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by muzani 2y ago
Tier 1 is default alive and thriving. They don't need the smartest people. They need people who do not screw up. Someone who's willing to spend 3-6 months cramming interview questions is also someone who is unlikely to drop the ba
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by muzani 2y ago
"except JavaScript" This might be the most accurate answer in the thread lol. It's like the river and the sea, there's just a barrier between them with entirely different ecosystems.
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by muzani 2y ago
I like Sublime Text because it's fast, has multiple cursors. And it's pretty. It's redundant with Obsidian but it just feels good.
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by muzani 2y ago
Wasn't aware of this. Excellent resource, thanks!
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by muzani 2y ago
It's also a common interview question before the standard became movie listings. I believe the bootcamp and university standard is food delivery apps now. There's plenty of code out there, but the student ones are underengineered
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by muzani 2y ago
Is there a good to do list app? I'm thinking of forking one to run it through some LLMs (e.g. shopping list), but I haven't found any I'm happy with. I might just open source one myself if that's the case.
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by muzani 2y ago
I think the problem is also "Venezuelan banks". Bank runs tend to happen in these countries. A bank run is when people expect a bank to collapse, so they pull out money, forcing the bank into debt, and actually collapsing them. Th
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by muzani 2y ago
"works as advertised, so technically it's not a scam." It often does not work as advertised. It is not an efficient form for transferring money compared to say, Wise. I used to be able to buy a game off Steam or a burger off
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by muzani 2y ago
Very often the problem is the customer acquisition channel too. HN might not be a good place to ask as we don't normally approach strangers needing to know anything about them. LinkedIn might be a better channel.
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by muzani 2y ago
Why not JSON/XML? {"action": "create_directory", "value": "foobar/assets/"} is 15 tokens whereas create_directory("foobar/assets/") is 7 tokens. It's not the ex
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by muzani 2y ago
Writing code for interfaces is an extra "cognitive layer" for the AI, just like it would be for a human. Let's say you want to add or delete Jira tickets. A MCP is like a big labeled button for the AI to do this, and it doesn
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by muzani 2y ago
I wouldn't call it another form of API. It's more like an SDK. If you were accessing a REST API from Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, Firefox, they'd be mostly the same. But an SDK for Android and an SDK for iOS has been built for
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by muzani 2y ago
Claude 3.7 feels overtuned. I asked it to write tests. It replicated my code into mocks and "monkey-patched" it to pass tests. Basically if it didn't pass tests, it will rewrite the mock to pass. It seems that cursor-thinking
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by muzani 2y ago
We could always use more of them English speakers to understand the enemy's plans.
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by muzani 2y ago
I was just thinking similarly about my eyes. I'm seriously considering LASIK or similar, but there's plenty of anecdotes saying that it's not as safe as the data suggests. So I've been planning for blind coding and such
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by muzani 2y ago
Me and my friends still make goatse jokes today. But the shock stuff is nowhere near as bad as the politics today IMHO. I grew up on IRC back when 9/11 happened. We'd talk about how radicalized the mujahideen were. And it was pube
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by muzani 2y ago
I'm not American, but curious how many people use FB marketplace there? It's a joke here, people still prefer to use the local equivalent of Craigslist. There's plenty of other startups that are more useful. Our housing Whats
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by muzani 2y ago
The job is to learn each new framework though. I think AI will slow this for a while - people will stop adopting new frameworks for a while until AI does. But eventually we'll just switch gears to AI friendly frameworks instead.
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by muzani 2y ago
It's because Google let go the Flutter team and now everyone's afraid to touch it because of long term maintenance. I personally strongly prefer Flutter over React Native. And with Cursor being fully compatible with Flutter, I&#x2
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by muzani 2y ago
I don't think it has specifically changed. The price and stacks are the same. Back then, we'd hang out on sites like Paradox Games subforums. There would be the "upper boards" to discuss the actual company stuff and &quo
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by muzani 2y ago
Similar threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37825653 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131 I occasionally do see people recommending Brother printers on HN, but maybe they too are unaware
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by muzani 2y ago
Ask them if they want feedback. If they're not ready for it or if they don't trust you, it's usually hurtful more than helpful. That conversation alone should give you a good hint of what to do next.
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by muzani 2y ago
Personally I don't like applying to these companies because the false negative rates makes it feel like a lottery. I'd rather just do the other lottery and start a business.
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by muzani 2y ago
I set up some syncing to AWS cloud thanks to GPT-4 several years ago. You can probably do the same thing today with AI agents and they'll even install aws cli and run the commands for you.
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by muzani 2y ago
Gen X calls it "in flow". The appeal with vibe coding is it's one of the few ways you can be in flow when programming.
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by muzani 2y ago
There's a saying that the solution should be 10x better, which I like to measure along the quality speed price angles. So if you can solve it 10x faster and keep everything else the same, that's great. Or something like half the p
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by muzani 2y ago
Larger armies are negative sum for everyone. Historically, per capita GDP was flat until the 18th century, because wealth was measured in gold and people thought the best way to be rich was to keep robbing and colonizing one another.
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by muzani 2y ago
Lots of beautiful, beautiful games. Many are not sold anymore. But it's a great way to find classic games, either to watch on YouTube or search on Steam for a spiritual successor: https://www.homeoftheunderdogs.net/
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by muzani 2y ago
The ideal user is someone who has been building the same thing. It's the guy who's using an excel sheet or wiki to manage their D&D sessions. It's the modders who who have been making fancy, expensive hacks. I personally
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by muzani 2y ago
Fair enough, AI moves fast, but little has changed besides DeepSeek and the reasoning models. AI agents hit an inflection point around November, but people had always bet on them anyway. I don't consider GPT-4.5 or Claude 3.7 as major

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