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anself

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About anself

Coder, parent, co-founder.

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    Comment #49043080

    Who ever said coding is solved??

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    Comment #49037646

    I agree, don't pre-emptively put too much control over your agents. But they do need guidelines and guardrails. All of the constraints I've added on my agents, I've added because w…

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    Comment #45823172

    Pessimists are going to read this and call BS

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    Comment #45413841

    The 100m / 10k analogy is fantastic, but the reality is even worse. Let’s say you expect a candidate to stay for average five years. That’s about 1200 working days. If you get to i…

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    Comment #45313205

    Came here to say this! So many ways to parse it. But the key issue was not knowing that “pregnancy-test frogs” was the central concept. Without that, the headline is so confusing… …

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    Comment #43994402

    Too much developers relying on bloatware, not enough “implement it yourself” because in reality every hash map doves a unique problem that a Palin hash map is not necessarily suite…

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    Comment #43943417

    You need at least one or two somewhat disagreeable folks in a team. Because without this, groupthink emerges, teams have too much inertia, they follow the assumed norm instead of c…

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    Comment #43943394

    Agree - but The Goal (Eliyahu Goldratt) is a rare exception to this. It’s written as a novel but actually contains valuable and counterintuitive lessons about optimizing for effici…

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    Comment #43892688

    Agree, it's not testing. The problem is here: "In a typical testing workflow, you write some basic tests to check the core functionality. When a bug inevitably shows up—usually aft…

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    Comment #43789081

    I don’t think there’s zero demand recommendation apps, a lot of founders choose this because it’s a problem they want to solve for themselves, and there are a few success stories o…

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    Comment #43789042

    Is there a way to consume this in text instead? Video is far too slow and cumbersome and requires headphones

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    Comment #42838025

    Having worked in banking for many years (no longer), I can say with confidence, the big banks have a giant moat: regulation. They want to be heavily regulated so that new upstart c…

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    Comment #41300355

    Aren’t “utterly toxic” and “scammer” kinda the same thing? The only difference is the intention, and does that really matter?

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    Comment #40616722

    Where did the wastewater go before the first rodwell was finished?