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by stevoski 1y ago
Wow, this is still a thing! I lost two university friends to the Discworld MUD. As in, their whole lifestyle, hours, and activities changed to be working on and playing it all night long in the uni labs, and they no longer did anything else
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by stevoski 1y ago
As an employer, I’m always slightly disappointed when a job candidate doesn’t try to negotiate the salary I offer. I find myself wanting to say, “Haven’t you read Patrick’s essay? Please go read it and come back!” But of course, as a self-i
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by stevoski 1y ago
Using HTMX in my B2B SaaS allowed me to enjoy coding for the web again. I had lost that joy somewhere along the way. And our customers seem very content with the way our product works. (For the record: yes, it’s a stable, profitable, long-e
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by stevoski 1y ago
Sadly, free hosting or distribution for fun ideas like this one leads to bad actors abusing the service.
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by stevoski 1y ago
Jason Bell was the name, I think, of the kid in my high school who died from leukaemia. Popular, athletic, good-looking guy. Then one day it was announced in the school news that he had passed away.
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by stevoski 1y ago
Your product is similar to one I own. I checked out your website. It’s good. Unsolicited advice: you gotta charge more for this product. A lot more. We charge up to $250/month or $3000/year. Some customers (companies you’ve most l
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by stevoski 1y ago
I find it fascinating that JavaScript has so many "WTF?" things like this, and yet is so incredibly successful. Being available everywhere (as far as browsers are concerned) trumps almost all other factors.
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by stevoski 1y ago
Ah, the title was edited, so now my comment seems nonsensical.
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by stevoski 1y ago
To save you the click, it’s about building a solar electricity system. And not a cosmic solar system.
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by stevoski 1y ago
Bad luck if you don’t yet have (or know) your national ID. National id is not something issued at birth in the country I live in. It’s something applied for at a certain age.
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by stevoski 1y ago
I know someone who doesn’t know when she was born, nor who her mother is. She doesn’t have a birth certificate. She was born in a country that was enduring several years of brutal war. I know another person whose national ID was changed. Sy
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by stevoski 1y ago
> “Resource leaks, where resources like files, database connections, or streams aren’t properly released after use, are a persistent issue in Java applications” This was true maybe back in 2005. Java has had try-with-resources for a looo
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by stevoski 1y ago
I find this really interesting, and meets my (limited) Rails experience and (extensive) Java experience: I found it hard taking over an existing Rails project - it felt frail to me, that any small change might have unexpected consequences.
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by stevoski 1y ago
The Java 1 example uses lambdas, which were introduced in Java 8. It’s probably intentional, because it allows showing the Java 1 Thread approach succinctly. But as long-term Java person, I find it jarring.
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by stevoski 1y ago
I'd wager that paying customers really don't care whether the images look AI-generated or not. They care much more about whether this product solves a problem they have. This is based on my 17 years of running first a successful B
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by stevoski 1y ago
Lebanon. Especially Beirut. The honking. Every taxi driver that passed me if I was walking down the street. Honking. Honking. So much noise. All the time. Six months I was there. Six months of honking honking honking.
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by stevoski 1y ago
Barcelona has a distinctive paving style; it has become a symbol of the city. If you live here and see it everyday, you spot it instantly when watching TV show or movie that was made here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by stevoski 1y ago
A good starting point is Joshua Bloch’s Effective Java. He shares some stories there from Java’s early days, and - at least in passing - mentions some aspects of the String class’s history.
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by stevoski 1y ago
I find the entire history of improvements to Java’s String class enjoyable to read about. Over the years, the implementation of Java’s String class has been improved again and again, offering performance improvements and memory usage reduct
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by stevoski 1y ago
If you get a one- or two-person SaaS to $10K MMR, and then tell the detailed story in places like HN, you get copycatted many times. People will reproduce what you made - to the pixel. It is really, really frustrating. Founders who have exp
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by stevoski 1y ago
Analyst: “So this part of the UML diagram is right? A fizz always belongs to a buzz?” Domain expert: “Yes, always” Analyst: “Any exceptions you can think of?” Domain expert: “No, none at all.” —- Forward to day 1 after “delivery” of the imp
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by stevoski 2y ago
Java has an almost unbroken history of hassle-free version updates, all the way back to Java 1.0. (Okay, okay, I know you have a specific anecdote of a broken version update. I said “almost”.) The one major exception was from Java 8 to Java
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by stevoski 2y ago
> "If you're making a dynamic page, then you want to push as much logic to the client as possible because far more users are latency-limited than compute-limited" That's an assertion I don't agree with. Data stil
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by stevoski 2y ago
I’m enjoying the whole “why didn’t the Incas just…” discussion going on here. It’s peak HN.
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by stevoski 2y ago
> How do you actually find people to prospect? 1) Start with your personal network: Friends in similar line of work, former colleagues. Contact them and tell them what you are doing “just in case you encounter someone who I can help”. 2)
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by stevoski 2y ago
I see. I was commenting on the reality of his current site. He has a purchase form, where you purchase for $5, connected to Stripe. In more detail: A bad actor with a large quantity of stolen credit card info who finds this site (and eventu
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by stevoski 2y ago
I read it all. No need for snark. Not sure which one of my points you are refuting with that quote.
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by stevoski 2y ago
“Are you coming with?” After a few years living in Germany (as a native English speaker), my English and that of my friends became peppered with these German-isms.
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by stevoski 2y ago
OP is in for a nasty surprise when they discover that the customers who complain the loudest are those that pay the least, and that it is difficult to turn a profit on a low-priced service due to the cost of acquiring customers. Edit: And c
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by stevoski 2y ago
Us computer scientists (or developers or coders or whatever we are called at the moment) typically think we are really smart. We can be unbearable know-it-alls, really. And yet we screw up, collectively and individually, over and over again

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