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by stevepotter 6mo ago
A link to a project that does the exact same thing, except it’s built with Rust
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by stevepotter 6mo ago
Praise about one their older projects that I used in the good ol’ days
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by stevepotter 6mo ago
A condescending put down from someone who has expertise in this area but also didn’t read the article and just felt like feeling superior this morning
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by stevepotter 6mo ago
It would be nice to see some of the software source. I’m super interested and i think I helped pay for it
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by stevepotter 6mo ago
I keep hearing “they aren’t intelligent” and spit out “crap code”. That’s not been my experience. LLMs prevented and also caught intricate concurrency issues that would have taken me a long time. I just went “hmmm, nice” and went on. The
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by stevepotter 7mo ago
I used to work for AWS on a service team. I noticed we were spending way too much on provisioned concurrency for dynamo and would benefit from on-demand provisioning. After proving it worked, making the change, deploying, was rather pleas
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by stevepotter 7mo ago
I'm just going to stand by until Microsoft is back in everyone's good graces again by releasing some oss software that we all swoon over
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by stevepotter 7mo ago
I might be wrong but this sounds like an ego issue more than anything. Twice you berated less skilled programmers. I’m skilled as well and it did sting when I realized that a relatively new technology could beat me. But there’s so much m
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by stevepotter 9mo ago
I still don't understand why someone would choose to essentially clone some code vs import a library. Suddenly you increase your maintenance burden, lose updates, etc. I've had no problems at all with UI libraries like Mantine.
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by stevepotter 9mo ago
I don't think it's hard, it's harder than people think it's going to be. So they get frustrated and start abstracting away, ignoring history and hoping their fresh approach will finally make this thing easy.
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by stevepotter 9mo ago
We went out of business, but I made a web app for videographers to collaborate during production. Same things as frame.io. This was over 15 years ago. Frontend was pretty vanilla except relied heavily on jQuery. The main section of the
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by stevepotter 9mo ago
Right. I encourage young devs to build a complex app using vanilla js. Feel the pain of two way state management. Then you’ll gain an appreciation for react. And you’ll learn browser APIs and know when react is overkill because it has i
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by stevepotter 11mo ago
Can you please elaborate on “smashed”? I’m very interested
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by stevepotter 11mo ago
Yup. AWS went down at a previous job and everyone basically took the day off and the company collectively chuckled. Cloudflare is interesting because most execs don’t know about it so I’d imagine they’d be less forgiving. “So what does cl
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by stevepotter 11mo ago
I got emotional thinking about a 13 year old releasing this. No brutal feedback, just proud of you buddy. Keep it going!
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by stevepotter 1y ago
This ad nonsense aside, don't buy Samsung refrigerators. They are so awfully made and difficult to service that almost no appliance repair companies will touch them. I got suckered into buying one a few years back and it was awful.
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by stevepotter 1y ago
This was downvoted? That’s sad. I tell folks getting started that they should build something without any framework so they can feel the pain that things like React are built to solve. Understanding the fundamentals is important so you c
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by stevepotter 1y ago
Ex employee here who built an aws service. Dynamo is basically mandated. You need like VP approval to use a relational database because of some scaling stuff they ran into historically. That sucks because we really needed a relational da
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by stevepotter 1y ago
Agree on the importance of testing. Among the production-grade codebases I've worked on, I've found that the dynamically-typed ones have more comprehensive testing. It's just so easy to think that a successful compile means
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by stevepotter 1y ago
Building something that combines software and hardware is so rewarding. Reach out to me if you have questions - steve at redefinesurgery.com
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by stevepotter 1y ago
Great analogy!
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by stevepotter 1y ago
Hey there, thanks for writing. For those who don't know, the sales reps have to carry in racks and racks of parts. Most go unused but the last thing you want is something to go wrong and not have the piece you need readily available.
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by stevepotter 1y ago
Thanks, buddy! I'm having fun. There are a few sides to it. There are the actual physical surgical tools that you have to design, test, and manufacture. Then there's the robot that adjusts those tools. That stuff is a lot of
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by stevepotter 1y ago
VR training hasn't really stuck in ortho training. It's legit and people do it, but it's a distant second to doing it live. I haven't seen that much of it, but from what I have seen, the fidelity is quite low. It woul
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by stevepotter 1y ago
I'm working on a system that helps surgeons make precise bone cuts during knee replacement surgery. Believe it or not, manual cuts are still the standard in that type of procedure. Robotic systems exist but they are very costly, big,
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by stevepotter 1y ago
I understand your point and if I were the author I would want either a disclaimer or a fix. File an issue or make a pr. Filing an issue is quicker and more fruitful than dealing with folks here
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by stevepotter 1y ago
Great, take care
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by stevepotter 1y ago
You're being too aggressive for my taste and I don't think there's any dialog to be had here. I was wrong though, this particular visa was O-1 and not H-1B and they are quite different. I was discussing a single person who
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by stevepotter 1y ago
No, I don't want to underpay imported people. I'm not talking about teams of low-skilled people. You don't know my situation, so I'll explain. I work in a startup that requires a specific ML computer vision skillset.
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by stevepotter 1y ago
As a startup, I cannot afford this. The big companies can. Guess who wins?

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