yojo

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by yojo 11mo ago
I was responding to the claim that making money is in tension with helping kids learn. I think it’s fair to claim that a large enterprise will eventually crank the money dial to maximum extraction. But a solo dev is free to follow their con
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by yojo 11mo ago
A sustainable business has the capacity to help a lot more kids than an unfinished open source project that never gets released on iOS because no one wants to pay the developer fee. This isn’t “HackVille by Zynga,” it’s an indie dev trying
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by yojo 11mo ago
The HN crowd is touchy on some topics. Don’t take it too personally - good on you for building something cool and shipping it. FWIW my favorite non-predatory pattern is a level-limited free version with a single “unlock full game” IAP. That
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by yojo 1y ago
My time is still worth more slinging bits. But if that well runs dry, I’d consider it.
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by yojo 1y ago
I’ve heard similar prices for Europe and elsewhere in the world. The US pricing seems to be uniquely out of step with everywhere else.
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by yojo 1y ago
The equipment is actually a lot cheaper if you’re a pro - the DIY pre-charged line-set adds about $500 over an equivalent unit. Pulling a vacuum and adding coolant is not hard, just requires specialized tools that still aren’t that expensiv
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by yojo 1y ago
It’s bonkers. I bought a pre-charged ductless mini split to DIY. Took my dad and I about four hours to do the install. So call it 8 hours of semi-skilled labor. The unit was $1350, I added a line set cover, pad and feet for another $200, an
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by yojo 1y ago
I’ve also been looking at setting up a dumb phone for my kids, but haven’t thought to go the rPi Twilio route. There’s an existing product that seems to have some mindshare in the space: https://tincan.kids/ Basically $100
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by yojo 1y ago
I don't want to take the time writing up a cogent response to an article someone didn't bother taking the time to write. With this particular article, there were a couple of points I wanted to respond to, before I realized there w
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by yojo 1y ago
Yeah, I bounced hard off the article at #5. My AI detector was slow warming up but kicked on at: "Today’s real chain: React → Electron → Chromium → Docker → Kubernetes → VM → managed DB → API gateways." Like, yes, those are all te
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by yojo 1y ago
That was my first thought coming from SPA development. Like, is there even a meaningful translation between rendering logic written in a functional, declarative style to e.g. object-oriented imperative Java? How many LOCs of C would be requ
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by yojo 1y ago
Every time someone says “but dark fiber”, someone else has to point out that graphics cards are not infrastructure and depreciate at a much, much higher rate. I guess it’s my turn. Fiber will remain a valuable asset until/unless some m
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by yojo 1y ago
Capex requirements might be on a different curve than model improvements. E.g. you might need to accelerate spending to get sub-linear growth in model output. If valuations depend on hitting the curves described in the article, you might se
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by yojo 1y ago
I’m realizing we might be talking past each other. By “scroll-blocker” I meant a visual design that hides the fact that there’s more content down the page. It’s not literally preventing scrolling. Here’s a decent writeup on the problem and
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by yojo 1y ago
I’m on mobile Safari, but it’s the same on Chrome on my laptop. The scroll bar behavior is an OS-level setting. The default in MacOS is to not show scroll bars unless you’re actively scrolling. If you’re using an input device that doesn’t s
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by yojo 1y ago
Tell Claude to fix the scroll-blocker on the codeyam.com landing page. This seems to be a bad practice LLMs have internalized; there should be some indication that there’s more content below the fold. Either a little bit of the next section
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by yojo 1y ago
“Mesothelioma” had a $50+ cost-per-click for winning the ad auction.
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by yojo 1y ago
Even when they first turned on ads, it was arguably a net win. I worked AdWords tech-support 2005-2008, and sat in on the “Ads Quality” core team meeting. They basically had this big money dial, and rather than crank it to 11, they were fie
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by yojo 1y ago
I think there's a difference between silencing people, and having an algorithm that railroads people down a polarization hole. My biggest problem with YouTube isn't what it does/doesn't allow on its platform, it's t
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by yojo 1y ago
Preach. Also, don't forget making local testing/CI take longer to run, which costs you both compute and developer context switching. I've heard people rave about LLMs for writing tests, so I tried having Claude Code generate
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by yojo 1y ago
I think it’s the other end of the consumer web vs power user design spectrum. Using an OS requires familiarity and cognitive effort. Tapping oversized buttons… less so. There’s been a long trend (definitely as far back as the first iPhone r
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by yojo 1y ago
I can confirm that Google was using Perforce for version control extensively, at least through 2008. I think it was somehow customized, but I definitely have lingering muscle memory around “p4 sync” and “p4 submit”. I was on an internal too
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by yojo 1y ago
This is the terrifying part: doctors do this too! I have an MD friend that told me she uses ChatGPT to retrieve dosing info. I asked her to please, please not do that.
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by yojo 1y ago
I’ve run into this with “personal care items” that are non-returnable. E.g. I received a “two pack” of eye drops that had obviously popped open in the warehouse and contained only one bottle. I couldn’t do the regular return flow because hy
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by yojo 1y ago
My in-laws all love their reading glasses with a split-bridge joined by magnets, and a built-in loop around the back. I think it’s these: https://cliceyewear.com/ If you don’t mind the aesthetics (though I personally can’t
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by yojo 1y ago
Craigslist never sold out, but it went through a big scammer phase (and largely lost me). Looking for an apartment in SF in 2016 was a mix of property management co spam and outright fraudulent listings trying to scam you. Not sure if they
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by yojo 1y ago
I’ll give you another use: LLMs are really good at unearthing the “unknown unknowns.” If I’m learning a new topic (coding or not) summarizing my own knowledge to an LLM and then asking “what important things am I missing” almost always turn
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by yojo 1y ago
If a candidate doesn’t ask clarifying questions that lead them to an understanding of QPS, storage requirements, and throughput considerations, that’s a mark against. At that point, if you want to see them design a distributed system with a
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by yojo 1y ago
> With a goat? I think you meant Llama. The rhymes are admittedly more limited, unless you have a Boston accent.
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by yojo 1y ago
I took a Math 1A class (intro to calc) at Cal where the prof turned his back on class at the start of the hour, then proceeded to mumble incoherently for 60 minutes while filling a chalkboard with equations. He’d turn back around at the end

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