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by sbecker 7mo ago
Hi, great write up and very cool project! I was wondering how you arrived at the idea to use OSRM and pre-computing the drive time from every exit to every POI. Was that something you learned existed along the way? Did Claude/codex poi
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by sbecker 1y ago
> “ Three factors were required to join this holy ensemble: the technical expertise to design a capable and reliable microcomputer, a nose for the larger business opportunity latent in the hobby computer market…” I think the same opportu
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by sbecker 2y ago
My 7 year old loves it! He likes the animations, how the creatures get the questions wrong sometimes, and the math questions. Questions were - why do we play a wizard guy (he wants to play as different characters), why does the scorpion dro
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by sbecker 2y ago
Sounds like you just need interview practice. (Your post seems more about interview nerves than ADHD issues). It’s a different skill, separate from being a good coder. It’s difficult to tell from your post if you have had any interviews yet
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by sbecker 3y ago
Just to provide some counterpoint to the echo chamber here - as a Dad of a six year old who played with legos as a kid and again now, I can affirm - Legos and the sets they put out now are way cooler now than when I was a kid! You might wor
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by sbecker 3y ago
Sounds like a great hire for the CIA or MI6
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by sbecker 3y ago
No one uses API keys with Copilot intentionally. If you install the VSCode extension and start using it, and you happen to open a file that has an API key in it, boom - it's sent to Copilot. That is the issue. It's currently like
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Ask HN: VSCode, GitHub Copilot – Too easy to leak confidential info?
3 points by sbecker 3y ago|2 comments
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by sbecker 4y ago
I just watched the demo and personally thought it was amazing. Don't give up! Keep going!
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by sbecker 4y ago
You haven't really tried everything if you "don't want to hire sales people or a marketing firm of any kind." This might be a self limiting belief. You can learn by hiring someone / paying someone for a limited time
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by sbecker 4y ago
Caprover is nice and convenient but security wise, only a single password field is required on the admin console. (See demo here: https://captain.server.demo.caprover.com/#/login ) Given this it would be nice to at leas
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by sbecker 5y ago
I use TripIt for multi-person travel itineraries. It does allow for sharing and multiple contributors. It is not necessarily for getting consensus on activities, but for centralizing all of your confirmed plans in one place.
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by sbecker 6y ago
This exchange is why HN is great. :)
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by sbecker 6y ago
> We've built it so that our servers never have to see any sensitive information. If true, this is a key selling point and should probably be somewhere near the top of the homepage. I didn't get that point from reading any of t
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by sbecker 6y ago
Increasing skepticism of science and evidence-based decision making.
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Providing a Rewarding Software Internship(olioapps.com)
1 points by sbecker 6y ago|0 comments
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Development on Hard Mode: How to Deal with Crunch(olioapps.com)
3 points by sbecker 7y ago|0 comments
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Implementing REST Hooks(olioapps.com)
5 points by sbecker 7y ago|0 comments
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Daily Stand-Up: Productivity Asset or Monstrous Waste of Time?(olioapps.com)
1 points by sbecker 7y ago|0 comments
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Prototyping vs. Production Development: Avoid Creating a Monster(olioapps.com)
2 points by sbecker 7y ago|0 comments
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by sbecker 7y ago
Regarding your second point, I believe it is still possible to query an external source. Read the docs on “Remote Schemas” - https://docs.hasura.io/1.0/graphql/manual/remote-schemas/ind...
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Legacies Never Die: How to Handle Legacy Code(olioapps.com)
3 points by sbecker 7y ago|1 comments
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Gracefully Handling Newness: Tips for Software Developers(olioapps.com)
1 points by sbecker 7y ago|0 comments
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Prototyping Native Mobile Apps in 5 Minutes(olioapps.com)
21 points by sbecker 8y ago|2 comments
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Magic Leap – First Impressions(olioapps.com)
3 points by sbecker 8y ago|0 comments
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by sbecker 8y ago
Part 2 of study: "Insufficient Sleep Associated with Risky Adult Behavior As Well!"
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Love Thy Selenium Tests: Functional Tests That Fail Only When Supposed To(olioapps.com)
2 points by sbecker 8y ago|0 comments
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by sbecker 8y ago
Your startup should have ordered the laptop in advance of your start date. My company standardizes on the 16gb model. They never have them in store, we have to order them online, about a week or so before we need them.
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Checking Types Against the Real World in TypeScript(olioapps.com)
3 points by sbecker 8y ago|0 comments
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Why we're excited about Immersive Reality(olioapps.com)
4 points by sbecker 9y ago|0 comments

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