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Comment #36990362
Because I don't want to hear about personal stories? How is that related? I do very much want to know how code works. It's the very core of my argument.
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Comment #36987686
It's full of "fix" or "fix typo" or "update blah.c"... tiny commits straight to the master branch without CI. Anyway, I really don't care about the past in this way. A simple "acco…
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Comment #36986522
> They're hard not to love. I often search for a clearcut answer to a technical question and I'm met with a 2 hour history lesson into a decade of company politics and failed repla…
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Comment #36986393
By switching to a proprietary license for your proprietary product. If we call things by their names, it's not surprising at all and actually makes solving the situation much easie…
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Comment #36985901
> I found out that just being better than yourself takes you a long long way. That resonates with me. There is a saying where I'm from that says "most people are just kicking dirt"…
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Comment #36985698
I personally care about how it looks. The facism mention is a huge leap, isn't it?
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Ask HN: Gmail alternative for the lazy activist?
I like Gmail and have very few complaints about it as a user. I don't like Google, the company, and if there is an easy option to migrate to that will cause me the least usability …
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Comment #36980383
How about tracking licenses or subscriptions sold and show that to investors?
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Comment #36972673
Riley gave an hour-long presentation on his prompt engineering work at Scale AI and the company's CEO said it didn't seem useful?
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Comment #36971152
To me, the simple models might not cross the boundary where LLMs start to be useful versus, say, a fixed menu with choices in a helpdesk app. It's a paradox because, to really feel…
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Comment #36970878
Airports and taxis here have agreements where the airport gives them a fixed location in front of the exit. Just makes my point about the taxi mafia. But then, does that happen any…
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Comment #36970864
Not here. A ride that costs me 18-20 with Uber will be a 40-50 taxi ride.
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Comment #36958891
You're comparing apples to oranges. Should I complain that to drill oil I need hundreds of millions of dollars to even start? Your VPS example was doing barely any computation. You…
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Comment #36957907
> many of us will revert back to traditional taxis. When hell freezes maybe? Why would I do business with the local taxi mafia when these are the same cars, same drivers, poor or n…
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Comment #36957690
Copy and paste of a previous article discussed here a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36500448 EDIT: And copied and pasted here too: https://news.ycombinator.com/it…
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Comment #36955739
It's nice to have alternatives and maybe I have Stockholm Syndrome about this topic, but isn't git's complexity inherent to the area?
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Comment #36955633
That's me! https://imgur.com/a/Zbv5da8
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Comment #36951608
Automattic does this. https://automattic.com/how-we-hire/
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Comment #36943778
I have intrisic motivation, I just like what I work with and like to do a good job. I often have high standards for my work. What changed? It's very tiresome to swim against the cu…
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Comment #36943600
Supposedly it needs some name (any name) for the userID so I don't think so. You can add a domain that points to your internal IPs though.
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Comment #36943405
I've been in this situation at a couple of companies. Very prolific in the first year, only to burn out. At my new job, I'm taking it easy.
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Comment #36943284
I've met people running ZFS on Linux quite reliably this days, bar Oracle.