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I remember this period of Google very vividly, it felt absolutely surreal to see everything about the company immediately leaked to the press and getting insane media coverage. You…

They'll all turn in to "the managerial class". That's the higher order function that requires high judgement, low frequency work (unlike developers, data entry, designers, BDRs, co…

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Greptile is an awesome product, not sure where the scam is there

Afaik, Niagra has all of that. My favorite aspect of it is that I can remove all text and see 95% of the wall paper at all times.

I've been using Niagara for a few years and I love it.

Hi HN, This project came out of combining a few of my hobbies: craps, mobile development, vibe coding, and coding directly from my phone. I built the entire app using only: Termux …

Building is so much fun, probably my #1 favorite thing to do, but a bad company culture can ruin it. I love being a CTO so I can build and set the culture that keeps it fun.

Yes, the InfoSec advantages of using RDS are very real, especially in B2B Enterprise SaaS.

Agreed, specifically for the file structure use-case, we were able to solve this with ltree.

In software engineering, "senior" or not usually means you can be trusted to take on certain problems vs. others. In US primary school (an industry I've never worked in), this migh…

Remember this when you're thinking about the average commenter's opinion on anything technical.

Article about smartphones being bad? Right to the top. Generic comment that would fit in the comment section of any of those articles? Right to the top. I get baited into reading t…

This has been an interesting realization for me, seeing the LLM well poisoned by its poor understanding of hooks and effects has opened my eyes up to how much the average developer…

2 data points and you're drawing a conclusion about an entire graduating class? For all we know, you might be experiencing a reality that you're company isn't able to attract great…

Why doesn't LISTEN/NOTIFY work with connection poolers?

I'm not an accountant, but as I understand it, you don't pay taxes on profits, but on revenue. So previously, some 20% of all revenue would be owned as corporate income tax, and st…

Communication doesn't scale and there are many examples of that. It's not possible to convey complex topics to a large audience, well, at all times. The audience has to do some wor…

The poor support for types in VS Code has always been a blocker for me adopting it vs. Jetbrains, where types and the intellisense are much easier to jump between.

The internet taught us long ago that novel thoughts are extremely uncommon. Most people likely don't have any novel thoughts their entire lives.

You need a DUNS number for iOS too, fwiw

Been there and done many of the things you described, have a family today and I still love being a founder and working very long weeks. I know not everyone is like this though. The…

More specifically, using AI bots that can write functions, sometimes entire classes, refactor code, etc. GitHub copilot which is mostly single line completions isn't "vibe coding".…

It's easier to identify women's fashion among millennials imo: 2000's: jeans 2010's: leggings 2020's: not those