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Yeah, pinning dependencies is very similar to vendoring or cloning them. By cloning, you get to know the code better and how it is structured, plus you cherry pick only the feature…

It makes me wonder if large engineering organizations are going to splinter. The coordination costs are getting, proportionally, much larger than they used to. When I left my corpo…

I really don't like how the payment plans work with the providers right now. I feel this pressure to use all my tokens for the week, often just "wasting" them. But also, I want to …

Vendor your dependencies, clone or port them where needed, and freeze them. Most good packages these days do not have a deep dependency tree, and we should stop using the ones that…

I heard from someone, somewhere, that coffee and free wifi may be the biggest economic value driver of all.

What aspects or use cases of crypto do you find important?

Yeah, it's appropriately ironic that these things were supposed to give power to the people (excluding the private jets), but power has become consolidated to those who have the me…

It's no longer a boom (and yes, AI is probably far worse at this point) And proof of stake consumes less energy, but still significant.

Additionally, a question for you: I don't have experience in finance. Do you think this idea of having a settlement period for crypto transactions could work?

Ha. That's cynically hilarious.

The carbon emission problem with crypto currency and AI is analogous to the oil and gas industry. When you boil it down to first principles, we are extracting resources from the Ea…

Ha, yeah. So, maybe a stretch here. I'm thinking of use cases like distributed domain name lookup systems, identification systems, social networks.

I'd be really curious to know if this could be use case for AI code generation tools using speech recognition. I don't know of any, but this could be very interesting.

Don't get me wrong, block chain has some wonderful applications. But at some point, crypto currencies veered off the idealistic track. Let's spare ourselves the analogies of crypto…

I was part of this discussion in 2009-2012, and was curious if it was still out there. It is! It's fascinating to take dig stuff up like this and replay it, knowing what we know no…

Learn to love JavaScript. Then you'll always have fun building side projects. Sounds snarky, but I'm serious. You can build anything with it, and it can be fun to use too.

To really become valuable in your role you need to leverage your experience and skills to become a force multiplier (as mentioned several other places in this thread). There is som…

Copilot may be one of the most valuable early use cases for chat AI. I've been brushing off AI as overhyped, but this is very compelling. I believe the real crux of software engine…

Within the startup scene / indie hacker movement there is plenty of discussion about raising money (or not), marketing, building, hiring, etc. But I don't see much about the legal …

I’ve been recreating in the mountains for a few decades now, some of it pretty serious. Honestly, nothing has taught me more respect for life than being challenged in the mountains…

Looking through the comments on this post, it's no surprise that many HN readers are doing the same. A self selected audience, I guess ;-) Still, it has been fun, and rewarding. I …

> There is a ton of practical stuff written in this general area if you search for "mind mapping" or "zettelkasten" (links below). I think sometimes we can overweight the impact of…