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generalpf

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    Comment #48763530

    The magic of distillation!

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    Comment #48733154

    Ex-PagerDuty here. Without weighing in on the criticisms of pricing and innovation with the product, I will say that the value of PagerDuty is its reliability in notifying you when…

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    Comment #48676881

    16 MB RAM required, 32 MB RAM recommended... how refreshing! Great work.

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    Comment #48555043

    Cursor Remote Agents are important to our AI orchestration layer. It's possible that Claude can do this directly but Cursor Remote Agents made this laughably easy.

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    Comment #48282634

    You can get any Uber driver to do it for you if you offer to buy them food too and do it off the books.

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    Comment #48282566

    He is, but he's also describing reality.

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    Comment #48074805

    I just got a Docusign and it didn't work in Firefox, I had to use Chrome. That's a huge blow right there. (I sent negative feedback about this to Docusign.)

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    Comment #47902189

    >There'll probably be a startup tomorrow that digests user input and boils out the noise to provide a robust enough signal to guide some monitoring agent, and it'll help some cases…

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    Comment #47805840

    Come on now, you're going to need Xcode at some point during development.

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    Comment #47156389

    By default on a Mac, "smart quotes" is enabled that turns "" into “”. I don't think that's a sign of an LLM. I believe Microsoft Word on all platforms does this too.

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    Comment #47073481

    Swift doesn't use a garbage collector.

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    Comment #46098967

    This is the course I used online to learn Objective-C and UIKit to make iOS applications, and now I am a Staff iOS Engineer. Nice to see him still doing this.

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    Comment #45932234

    Mac and Dennis: Manhunters ( It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia S04E01)

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    Comment #45850625

    It doesn't matter what Steve Jobs would or wouldn't do, Tim Cook took Apple to a $3T company and that's where we are.

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    Comment #45427017

    Another Forbes 30 under 30!

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    Comment #45105177

    You don't need this library, it's just an `AlertDialog` wrapper with a check in `SharedPreferences`. It's not particularly well-written.

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    Comment #44889114

    Referencing Marc Benioff making bold claims about AI isn't much evidence, he's pulling these numbers out of thin air. Despite claiming they won't hire software engineers in 2025, t…

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    Comment #44428657

    When did this guy stop writing about engineering and start running a tech gossip rag?

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    Comment #43932316

    Nice to see PagerDuty mentioned here. I was on the mobile team at PagerDury that battled to get the entitlement to use Critical Notifications in the app. We were refused multiple t…

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    Comment #43766800

    Who would want to work on this thing? It hasn't been a standard part of Windows for at least a decade.

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    Comment #43570833

    It's been argued a lot that such a move would cause a good portion of American billionaires to just pack up and move to another country. Rich people are mobile in a way that poor p…

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    Comment #43541872

    Forbes 30 Under 30!

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    Comment #42021864

    BuddyBuild was acquired by Apple and used for their server CI platform, almost immediately cutting off Android support. That was a shame because it was a great platform for Android…

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    Comment #42004559

    “Shoot that guy” “Ok” Super valuable stuff.