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VeejayRampay

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About VeejayRampay

data engineer

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    Comment #48759730

    but have they integrated homebrew, have they made it a first class citizen, have they provided money or something? the answer is "maybe to some small extent, but not really"

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    Comment #48759680

    the older talented people are there because of money there's nothing special about the US, it's money

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    Comment #48759630

    you think it's shitty, but it's a personal opinion that you're phrasing as some kind of widely accepted view be sure that it's not, lots of people actually PREFER Android

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    Comment #48745311

    see homebrew, they could have made this an official thing but no, they prefer to let people work do their work for them and sleep on their mattress of cash despicable business prac…

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    Comment #48744456

    capital and talent is the same in this context there's no shortage of talent in Europe or France, it's just an issue of available capital

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    Comment #48728578

    incredibly cliché and essentialist view of the world, reads like a bad pseudoscientific self help book from the 90's

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    Comment #48728493

    he's obviously a xenophobe, that's the opposite of being empathetic he supports a party that flat out talks about immigrants as parasites, let's not try to paint him and a good guy…

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    Comment #48682974

    I really wish people stopped saying things "I've been saying that" why not just say "I think that" do you see yourself as some kind of visionary about this particular topic? litera…

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    Comment #48077710

    tried using zed, didn't understand how to set up claude code integration, went back to vscode where setting up claude code is trivial

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    Comment #47995917

    crazy how people on hacker news, who just gobble up anything if it's from openai or anthropic suddenly become monocled sceptics when chinese open models are "winning"

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    Comment #46405277

    it is absolutely a huge deal, I suspect you work daily in python but with a small number of repositories that dont change too often

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    Comment #46130409

    no, I find Gemini to be the best

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    Comment #46130315

    what do you mean "catches up" Gemini has been as good as GPT for more than a year OpenAI still somehow gets the edge on the initial veneer of hype, and that's running thin

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    Comment #46090795

    ruff is a blessing as well and soon ty will make type checking so much better (or pyrefly which also seems great)

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    Comment #45674617

    thanks for this post it should be repeated ad-nauseam that he is a crook, a shame for the country and its values and that the whole discourse about the injustice of the sentencing …

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    Comment #45614056

    you're not in the minority, there's just intense fanboyism on Hacker News to promote OpenAI, because it serves the whole "LLM revolution" schtick better Gemini has been dominating …

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    Comment #45567819

    due to the nature of PDF, none of the tools mentioned here can do things as simple as detecting tables on pages with high accuracy PDF is absolutely mint for display but it really …

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    Comment #45443453

    python will be the last man standing with basically no functional goodies people will keep on trucking with their "pythonic" for loops containg appends to a list that was initializ…

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    Comment #45332040

    remotely related, but I have yet to find a solution for page classification in a document for tables, i.e. a classifier that returns the index of pages containing tables in a docum…

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    Comment #45276986

    for context, the author is Aaron Patterson of Ruby and Ruby and Rails fame, a proficient C programmer and overall hacker, he knows his stuff

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    Comment #45239997

    it's funny to observe how picky and cynical the HN crowd suddenly becomes when the disruptive technology is from china

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    Comment #45238261

    160 comments on this, OpenAI is definitely not the hype anymore

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    Comment #44986777

    it is pedantic, everyone knows what "node" means in this context

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    Comment #44984415

    and speed, it's way way faster