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shane_b

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    Comment #36154570

    I don’t know where people are getting such low numbers. I’ve been a developer for 10 years. I care a lot about optimizing my workflow. When copilot was released, I’d say I got a 15…

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    Comment #35878666

    the history of exercise is just living. not that long ago, just living required constant movement. in my own childhood i had to do a ton of labor that was just living, not a job.

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    Comment #35864417

    this is very good library that i was a little nervous about at first but i used it to build a custom command line tool for my business and it’s helped so much. it’s also very easy …

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    Comment #32839869

    there’s a zero percent chance people will be laid off and be happy. same with seeing people be laid off. there is no right thing to say

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    Comment #32839823

    CEOs have feelings…

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    Comment #32358016

    they traded innocence for humility and tolerance

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    Comment #30578490

    i like your idea of improving effectiveness population level data of social media is vulnerable to abuse by gov. social media is a poor input and gov will exploit ambiguity to thei…

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    Comment #30573775

    > I'd say very little good can come from this. > if the concern is abuse not my intent, OP. the comment i replied to suggested gov instead. i made a comment about gov there was as …

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    Comment #30571518

    i don’t think building your own framework is a good idea. react still has plenty of possible patterns to decide between even after making the decision to use it. a team should have…

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    Comment #30570091

    the benefits of vanilla implementation fix the problems that come with lack of training. like not understanding the low level api training means so many things but in general, if i…

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    Comment #30570030

    > Isn't this exactly the same as bringing in a new developer to work on your custom web app build that does everything differently to everyone else? he has to learn your strategies…

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    Comment #30569197

    i assume this is sarcasm which is unhelpful. the original claim was to trust no one. my comment was the government should also not be trusted. people put on such a front on social …

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    Comment #30568577

    if the concern is abuse, i wouldn’t give it to gov

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    Comment #30547315

    these are interesting, thanks for sharing i'm in favor of getting rid of weapons. if nuclear power is ubiquitous, i don't know how that would be possible though.

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    Comment #30547197

    > I think it's a by-definition thing at this point, that if a nuclear war occurs it will be due to irrational actors. The only rational thing to do with nukes is not use them. > Th…

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    Comment #30546178

    this thread is full of hypotheticals and blaming irrational actors for fear of nukes. the only country to drop nukes on enemies is the US. our fear of enemies using nukes has set u…

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    Comment #30441589

    I wrote about this https://shaneburkhart.com/i/naive-naive-refactor

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    Comment #30441567

    I wish I could use the mobile app before buying to see how it compares to notion. the notion ios app crawls. no doubt i’d be a customer if it’s snappy. i’ve been thinking of buildi…

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    Comment #30352666

    Makes sense why they would fuzzy search. Not all users can be expected to know Google fu. So let mainstream use fuzzy and keep power user features. The big issue is power user supp…

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    Comment #30319198

    Fair, investments too. That’s a recent trend.

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    Comment #30319114

    Software businesses have one balance sheet item: cash.

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    Comment #30306930

    Exactly, great explanation

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    Comment #30306871

    The first time you implement, the default is to over abstract. The second time even more. By the third, you have a good enough idea of what you need to then build something robust.…

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    Comment #30303741

    Tobi the CEO likes it