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amrangaye

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    Comment #48529582

    So many things - reminds me of the days when you'd throw together a quick shell or Perl script to solve a very particular itch. So I have a whole collection of apps, portals, demos…

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    Comment #45349247

    Spoken like someone who’s never lived under a dictatorship :)

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    Comment #45012499

    “Kills the fun part of coding” - absolutely not! Coding is a lot more fun now that I can move from idea to working prototype in an evening without having to figure out individual l…

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    Comment #43648856

    I think he missed one of the use cases for advertising: providing “free” services to people in the “third world”. I come from west Africa, majority of people can’t afford to pay fo…

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    Comment #43539492

    Not yet as I’m still finessing it to her needs. She has a problem getting rid of thumb sucking, and finally asked for a fairy tale with a thumb sucking princess who eventually stop…

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    Comment #43539473

    Will do. Hn has no way of tagging people or following up though so I’m not sure how to share once I go live. But if you shoot me a message I’ll update you once done. amrangaye at g…

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    Comment #43539456

    Thank you. Yes she’s been enjoying them a lot now that we don’t have to repeat the same stories every night :) I’ll share on here once I’m done and also the right up.

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    Comment #43535835

    Does “vibe coding” count :-) I’m from west Africa and lately been very interested in African fairy tales to read to my daughter. Ended up building ( a GPT-backed interface that can…

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    Comment #42979825

    +1. And “figure out a government ledger” sounds like a friend who would ask why google spend so much money when “it’s just one page with a search box”. Government spending and the …

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    Comment #42486606

    “The majority of them don’t even have taste” - by your definition of taste perhaps? :-) just sounds condescending - taste is whatever they like, not what you decide is good to like…

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    Comment #42378078

    Only a “laughable debate” and “just the free market” if you haven’t actually had to deal with these insurance companies when you have a health issue and have never paid your dues l…

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    Comment #41844298

    Sidebar: interesting how you typed out the email address (I’ve also seen variations like me at gmail dot com). This worked for spam and phishing crawlers that just did a brute forc…

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    Comment #40761563

    What prompts do you use for DnD / dungeon master? Think this would be great for solo campaigns.

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    Comment #40676815

    I’m heavily invested in 1p for years now, but have been impressed by the new Apple Passwords app (in beta) - it’s nowhere near as advanced, but it implements like 90% of what you n…

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    Comment #40506284

    That makes more sense. Thanks.

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    Comment #40495386

    Sorry I don’t understand - the link you posted shows that “most people” actually speak mandarin and Spanish?

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    Comment #39807626

    lol - just out of curiosity: are you doing this yourself? Provide tech support to all your aunties and uncles, cousins, friends etc (already bad enough - now formalized) then you a…

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    Comment #39702706

    I thought it was just me - I even tried different mobile browsers. You’d think before you wrote a whole article about how bad Wikipedia is you’d at least make your site work on mob…

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    Comment #39348413

    Welp - messed up the line breaks - hope that made sense.

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    Comment #39348402

    > Kinda. We were open to believing in God. But the start of our journey was just realizing the secular world had nothing to offer us. I'm curious how you interprete "secular"? Caus…

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    Comment #39337187

    What’re you talking about? We’re discussing how in this particular case it would be trivial for the police department to see that this house has been SWATed 47 (!) times, which obv…

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    Comment #38677010

    I’m sorry - but if you ARE psychotic this is exactly what you would believe. I don’t know you at all so sorry for assuming, but I think you need to listen to your family and get so…

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    Comment #38676809

    Thanks for this - looks great. Do you have any other recommendations? Videos, blogs, etc?

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    Comment #37755362

    Location: Ontario (Canada) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, GCP, Postgres / MySQL, React, Node, Writing, Engineering Manager, Perl, Rails, etc Resume: http…

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    Comment #36546493

    Hack is great.