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by paulcole 1y ago
God I hope Remarkable never adds a Kindle app or any other kind of ebook reading app. If they do it means they’ve given up on their core which is a digital replacement for a paper notebook. That’s all I want from them. I was excited to orde
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by paulcole 1y ago
> Ask for a plan but ask it to implement the plan in small steps and ask the model to test each step before starting the next. Tried this on a developer I worked with once and he just scoffed at me and pushed to prod on a Friday.
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by paulcole 1y ago
> To get that to work half-decent, you have to take on a PM/Tech-lead role, you're no longer a senior engineer. But you’re saying it can be half-decent? The problem is that about 75% of HN commenters have their identities tig
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by paulcole 1y ago
Huh? The thing you want may just not exist. That’s life, right?
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by paulcole 1y ago
> One thing I always have wished that my reMarkable 2 had was web browser. It’s crazy how direct Remarkable is about what their devices are and then the number of people who buy them and wish they were something else.
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by paulcole 1y ago
Yes, I’ll admit that before clicking the link I thought this was going to be yet another navel-gazing tech-bro humble-brag blog post.
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by paulcole 1y ago
Curious what your estimate is for what percentage of teams are actually underperforming? And then of those underperforming teams, what percentage of those would the team members identify themselves as part of underperforming teams?
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by paulcole 1y ago
Dang, crazy that AI content appears in front of your eyes when you turn off your computer and put your phone down. Personally I can’t get enough of AI and AI hype. It’s nearly certainly going to be the biggest technological leap forward of
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by paulcole 1y ago
> the tendency to internalize rejection as a sense of being inherently 'bad.‘ OK so just avoid this tendency.
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by paulcole 1y ago
There’s almost nothing to be gained by writing about AI (particularly anything remotely positive). The anti-AI people are absolutely foaming at the mouth about how bad it is. Best to let them have their fun while the rest of us are quietly
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by paulcole 1y ago
> Of course, once you internalize this belief, any motivation to study is gone This is definitely not a universal truth. I know that if I had done better in every interview then I would’ve moved ahead and gotten the job. I guess that’s a
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by paulcole 1y ago
Because I have a fundamentally different view than the comment I replied to.
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by paulcole 1y ago
I'm 45 years old. I've woken up 16,000+ times and it's been fine. I know what I do on computers/phones/iPads. I know that every computer/phone/iPad I've ever owned has done more or less what I wanted.
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by paulcole 1y ago
Neat! That’s why I said, “I’m personally OK with…” rather than “You’re personally OK with…”
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by paulcole 1y ago
Oh it’s intentional.
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by paulcole 1y ago
How can I lose something that I don’t have any interest in having?
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by paulcole 1y ago
> This is based on the false assumption that the free market solves every problem. I assure you it is not.
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by paulcole 1y ago
> How do meet your own needs and desires if you can't use your own property the way you want? My needs and desires aren’t that complicated. There’s nothing that I really want or need to do that I can’t do on my phone or iPad.
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by paulcole 1y ago
> Every day we stray farther from the premise that we should be allowed to install / modify software on the computers we own. I’ve never agreed with this premise. I buy things that mostly meet my needs and desires in every other wal
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by paulcole 1y ago
> if you are absolutely certain there is no conceivable way your service will be used from some regions. This isn’t the bar you need to clear. It’s “if you’re comfortable with people in some regions not being able to use your service.”
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by paulcole 1y ago
> we were not able to do this before llms, but now we can I’m in a leadership/operational role at a small marketing agency. Pre-LLM I was writing a variety of scripts manually to automate and simplify processes. With LLMs, I’m still
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by paulcole 1y ago
> what are some clues that code is AI generated? Who gives a shit? If it works it works.
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by paulcole 1y ago
The less desperate you are the more leverage you have in every situation.
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by paulcole 1y ago
Spend less than you earn. Live well below your means. Do this for years and everything gets easier. You can also just try to earn a shitload of money and not worry about it. Personally I’ve found the live cheaply option to be much easier.
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by paulcole 1y ago
Funny how devs here used to love bragging about how their job isn't to write code and that they shouldn't be measured on LOC. Now suddenly the problem is that AI can't write a lot of code.
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by paulcole 1y ago
> In light of that I'd still love it if HN created an ignore feature This is why I always think the HN reader apps that people make using the API are some of the stupidest things imaginable. They’re always self-described as “beautif
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by paulcole 1y ago
> Claudia's Features: Everything You Need, Beautifully Designed I’d really love to know what specifically about this is beautiful. Steve Jobs says it and for 20+ years every tech bro parrots it mindlessly. “Oh do I think I did a goo
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by paulcole 1y ago
“1000 songs in your pocket.” Was that a lie when Apple said it about the iPod?
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by paulcole 1y ago
> Many devs don't like "bullshitting” In my experience they seem to love this but will call it “thinking from first principles” or something else to make sure they don’t sound like (gag) marketing people.
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by paulcole 1y ago
> I, like many people, find LinkedIn particularly annoying Oh wow, I’m sure this isn’t going to be an evenhanded look at the situation.

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