by jwhiles 4y ago
Their naming is quite inspirational. If I ever start a popular band I will also try to make some existing thing completely un-googleable. The band Franz Ferdinand also tried this and seem to have failed.
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by jwhiles 4y ago
I'm interested in approaches for this, bearing in mind that I don't know people in real life who I can give cash for crypto, and can't mine coins. I wanted to buy some tokens to set up a side project, but the prospect of givi
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Is MadLAD Sentient? – An Interview(johnwhiles.com)
2 points by jwhiles 4y ago|0 comments
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Shaving is an example of how consumer products extract more money(johnwhiles.com)
502 points by jwhiles 4y ago|954 comments

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