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feifan
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About feifan
Building tools for developers to rapidly navigate, search, and edit code across repos and codebases that are too big to fit in your head @tanagram_. Previously @stripe.
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Comment #46776165
> Feedback helps, right. But if you've got a problem where a simple, contained feedback loop isn't that easy to build, the only source of feedback is yourself. And that's when you …
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Comment #46536925
Cultural reflex probably; lentils and tofu are displeasurable to most Americans
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Comment #45786865
this assumes the application is hosted as SaaS, but if the application makes sense as a personal/"desktop" app, that likely wouldn't matter.
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Comment #43107538
Thanks Mahmoud! Does the code review aspect of this demo resonate more with you than the authoring part?
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Comment #43107515
Thanks! Getting all the possibly-relevant related code isn't too hard; the hard part is filtering down to what's relevant. So I think specific use cases (e.g. "how do I get from a …
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Comment #43031335
> The company has stated that if we do not prepay the taxes by March 15, 2025, the RSUs will be permanently forfeited Is it clear whether you'd forfeit your entire grant, or just s…
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Comment #43031310
Positioning/messaging matters a lot!
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Comment #43031260
I'd suspect some sort of economic factor, or sampling … e.g. just people with lower specs submitting and bringing down the average
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Comment #36261121
I read that sentence as saying someone came up with a cost estimate of $142.7b to clean up everything, and then there's a comparison to 3M's $53b market cap for scale/comparison.
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Comment #36222119
> Apps like Bear, Reeder, Anybox, Things 3, make switching devices seamless I think Apple's whole point is that they provide the APIs so that apps can do this themselves. Which, ye…
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Comment #36100334
Consider storing the data on Backblaze B2 ($0.005/GB/month) and serving content via Cloudflare (egress from B2 to Cloudflare is free through their Bandwidth Alliance). (No affiliat…
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Comment #35750006
I'm working on an app to browse a codebase as a list of constructs — classes, methods, etc. It matches how I think about code: as a database of named entities, in which the impleme…
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Comment #35389351
I've seen data showing ~70% recovery on a Model 3, but I also can't find the source :/
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Comment #35283423
The part that Siri is bad at will be commoditized — someone will open-source a GPT-4-level language model. And Apple's moat will be being able to run that on-device with all the at…
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Comment #34643463
A well-adjusted person should be able to signal some degree of confidence about what they're saying ("I know that…", "I think that…", "Maaaaaaybe…", etc). That's an anspect that Ch…
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Comment #34088788
Is your photo library on a spinning hard drive or USB drive? I had this problem before which the setup, and it went away when I moved my library to my internal SSD.
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Comment #33927901
I understand and partly agree with your sentiment, but "offsetting" technologies/components are all over the place. E.g. combustion engines also need mufflers, catalytic converters…
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Comment #33927111
Cost-per-mile is cheaper from electricity than from diesel, and it's expected to have lower maintenance costs too (fewer moving parts, no oil changes, etc)
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Comment #33927090
The displays have downward-facing cameras covering what looks like the blind spots next to the cab