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It's best not to think of BigCentralThing as your "partner". They're just the big central thing that lists things. They have their own motivations that don't matter to you, so long…

Pretend the SPOT is youtube, for an example. Upload your video there, then drop a link to (any variation of) the url into this text field. A quick import script runs, and now we ha…

I haven't seen this in practice. For my site, roughly 100% of the new additions to our database come from people climbing a route that's in the Big Database that we just don't know…

It sounds like the real issue is the "stable ids" one. You need a Single Point of Truth that matches up stretches of waterway with an ID that won't change. You can then sprinkle .i…

No. I’m expecting everyone to answer direct questions that they are the only one who can answer by thinking up the answer with their own brain then writing or speaking that.

Yeah, it's tough because to be the Single Point of Truth, you'd need to be the List of Parking Places in the Netherlands, not just the accessible ones that you care about. You migh…

I just can’t understand why this is not a fireable offense. Like, I can see getting a strong warning the first time somebody notices you do this, then if you persist you’d have to …

I run a website that's in a similar situation, and it sounds like the author is close to the correct solution, but needs to take things one step further: There needs to be a Single…

“Logout buttons must be buttons because they trigger unsafe requests” But this is just more of the pedantic developer nonsense that everyone is complaining about here. I’ve built t…

Actually, for me, being llm generated makes this more impressive because it marks the first real world example of a genuine new product built with ai that I have ever seen. For 6 y…

Can we save everybody having to put “I know about ChatGPT, but I’m asking for advice from an actual human who has experience with this so please refrain from answering if you’re no…

> We’ve just got this wild culture where everyone puts such a premium on their own time but now doesn’t value anyone else’s My favorite example of this is dropping a random acronym…

For what it’s worth, I recently retired from a 30 year career as a developer and while I’m aware of all three of those things, I’ve never used any of them in or out of work. And I’…

I had to flag this article for violating HN's policy against submitting things written by AI. Which is a shame, because the premise is intriguing. But it's pretty rude to expect ev…

I don’t think this is about fairness so much as a wish that developers would look out for their own self interest just a tiny bit. We all get the full-court open source brainwashin…

I’ve had this happen a few times in the past, back when you’d fire your expensive people and replace them with cheap human labour instead of AI, so I have a word of advice. Be sure…

I don’t get it. Why did you title your hn submission after a feature that doesn’t exist? Why not use that space to say something that your thing actually does? It’d save everyone a…

I tried your monsterwriter site (nice looking app, by the way), and logged in with google. I don't see any option to "control where my data is stored". As far as I can tell as an e…

Yeah, you definitely should have linked to that instead of a Github repo (or copied the text across to the repo readme). The copy is still pretty focused on the Developer experienc…

Sounds cool, but you never got around to explaining how “users control where their data is stored “, which is odd because that’s the title of your post. So if I’m a user of an app …

Because people move to different countries. There's no way to update the billing address of my US bank to a foreign address. My UK bank is in the address of my house there. My Fren…

It's amazing that companies still can't handle the concept of somebody moving to a different country but still using a credit card from their original country. I spent two days on …

I didn’t get to use any of the cool terms for what I was doing though. FIRE and Digital Nomadding hadn’t been invented yet.

The problem was that every time I stopped contracting for somebody, they stopped sending me money. Building software products fixed that: https://expatsoftware.com/articles/guy-on-…