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by tkiolp4 7mo ago
I think in the future (in 10 years?) we are going to see a lot of disposable/throwaway software. I don’t know, imagine this: I need to buy tickets for a concert. I ask my AI agent that I want tickets. The agent creates code on the fly
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by tkiolp4 8mo ago
I love the aosa book. I learned a lot about systems design from it. Ironically, I usually fail the Systems Design interviews at fancy companies because they only ask about LBs, sharding, obscure data structures like CRDTs, and what not.
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by tkiolp4 8mo ago
This is fun because it’s pre-AI and most of the pics are real. Doing this nowadays would be a meh.
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by tkiolp4 9mo ago
You guys don’t have problems with letting these agents have access to private company code? I use them only for early prototypes that we discard early , but can’t use them with legacy codebases because reasons.
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by tkiolp4 9mo ago
Please provide a PDF as well. I cannot read books in HTML format because I need to keep track of where i left. That means I either have to leave the browser tab open (but this is prone to accidentally closing it) or I need to bookmark every
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by tkiolp4 9mo ago
Depends. If it’s with ICs, sure. But as soon as some manager or someone with a leadership position joins, then it’s just plain work. So I dislike chitchatting with such people.
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by tkiolp4 9mo ago
Same! If I see the first people joining are managers or above, I just wait until I see other engineers join. I hate managers talk, I couldn’t care less about them.
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by tkiolp4 9mo ago
HN is so depressing, but at the same time so Im addicted to it. It’s like tiktok but for people who enjoy plain text and hacking related stuff. When I first visited HN more than 10 years ago (without account) like, 90% of the content was ex
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by tkiolp4 9mo ago
But what about laptops? I don’t use desktop machines anymore (last time was in 2012). Apple laptops are top notch. I use ubuntu as vm (headless) for software development tho
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by tkiolp4 9mo ago
I think it’s easier than that. We can literally start the revolution from our beds: 1. For every social media account you have: post “I’m leaving. You should too” 2. For every social media account you have: close it. 3. Profit
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by tkiolp4 10mo ago
I think it’s all about balance. In my free time I do “slow” programming: I read the timeless books of our craft (e.g., TAOCP), I spend lots of time writing code by hand, debugging, using pen and paper to think, etc. I love it. All the crap
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by tkiolp4 11mo ago
Nice website. I got the newsletter popup, but it was cute, not annoying like they usually are.
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by tkiolp4 1y ago
Talking about hardcoded api keys, what’s the usual approach when dealing with a mobile app that talks to an api? Users don’t need auth to use the app (they do login via an alphanumeric code they get via marketing). I only know how to do th
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by tkiolp4 1y ago
Never used spotlight. I have it disabled permanently. I don’t like the indexing.
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by tkiolp4 1y ago
The new UI is horrible. That’s it. No need to deep analysis.
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by tkiolp4 1y ago
If only 1% give money to homeless people, that’s… a good place to beg for money. I would probably make more there than what i make at my fancy software engineering job (100K before taxes per year): - 36000 people - let’s say each give 10 ce
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by tkiolp4 1y ago
I use AI at work, and certainly I’m doing less deep thinking over time. But at home, on side projects I still do it the traditional way. This is because I enjoy the process of thinking (rather than shipping. I actually never shipped any sid
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by tkiolp4 1y ago
As I work more with AI, I’ve came to the conclusion that I have no patience to read AI-generated content, whether the content is right or wrong. I just feel like it’s time wasted. Countless of examples: meeting summaries (nobody reads them)
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by tkiolp4 1y ago
You don’t get it. People don’t add “is-arrayish” directly as a dependency. It goes like this: 1) N tiny dubious modules like that are created by maintainers (like Qix) 2) The maintainer then creates 1 super useful non-tiny module that impor
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by tkiolp4 1y ago
They should ban Qix.
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by tkiolp4 1y ago
That’s a tactic shitty maintainers do: write N dubious modules that no sane person would install. Write one or two valuable modules that import those N dubious modules.
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by tkiolp4 1y ago
As a worker, I don’t care about squeezing the last drop of productivity that’s in me. I care about wasting time commuting, paying insane rents for tiny small apartments in the city, not having lunch with my loved ones. I understand the topi
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by tkiolp4 1y ago
Im still using an iphone 6s, ios 15.8.3 Not afraid of getting “hacked” tbh. I visit normal websites, and have less than 10 standard apps.
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by tkiolp4 1y ago
I do visit it from time to time, when chatgpt gets stuck and I lost my patience. It’s either SO or github issues, whatever google throws at me.
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by tkiolp4 1y ago
At least in western Europe it doesn’t look like ai is taking over anything. Maybe in the US it is different
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by tkiolp4 1y ago
I read it as both Google and Apple are shit. We should stop using their products step by step.
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by tkiolp4 1y ago
LLMs are just another layer of abstraction on top of countless. It’s not going to be the last layer, though.
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by tkiolp4 1y ago
> Nobody will care how ripped or intellectually well-rounded you were when you are dead if your life did not make a positive impact on others. What happened to making life enjoyable for oneself? That’s also a noble goal. And if being int
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by tkiolp4 1y ago
Exactly. If any, the US is one of those countries everybody else is afraid of. Americans may be proud of that, but that’s pure bullying.
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by tkiolp4 1y ago
Fuck google. Fuck chrome. Enough of these bastards making the web their playground. Revolutions must start somewhere, HN is full of bright people, let’s not get fooled so easily with shiny toys.

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