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A specialized POS-inventory-CRM system for an offline store. Pick something - coffee, babysitting, barbers, massage parlors, sushi restaurants. POS first because everyone has to record money. The value proposition is theft prevention, bookk
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The idea of the files seemed to have more impact than the files themselves.
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"Else Basic and Fortran would have made everyone software developers." I think you mean COBOL instead of Fortran? COBOL is a beautiful language, one of the most human readable ones we've ever had.
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I usually consider it more of a spectrum, with the left being more suited to fast iteration/abstraction, and the right being more useful for control:- Expo / RN → Flutter → KMP → Native
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There's BE options for Dart too like Serverpod [1] But IMO, languages should focus on a niche. Dart has a clear niche - mobile. It handles mobile and responsive layouts very well. It handles async well (mobile operating systems, mobile
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by muzani 10mo ago
There's a great deal of lurkers. I'm always surprised by the traffic it brings and how many are familiar with HN but never comment.
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Muslim majority country here (Malaysia). Christmas day is a public holiday, and so is New Year's. It's also the end of the year when most people want to use up their paid time off. Nobody likes having a holiday on two Thursdays fo
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Plenty of games did great. But crowdsourcing has changed a lot. It's no longer a place to raise funds for experimentation. It's a place for someone who has built a prototype to raise funds to scale. Partly it's to gauge that
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One of my favorite professors put it in a different way. The classic approach is that they are lecturers first, and not teachers. The professor is the master in their field. They go into class. They lecture on things based on their experien
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For a moment I think, maybe I'm exaggerating. So I open up Telegram. I wish HN allowed me to drop images, but basically, there's this "NEW SCHOOL TRANSITION" channel for my daughter who's switching schools. 95% of t
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My mom simply did not respond to emails from students. Or even her faculty. It worked fine for her, except many people considered it rude, but nothing bad happened otherwise. She had an office, an actual one, and whenever it was important e
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by muzani 10mo ago
My problem isn't with email or Slack. It's with WhatsApp and Telegram. It's the official channel for many things now, except it's not one channel, it's 50 or so. Wedding invites, family dinner invites, everything go
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It can't possibly do everything; mind reading interfaces haven't been invented yet. Paul Graham goes on about how writing is thinking. Just the act of writing out instructions can be fun.
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Searching Mein Kampf adds some decent data on what to filter out, or tag differently. A lot of it comes up in discussions on banned books etc. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal... Also, so
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On one hand, analytics is similar to astrology. You observe real phenomena and draw lines. A lot of inaccuracy comes from the exclusion of delays. Like if I removed the logout button, how would that affect churn? This is a question better a
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I see it as a punching bag analogy. It's a strike. A repetitive strike. I try to make the strike shorter and stronger each time. The last time I tried to make a goth girl dating sim, it took half a day. The next time, I hope it would t
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If anything, I feel it makes my career more secure. 1) Nearly all the job losses I've dealt with was when a company runs low on money. This is because it cost too much/too long to build a product or get it into market. 2) LLMs are
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Usually Claude is the prude. Personally I haven't even tried for fear what I'd find. I can stomach homicide and war pictures, but Epstein is too much.
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I'm impressed. You guys cloned a whole suite of products in a short period of time that cost millions of dollars. Even the little bits of humor look costly. On the other hand, it's way more information than I expected. I can see w
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The details matter. Will it hurt? Is it subsidized and will be more expensive later or the other way around? How's the latency? What killer apps? Is it under health privacy laws or typical internet privacy laws? What likely side effect
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Sometimes you need regular meetings for workflows, like a retrospective meeting. You bring up problems, like bad UX. You analyze the cause of these problems. You don't jump to a solution (e.g. "Hey let's hire designers!!!&quo
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I have a project with them, processing auto insurance claims. Mostly extracting details from police reports like license plate numbers, extracting details of the incident. "Human in the loop doesn't help because the human would ju
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Looking into this, this reinforces my predictions? I looked up the Ford F-150 Lightning and a quote catches my eye: "When the electric truck debuted in 2022, Russia had just invaded Ukraine, disrupting supplies of nickel, a key materia
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- EVs will be in the Early Majority group, and 2/3 of them will be Chinese. At least 1 in 4 of new cars purchased will be EVs. - AI will innovate towards visuals, personality, and tool use. AI tool use will start to innovate past just
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The root of it is sales. Sales is getting your product in front of someone who needs it. Most likely that person is building a similar product themselves, but unable to do it as well as you. Problem 1: Pitch. You have a product they want, b
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Congrats. This sounds like a great way to build a "wrapper" product. Gather clean data on a particular niche and keep it in one place. Have something that's good at processing that data. No matter what "startup killers&q
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I'm fine with just Copilot. Opus 4.5 has excellent tool use, meaning it can jump in and out of a broad undocumented codebase better. It can evaluate what the code is trying to do. It's perfect for PRs - caught things like people s
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Likely a good deal of test coverage. At the far end of this is something like Facebook, which has everything monitored by A/B tests. If it breaks something that changes something serious, the alarm triggers. Move fast break things isn&
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There's an amazing, gamified app out there that uses standard learning optimization patterns. It's called Duolingo. Unfortunately, you can have a multi-year streak on it and still not speak the language. It is effectively a langua
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Health data is usually the highest level protected data under most laws. It's not about just insurance. Part of the problem is once data is out there, it can be used by any shady person. You can be discriminated against a job based on

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