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by onion2k 10mo ago
The zeroth filter is 'people who apply to YC' though, which YC can only really control by managing their brand and marketing and by approaching potential founders directly and suggesting they apply (I assume that happens; I don&#x
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by onion2k 10mo ago
Nice idea, but unless it's using up-to-date docs it's likely to introduce a lot of confusion, especially if you're reading docs to find out what changed between versions. You really need to be sending the code and the versi
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by onion2k 10mo ago
On the frontend, you have build pipelines, bundlers, CSS frameworks with their own toolchains, progressive web apps, Core Web Vitals, SEO, layout shifts, srcset/responsive images… I've been making web stuff for a similar length
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by onion2k 10mo ago
If you need a comment to explain 'w' means 'weight' then you should remove the comment and rename the variable 'weight'.
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by onion2k 10mo ago
The likes will give that instant dopamine but it will never fill that need of accomplishing something. The money from sponsors that comes with building a popular account goes a long way to mitigate that though.
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by onion2k 10mo ago
They don't know anything at all about outcomes. Systems rarely do, whether it's AI or not. Outcomes are 'output * impact', where the impact is what we measure when we see changes driven by the output of the system. In
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by onion2k 10mo ago
That only matters if the system you're using requires a specific input to achieve the desired outcome. For example, I can write a prompt for Claude Code to 'write a tic tac toe game in React' and it will give me a working tic
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by onion2k 10mo ago
At that point it becomes waste. That doesn't mean it's waste now.
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by onion2k 10mo ago
I'm not saying it does. I'm saying that banning a user who is making a mistake in one area means you lose the value they provide in another (which might be valid issues, but equally it might be 90% of your revenue or something), s
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by onion2k 10mo ago
It’s a lot of plastic. A lot of waste. It's only waste if it's being discarded. If someone wants to keep it and cherish it, even if they're not playing it, then it's not waste.
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by onion2k 10mo ago
I'm curious - does the music content actually matter to you? Would you buy an album from an artist you've never heard just because the cover art was great?
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by onion2k 10mo ago
An non-issue raised as an issue can never be closed, because the person who reported it will just open another one saying "Why did you close my issue without fixing it?" If that user is also raising valid, useful issues then you d
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by onion2k 10mo ago
Isnt it that nowadays usually on the side of the driving seat? Or does this apply only to EU vehicles? That would mean designing two separate entire fuel tank placements, fuel lines, etc for cars that are available both in left- and right
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by onion2k 10mo ago
No, the other other way.
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by onion2k 10mo ago
Hacker News, probably noticeably since 2016 or so, has been a negative, curmudgeonly place. No it hasn't.
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by onion2k 10mo ago
The problem with your hypothesis is that 'a woman being nice to you' (brown-nosing or otherwise) is in absolutely no way whatsoever flirting. Flirting is an entirely different way of behaving.
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by onion2k 10mo ago
My father was a software engineer (working on satellite control systems ... very cool stuff) and he bought a ZX Spectrum in the mid 80s when I was about 8. That gave me access to Basic and I picked up the fundamentals from there. I didn&#x2
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by onion2k 10mo ago
Anyone can load up Claude code and start trial and erroring until they get something that works and has similar reliability to accepted software.. You still need to understand the code that AI is generating to fix the problems that you ca
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by onion2k 10mo ago
Any company offering above market compensation is engaging in illegal activity? To quote Randall Munroe, "Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing &#x
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by onion2k 10mo ago
I think that's provably untrue based on the fact Saturday morning cartoons were massively popular as a curated content feed on TVs through the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Kids (including me at the time) loved them and sank many hours into wat
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by onion2k 10mo ago
Yeah, you'll do that, and get great feedback, and then when you roll it out to other users they'll do weird stuff you've not seen any of the test group try before. Users being weird are the fundamental root cause of all softw
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by onion2k 10mo ago
Start your own company. Eventually you'll want to know what users are doing, and specifically why they're not doing what you expected them to do after you spent ages crafting the perfect user journeys around your app. Then you&#
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by onion2k 10mo ago
There will be a new FIFA World Cup champion unless Argentina does the unthinkable. Maybe the hand of God will help them out again. ;) (For people who aren't familiar - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_hand_of_Go
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by onion2k 10mo ago
Getting a site to load quickly isn't that difficult from a technical perspective. You just need to strip out everything that slows it down. If you can deliver a page of HTML and inlined CSS that renders without JS or images then your s
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by onion2k 10mo ago
I've use the Gemini app on my phone a fair bit recently and I've not seen it. That said, I don't think I've seen any popups either. Maybe I've blocked them...
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by onion2k 10mo ago
Pictures on websites have always been either stolen from other sites a long time ago, then stock pictures from Unsplash or Pexels for a while, and now they're AI because that's just the easiest way to get images now. I don't
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by onion2k 10mo ago
It's not really, but the difference is that I'm limited by the supply of BTC, and it requires that I actually have the money to make the 'bet' at the start. That restricts the size of the spot market. If I'm buying
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by onion2k 10mo ago
Why would you expect the scale of the derivatives to be related to the scale of the spot market, especially if the derivatives are cash-settled futures? One is basically gambling on the price of BTC going up or down, and the other is tradin
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by onion2k 10mo ago
It's more wild that everyone's first reaction to seeing a new product is "probably vibe-coded AI slop". We held so little respect for the craft of software engineering that AI managed to kill it completely in about two y
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by onion2k 10mo ago
From the FAQ: Yes, many teams use Gitmore to eliminate or reduce daily standups. Instead of synchronous meetings where developers report what they worked on, Gitmore automatically extracts this information from Git activity. If your stand

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