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martypitt

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About martypitt

Software dev, working on Orbital (https://orbitalhq.com) and Taxi (https://taxilang.org)

Happy to chat. Ping me on marty [at] orbitalhq dot com

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    Comment #48932888

    FYI - I tried visiting your site. In Chrome (tested in Incognito as well), I get a massive white space at the top, with a vertical scroll. If I scroll far enough, I see the site. W…

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    Comment #48319785

    Any background / context around what the Chicory author means in this comment? > We'll consider merging in changes that make sense from Endive, but under the stewardship of the [By…

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    Comment #48196220

    I wonder if they'll talk about AI?

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    Comment #48145136

    I don't have any LSP's hooked up to CC yet (going to fix that today), or particularly sophisticated CLAUDE.md files. So, if I've read this post correctly, that means that CC is nav…

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    Comment #48063143

    Impressive benchmarks!

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    Comment #48021701

    > Rebuilding Coinbase as an intelligence, with humans around the edge aligning it. Oof. That smacks of hubris and valley-buzzwordism. > Leaders will own much more, with as many as …

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    Comment #47874646

    OT - but Bhatti looks really cool! Well done!

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    Comment #47700572

    I can see you're A/B testing some different hero text. I got: > Write a config, not a conversation Which I found let me wondering - "What is this thing?" I refreshed a few times to…

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    Comment #47647315

    For one, OpenScreen supports Linux, whereas Cap doesn't. I appreciate it's small minority that appeals to, it's just that I'm in it.

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    Comment #46808397

    I've lived in London for a decade, and feel incredibly lucky to have access to the transit here - having lived in Aus, NZ and Canada previously. It's not perfect. It's late sometim…

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    Comment #46613218

    This is a really great post - and what they've built here is very impressive. I wonder if we're at the point where the cost of building and maintaining this yourselves (assisted wi…

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    Comment #46613058

    Interestingly, Devin lists Ramp (the OP) as a customer on their front page. Surprised they need both.

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    Comment #46526537

    Dell have announced the return of XPS. Fairly limited specs available so far, but more are coming, including a developer edition - which ships with Ubuntu 24.10. Current configs ar…

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    Comment #46230113

    > ... the company which made the ad, defended its use of AI in a post on LinkedIn > “It’s never about replacing craft, it’s about expanding the toolbox. The vision, the taste, the …

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    Comment #46122493

    Cool idea. Just a heads-up that the Demo link at the bottom of the page leads to a 403.

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    Comment #46047791

    > As long as you have Pricing on your website your product is not open source in the true spirit of open sourceness. It's an MIT license. That IS open source. If they have a commer…

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    Comment #46047702

    It's not really confusing at all. Content under backend/ee requires a license, everything else is MIT Expat. Pretty standard stuff. > Can you call it open source if you need a subs…

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    Comment #45926403

    Thanks! I've finished up there now, so this is purely retrospective. For them - the workaround (sadly) was -- a lack of testing. I was really surprised that in a heavily regulated …

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    Comment #45926307

    The block was not for docker license cost reasons - it was part compliance, and part an issue with the underlying VDI VM they were using. The onshore team were able to use Docker, …

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    Ask HN: How common is banning Docker?

    I was doing some client work recently at a bank, where most of their engineering is offshored one of the big offshore companies. The offshore team had to access everything via virt…

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    Comment #45873638

    That's not what happened here. The BBC edited footage to make it appear that Trump said something he didn't in the leadup to the Jan-6 riots. My personal biases are pretty strongly…