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mikesurowiec

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About mikesurowiec

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    From the full announcement > The new classifier also comes at the cost of flagging benign requests more often during routine coding and debugging tasks. As with all our safeguards,…

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    Comment #48506988

    When I saw this, I thought it was a paid advertisement on HN. yuck. At least when other companies do the jobs post it always includes "is hiring" to make it clear what it's for.

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    Comment #46639588

    I worked on docs at GitHub which are open source, synced to an internal repo, and deployed on internal infra. I recall jumping through many hoops to make it work safely. These were…

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    Comment #43930117

    Thanks for pointing out Parcel RSC. I just read through the docs and they do a great job of explaining RSCs from a place I can understand. In contrast to NextJS where it’s unclear …

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    Comment #43164314

    I expect data centers will become more expensive precisely because everyone is building at the same time. Supply chain crunch

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    Comment #42822047

    I’ve seen people spin Results in their favor within a company, where you can validate them, but for interviews it seems nearly impossible to validate. Does anyone have techniques f…

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    Comment #42312928

    You're absolutely right, apologies!

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    Comment #42310539

    A rough idea of the price differences... Per 1k tokens Input | Output Amazon Nova Micro: $0.000035 | $0.00014 Amazon Nova Lite: $0.00006 | $0.00024 Amazon Nova Pro: $0.0008 | $0.00…

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    Comment #41217141

    Is this the same reason you wouldn’t pick up trash on the floor?

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    Comment #40483026

    Relative speed difference is another key factor — arguably more important than absolute speed — but is more difficult to regulate. When traffic on the highway is near a standstill …

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    Comment #36909148

    The post states "they used Cap’n Proto before they hired me"

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    Comment #35255492

    If you're interested in learning more the term to search is "takt-time planning", specifically as it relates to lean construction methodology rather than manufacturing. https://en.…

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    Comment #30224066

    I really enjoyed this, thanks for sharing. My takeaway is don't be afraid to put an unreasonable amount of time towards something. It reminds me of PG's essay "The Bus Ticket Theor…

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    Comment #15298943

    We're also using a fork of gifted chat; pretty much use it for the layout measuring and the inverted scroll view. Hoping to move to FlatList at some point!

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    Comment #15294338

    My team has been working on our app for 1.5 years now and of all the technical choices we've made, React Native is probably our favorite. It's taken us through the prototyping stag…

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    Comment #4061651

    instead of the color (which personally I like), you could use numbers, so the first person who replies is #1, next is #2, and they re-use that number for the extent of that thread.…

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    Comment #3765749

    Hey, glad you found the blog. That's actually required by the class; we turn in assignments in the form of blog posts. So you'll see customer discovery interviews, our hypothesis f…

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    Comment #3765742

    The funny thing is there's actually only one advert on the page (far left). The other things are informational flyers so people know what's happening around campus. I guess we bett…

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    Comment #3764450

    Thanks, I appreciate it! We'll be iterating as fast as we can.

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    Product in 2 weeks. Profitable by 16.

    Entrepreneurship at JMU is easily the best class I have ever taken. In two weeks, I had to build a functional product. By the end of the semester we have to make $200 PROFIT to get…

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    Comment #2419623

    Wow, very impressive! I will definitely be trying this out. It reminded me of my discrete mathematics class, so now I'm wondering if there are any other cool principles that can be…