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prakashn27

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About prakashn27

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    Comment #48432677

    This is why hn is the best. First comment helps to decide if we need to read the article or not .

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    Comment #48431411

    Very true. If a PR has 1000 lines I would check only a handful full of them and leave the rest for test suit .

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    Comment #48292125

    I always check hn comments before viewing the article . The comments alone saved me lot of time for not viewing the article

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    Comment #47759290

    Meta has something similar to this using mercurial. It was awesome.

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    Tell HN: No more emoji in my LinkedIn name

    I have an emoji in my name, to basically see who is using the LinkedIn sales manager to contact me vs who genuinely contact me. With latest LinkedIn updates you cannot have emoji i…

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    Comment #46839987

    Ex-WhatsApp engineer here. WhatsApp team makes so much effort to make this end to end encrypted messages possible. From the time I worked I know for sure it is not possible to read…

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    Comment #46631642

    I have not fired a technical writer, but writing documentation that understands and maintains users focus is hard even with llm. I am trying to write documentation for my start up …

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    Comment #46631561

    I feel local rag system , slows down my computer (I got M1 Pro 32 GB) So I use hosted one to prevent this. My business use vector db, so created a new db to vectorize and host my k…

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    Comment #46600611

    The extent people go with cheating interviews. What happens after you pass by cheating? The reason they have rigorous interview is because the company moves at a different phase. Y…

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    Comment #46335716

    That makes sense. Safari is so smooth now in iOS. Moved from Firefox.

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    Comment #46268381

    Working on Ai agent (not chatbot) for customer support with automatic human handoff to Slack( in future for Zendesk, Teams, Jira)

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    Comment #45872195

    Focusing on creating a omnichannel ai-powered support platform on Slack.

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    Comment #45776196

    i onboarded on planetscale when it was in free tier. Then they charged 40$. Last year they increase the pricing again. they attract users and increase the pricing. that is the game…

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    Comment #45511162

    And you forgot the js library that lets you check if the number is odd https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-odd Funny enough there is another library which checks if it is even https:/…

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    Comment #44863176

    I feel it is hyped product oversold to people who cannot told. When we developers tell them that it cannot do as much as you expect, they think that we are afraid of loosing our jo…

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    Comment #44565137

    I writing this just after the night end llm cannot even replace to using Trans i18n react component if it is not in context of the file. We are still far from agi

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    Comment #44103229

    100% true.

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    Comment #43984249

    How does this work? Does all files that I upload are in context or do you use rag?

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    Comment #43964220

    Too much swearing and I lost the context midway

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    Comment #43772073

    This is not an official API, this is from third party. stop promoting appfire products as official api.

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    Comment #43649869

    What happened to the good old timer. 250$ is steep for a timer.

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    Comment #43581621

    What is the use of this opensurce when you have a strict license ?

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    Comment #43534394

    Working on “AI automations for Jira” to help Jira admins create automation scripts using AI. - secure and complaint as it runs on Atlassian - easy to create automation as AI does t…

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    Comment #42788937

    wifey always wins. ;)

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    Comment #42757179

    Ex-meta engineer here. I miss their internal GitHub which is a mercurial fork. They have so many awesome features like layered PRs. That is something I have not seen anywhere .