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by senko 7mo ago
With all due respect to what Jason Fried &co have achieved, this is wrong. Bespoke sofware does exist. And yes, consultants small and large have built, deployed, and charged through the roof for bespoke software. And often it sucks. Her
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by senko 7mo ago
I've noticed that on a paid (Plus) plan: > If you want, I can also point out the one mistake that causes these [...] > If you want, I can also show one trick used in studios for [...] > If you want, I can also show one pl
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by senko 7mo ago
I use Kagi search all the time. I often use the Quick Answer feature (append "?" at the end of the query, gives an AI overview/answer, then standard search results below). I never use the full Assistant - I have ChatGPT and C
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by senko 7mo ago
I've been using Balsamiq since back in 2012 (perhaps earlier, can't find an earlier reference in email), when it was all in Flash/Flex (IIRC). For UX, approach like that can often work. For non-UI stuff, more complex processe
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by senko 7mo ago
> Why can't we figure out the right thing faster by building the wrong thing faster? > Because usually the customer can only tolerate so many failed attempts per unit of time. Running your fitness function is often very expensive
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by senko 7mo ago
Thank you. I swear I read that three times and missed the other criteria until you pointed it out and then I found it. :/
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by senko 7mo ago
You may want to clarify that on https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb because the README there says: > Blog has recent posts (<7 days old) This may be different than inclusion criteria for websites in general,
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by senko 8mo ago
As someone who likes understanding systems and inventing new things AND is happy to delegate drudgery to AI, according to you, I shouldn't exist. Naturally, I disagree.
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by senko 8mo ago
So not only does he have to show what he built with AI, what he built with AI has to be interesting and unique to you? Why? He's not selling it to you. Seems like the bar is now it has to be a mass market product. On another post someo
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Flame Wars and Hype Fatigue(blog.senko.net)
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by senko 8mo ago
Wholly agreed. The way Disney &co coopted law to pack their coffers is a travesty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
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by senko 8mo ago
That's still light years better than Slack. The thing lags a few seconds while typing a message on a 20 core 128g ram machine. That's with their desktop (electron) app. Mercifully, the web app works better. Still, CC blows it ou
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by senko 8mo ago
> Wow, look at those luxurious titlebars, windows edges, scrollbars, and tabs! So easy to use. That's just Motif: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_(software) Shame it wasn't under an open license to b
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by senko 8mo ago
Maybe, just maybe, this whole AI thing could result in us collectively waking up and realizing copyright is entirely unsuitable for software.
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by senko 8mo ago
Just tested it with my version of the pelican test: a minimal RTS game implementation (zero-shot in codex cli): https://gist.github.com/senko/596a657b4c0bfd5c8d08f44e4e5347... (you'll have to download and open the
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by senko 8mo ago
Reread the parent: clean room is not required.
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by senko 8mo ago
> "How do we protect ourselves against a competitor doing this?" DMCA. The EULA likely prohibits reverse engineering. If a competitor does that, hit'em with lawyers. Or, if you want to be able to sleep at night, recognize
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by senko 8mo ago
That's a very incorrect reading. AI can't be the author of the work. Human driving the AI can, unless they zero-shotted the solution with no creative input.
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by senko 8mo ago
> then throw it away and let your Engineers build the real thing Aaah, but the pull of "it's already built, 90% is done, let the eng polish it and that's it!" productivity siren song is strong...
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by senko 8mo ago
I thought this was going to be about (customer support) chatbots, which can be a good thing. " Don't make me talk to your [customer support] chatbot " reads like " Don't make me go to an ATM for a cash withdrawal
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by senko 8mo ago
> This isn't an SEO problem. This is a Google problem. Sorry, but this is a SEO problem. The fake site has probably been linked to by a number of high-SEO outlets. What you should do is contact them and tell them to fix the links (t
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by senko 8mo ago
Perhaps this was worded poorly, but the parent is referring to inability to source these processors from Apple and use them in other (non-Apple devices). As in, they don't sell you the parts, they only sell you the entire product. If y
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by senko 8mo ago
> But all of those matter, and are not isolated. And have been done to death elsewhere. Meanwhile, Berger produces balanced, informed, interesting, and informative coverage of space tech (in general, not just SpaceX).
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by senko 8mo ago
Berger wrote 2 books about SpaceX (not Musk), and he definitely does not have a pro-Musk bias. He's is careful not to opine on Musk's other dealings, which is fair. As someone who wants to know more about SpaceX, I don't wa
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by senko 8mo ago
Most of the comments here talk about the GIMP UX. Fair point, but misses the article entirely. > [Øyvind] is the maintainer of GEGL and babl, the color engines of GIMP. His work was instrumental in (among many other things) the long-wait
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by senko 8mo ago
Yeah I did pour a lot of sweat and thinking into that codebase all those years ago. When I do a drive-by edit, I probably don't remember it in a week. Which is why the "cognitive debt" from the article is relevant, IMHO. If I
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by senko 8mo ago
I recently did some work on a codebase I last touched 4 years ago. I didn't remember every line but I still had a very good grasp of how and why it's put together. (edit: and no, I don't have some extra good memory)
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by senko 8mo ago
Yeah this was a few trees at the edge of the forest leaning over some houses, needed clearing. "Should be fine", but they're not keen on taking the (personal, physical) risk. Thing is, you can't narrow it down to some ac
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by senko 8mo ago
Thank you for all your hard work with HN, it's really appreciated! Yesterday must've been hectic :)
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by senko 8mo ago
Just this week I talked to a person doing tree pruning/forestry, they were negotiating a job in a rural area in Croatia (wider Karlovac area). The particular patch of land is still suspected to contain mines, although "in theory&q

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