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by mhuffman 2y ago
I once submitted an RFP response for what was literally a CRUD app for a government agency. Medium-ish (to me) traffic. Needed to be rock-solid. Needed to be developed to spec, hosted, and supported (including tech support) for 5 years. I b
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by mhuffman 2y ago
I would be interesting if you can find it.
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by mhuffman 2y ago
The "grammar" part, at least in a professional setting. You might be shocked at how many people will write an email pretty much like they would talk to friends at a club or send a text message (complete with emojis!) or just gener
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by mhuffman 2y ago
>There are no uncertainties or misunderstandings here. The productivity gains are real and the code produced is more robust. Not in theory, but in practice. So, that may be a fact for you but there are mixed results when you go out wide.
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by mhuffman 2y ago
If I recall, it turns out that his "failed rapper" son had some sort of natural talent for this and has got nothing but accolades even from other animators ever since. Although I do get your point.
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by mhuffman 2y ago
In this particular case, there were user accounts, listings of items per user, calculators of various sort, multiple API integrations, and on and on. They understood by the end of the discussion, but seeing an image of something that looked
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by mhuffman 2y ago
Wouldn't that also apply in places like NYC and LA? Where the enormous traffic volume offers lower marginal costs?
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by mhuffman 2y ago
I have had prospective clients do it from non-interactive graphic mock-ups -- just pictures! They assumed that was the hard part and just "wiring up the buttons" would be a short simple task. Those were frustrating discussions.
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by mhuffman 2y ago
Generally I would agree with you, but I just checked where I am at and it appears that the less the competition the higher the price. I compared a few small relatively poor towns that I am familiar with to larger ones that I know charge bet
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by mhuffman 2y ago
Not to speak of the "greed" on this particular item but in Europe you can buy real time glucose monitors, portable ecg, and low calorie meal replacements over the counter. In the US, all of these require a doctor's prescripti
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by mhuffman 2y ago
This looks too good to be true. I am interested in this (because of all the terrible stuff related to diamond mines), but how do you protect yourself from scams on this site? $500-$1,000 is a lot to "test the waters" and see if th
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by mhuffman 2y ago
>Build tools are great for apps and "not-simple" websites. The problem is that bootcamps and similar use project generation tools even for hello world sites while baby-devs are learning. There is no nuance. In one respect this
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by mhuffman 2y ago
>jQuery Now that's a name I haven't heard in a while. Seriously though, it is amazing how long jQuery basically single-handedly supported the entire public facing internet. I know there was ASP and PHP/WP, but for non-cook
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by mhuffman 2y ago
>legally required in most US states Funny how other sites can do this with a birthday dropdown, an IP address, and a checkbox. >We have a sign-up because we ensure users accept our terms of service and acceptable use policy before cre
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by mhuffman 2y ago
You never inherited a project that opened a db, made a single db call, and closed it again in a loop to process an entire table? I'm jealous! Some people get so used to bad architecture that if you fix it they become suspicious. "
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by mhuffman 2y ago
Augmenting your search with fuzzy matching is a good idea. You might also try embedding with smaller chunk sizes (5-8 sentences) at a time. The paragraph breaks will usually not be a problem. The bigger the chunk text, the more likely that
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by mhuffman 2y ago
>The only real question is how many trillions dollars will the judgment be. Calling it now. The number will be so big that they will take ownership of IA and privately "license" that data to openai and similar.
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by mhuffman 2y ago
>I am really curious how do people actually evaluate scrapers? It is not easy to evaluate scrapers unless you have had to deal with lots of poorly written websites in your life. Just using it on a few highly structured well-maintained si
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by mhuffman 2y ago
It was Lagrange's notation, I believe. As opposed to Leibniz's notation which is the dy/dx notation that is all the rage now.
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by mhuffman 2y ago
Their moat will be the per-seat sales to larger companies ... at least that is all I can imagine they will be able to come up with.
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by mhuffman 2y ago
>Now imagine that HTMZ comes along and people just go straight to asking how to full justify text in HTMZ for their smart bucket. What happens? I doubt we’ll get good answers. So, I think the answer is that since all useful data is alrea
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by mhuffman 2y ago
It seems like the "give users a choice" part is the important part here. Most of use that have almost no social media footprint are still being tracked and targeted with ads.
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by mhuffman 2y ago
I know that you are getting some push-back because of your exuberance regarding your use of LLMs in development, but let me just say I respect that when someone told you to "put up or shut up" you did. Good on you!
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by mhuffman 2y ago
>I think this depend heavily on what type of coding your doing. The more your job could be replaced by copy/pasting from Stack Overflow, the more useful you find coding assistants. I think this is true and also why you see some &quo
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by mhuffman 2y ago
Just a quick heads up. I missed some DMs on Reddit because I have a FF extension to automatically redirect me to old.reddit.com because the notification indicator at the top wasn't lit.
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by mhuffman 2y ago
Why not provide it to them all then? Have you considered piping your results to a (possibly cloud hosted) dashboard that might offer (possibly aggregated) real-time cost estimates to people higher up the corporate chain? A high-level view o
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by mhuffman 2y ago
What better places do you recommend for research links? HN is known for being full of experts that might give high quality pointers to pro/con arguments.
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by mhuffman 2y ago
You should know that in business school and after everything you just described would be called "optimized". There is some short discussion about ethics, usually involving not stealing from investors, but otherwise the world is se
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by mhuffman 2y ago
I have also, unless I hallucinated it, read accusations on this very site of peer reviewed papers that were at least partly generated by LLMs.
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by mhuffman 2y ago
I agree. Paying by the month for the rest of your life or they cut you off is not something I am a fan of. I feel sorry for people too young to remember that you could actually buy an app, get free bug updates and get a discount if they mad

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