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paulddraper

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About paulddraper

Father of three.

CTO at Redo.

Co-founder of Rivet Health.

Formerly Lucid Software

https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-draper/

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    Comment #49222044

    I assume you got the email about them increasing prices "significantly" soon (but no hint on what significantly means).

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    Comment #49186427

    Wait until you have to exit the video call because you haven't yet granted screenshare permissions to the current app, and it needs a restart.

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    Comment #49176579

    > ... in the US Dallas in the United States.

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    Comment #49173607

    Genealogy apps, e.g. Ancestry.com

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    Comment #49159196

    But you understand that if it were required, everyplace that doesn’t specify today, would slap allergens on the whole menu.

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    Comment #49156182

    > “I asked Claude what happened, and it spit out this 300 line response. Can you read it for me and see if it’s right?” It’s the equivalent of choosing words from a conversation an…

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    Comment #49156129

    While it’s true Unicode pushes the boundaries of “plain text” having a consistent font face, font size, font weight, letter spacing, font color, text wrapping, etc is good. I don’t…

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    Comment #49149274

    Pelicans don't ride bicycles. It's physically impossible. The problem is to draw it in the least disturbing way possible.

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    Comment #49147499

    Because the title appears next to a bunch of other titles. It should be consistent, or else compromise browsing. The content has no such situation.

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    Comment #49138926

    Yeah, I was reading along but the date 2010 surprised me. In reality, you could probably put any date in there and it would work.

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    Comment #49138144

    This had nothing to do with Collatz and everything to do with a Lean bug. The proof was not actually a proof at all, because it was unsound (despite Lean admitting the proof).

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    Comment #49135382

    Me too. What does a reasoning program look like and why is matrix multiplication not that?

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    Comment #49127844

    Yes, more common is Manager // interface ManagerImpl // class

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    Comment #49127837

    Yeah, Ruby code bases are generally harder to maintain than Java ones.

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    Comment #49124254

    The current title says "Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI." This is wrong on almost every count. 1. The numbers are by milestone not …

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    Comment #49110469

    > Despite its prominence, for over 20 years almost nobody has used this approach. Why is that? There is one highly successful use of REST: the World Wide Web. The Web/Web browsers …

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    Comment #49110396

    This is an awkward read, the result of trying to convey an idea while couched in other language. That idea being that AI is less important than humans.

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    Comment #49093702

    > You’re suggesting aligning to an inherently and deliberately changeable presentation. Yes, you have understood the proposal.

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    Comment #49092343

    So it drained $5? Can’t speak to the results, but the cost isn’t high.

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    Comment #49092321

    Well, the idea here is “things that look like buttons do page navigation.” And the proposal is that we should more closely align the presentation and function. You are correct that…

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    Comment #49070219

    Tools are (can be) cheap. An electric drill from Harbor Freight costs as much as breakfast from Dennys. You going to pass it on to your kids? No. But maybe you don’t need to.

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    Comment #49064686

    Just imagine how bad it would be if we hadn't.

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    Comment #49064455

    Well said.

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    Comment #49061464

    > This sounds like some kind of corruption going on, where they're probably paying consultants stupid amounts of money Guaranteed