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samat

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About samat

quality custom web/backend/mobile development https://fans.dev

temp CTO available for hire & consulting

ex-CTO for Meduza.io, the most popular independent Russian news media outlet.

ex-CTO at pure.app - anonymous dating app.

ex-CTO at RAWG.io. Largest video game database in the world, personal profiles, game recommendations, etc.

former Article19.org fellow

Now in Riga, Latvia

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/samat; my proof: https://keybase.io/samat/sigs/_Eq502TOSAu1YnEMSqZVtHHpYUoGbbgDH3xsLJncKUo ]

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49203863

    I stopped using github for anything but git backups latest server i set up is simply a bare repo + hooks to make a local deploy after running tests and shit super easy to set up ha…

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    Comment #48738855

    You lack context

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    Comment #48717209

    I would have never heard about Negus-Fancey and Wright, but now I have! Streisand at its finest.

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    Comment #48692447

    Built in multi user capability is so enticing

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    Comment #48692343

    Article confuses open source models with open weights models. Not the same thing. It’s used right in the articles body, but title is misleading.

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    Comment #48674013

    Real politics is 1% versus everyone. Mortgage crisis, financial bailout, inflation, taxing of labor and not the assets and assets capture by tiny percent of the population — see wh…

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    Comment #48540287

    You are not alone For the younger generation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Compiled_HTML_Help

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    Comment #48521645

    I feel so sorry for Arabs now, just read that paragraph about everyday experience of trying to write English-Arabic text in the mail or any other editor. > I have watched senior en…

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    Comment #48521007

    Steve Jobs would have fired a lot of people for this :)

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    Comment #48396978

    I am yet to see that ‘companies with great ideas which simply cannot afford those very expensive developers’. For the most, issue is not programmer costs. Mostly it’s inability to …

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    Comment #48355898

    Nowadays a lot of web servers are written in js, for better or worse

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    Comment #48338549

    Is this news now? AP of all places

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    Comment #48338542

    It started well, and then he is suddenly sick because fellow member of the drama group made a poster using AI without consulting him (her?) Anyways, people looking for drama will f…

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    Comment #48305662

    Language is the house of the being I believe you are using the wrong language > some institutional sucker will buy They are committing fraud in the high trust society. Literally su…

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    Comment #48290333

    Reminded me of the trucks which truck the airliners in the airports Searched for it, they are called Towbarless (TBL) Tugs, they go under the nose of plane and lift the front wheel…

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    Comment #48263901

    And tables with comparisons! Nobody makes a table by hand if it’s not packed with value. Tables in this article are not

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    Comment #48263823

    And many others. I felt it too And it’s a good contrast with ‘just fcking use Go’ article he linked. Go article is much more human. I love that and would choose a human centered la…

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    Comment #48241153

    This kids don't know what x86 is

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    Comment #48240793

    Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48230001

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    Comment #48236267

    I wish there were a media with articles like this

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    Comment #48229346

    Yeah, thank you Google for the heads up, will look for alternatives (tbh already abandoned Google long time ago, need to find a maps alternative with public transport and working h…

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    Comment #48229220

    Tragedy of the commons

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    Comment #48218019

    Still burned they did not ship winFS then

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    Comment #47984703

    Why oh why do you use AI to write articles? ‘This is the bit that gets lost.’ as a start of the paragraph, and then the very next sentence parroting the chapters title. 3 sentences…

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    Comment #47249009

    I ended up downgrading to Sequoia. Day and night difference! My air m2 16GB is snappy again! And settings app does actually work!